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"Aswang Transmedia" by Dr. Bliss Cua Lim
September 13, 2012 - 2:30pm. CMC Audi, UP Diliman
Aswang, a folkloric Philippine monster, is often conceptualized as a national symbol for monstrous asociality in the functionalist paradigms that dominate Philippine folklore. This paper opposes that conventional framing of aswang by exploring aswang accounts across various media in which the monster is not an asocial other; rather, aswang are relatives, friends, or sweethearts in the grips of supernatural transformation. These transmedial aswang raise questions of intimacy, unexpected monstrosity, and the permeable borders between the human and the nonhuman. Far from negating the social order, many accounts of aswang show them to be part of a decidedly queer social fabric themselves.
This paper weaves media-convergent retaso (fragments) drawn from several Filipino and Filipino American sources: nineteenth and twentieth century accounts of aswang and babaylanes, the transgender shamans they were often conflated with; feminist comics (Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons, 2002); a queer novel (Si Amapola sa 65 na Kabanata, 2011); a post-studio era horror film (Mga Bata Ng Lagim [Children of Terror], 1964); independent digital shorts (Bakasyon [The Visit], 2004; and Lola [Grandmother], 2010); and amateur video (Amabilis2, 2011).Naknang sandaang makatas na boobeyz ni Mebuyan, ang pechay ko'y bumubulwak sa galak, lumulukso-lukso at nagta-ta-tambling sa aspalto.
Ano kaya kung um-attend ako in Lilia Cuntapay drag?
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Queer Manila // Manila Contemporary // Aug 25
Martin Lorenzo de Mesa
Jason Moss
Valeria Cavestany
Enzo Camacho + Amy Lien
Agnes Arellano (+)
Maria Jeona (+)
Julie Tolentino + Maya Muñoz
Leeroy New
Jef Carnay
Valeria Cavestany
Christina Quisumbing Ramilo
Leo Abaya
Nagbasa ng tula si Danton.
Di ko nakunan lahat pati yung mga performance, pero meron pa ditey.
*Dala nung 7th photo: ditech ko nabasa dati ang Abuses ni Lingis, at itey ang Manila chapter.
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2012-08-03 23 notes
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2012-07-24 22 notes
Where fears are plumed like pheasants …
Where fears are plumed like pheasants, I, brittle, tenebrous man, inconsolable widow, immerse myself in doubt. Here, I find refuge: flaunting my trophy injuries, feasting what is forbidding in being. Little else is possible: a dictionary of the body in motion, a frenzy of private images against a background of massacres and shame. On this embrangled route, figureless space, the rest of the creatures. Torches flare up. Tousled frieze of desires.
– Maria Negroni, trans. Michelle Gil-Montero (via timeimmemorial)
(via timeimmemorial)
Source: catranslation.org
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