2026 PQSC Poster Presentations

Poster Presentations

The following works have not been peer reviewed by the University of the Philippines Rainbow Research Hub or its project members. The views expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Hub or its project members.

Poster 01 – Fabulous and fluent: The use of gay Philippine English in drag performance

Poster 02 – Lalaki sa papel, gay ang puso: Understanding the lived experiences of gay parenting in Palawan

Poster 03 – Narratives of LGBTQ adults’ well-being after coming out

Poster 04 – A phenomenological study of transpinays’ lived experiences and perspectives in using feminizing hormone therapy in Cavite

Poster 05 – Coming out abroad: An autoethnographic journey of a Filipino transmasculine lesbian scholar in Japan

Poster 06 – Exploring guidance counselors’ approaches to addressing SOGIE-related concerns of adolescents

Poster 07 – Faith-driven peacebuilding: Navigating sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Philippines

Poster 08 – For queer or not for queer? Audience construction and text-paratext alignment in Pearl Next Door and Open Endings

Poster 09 – From dysphoria to ginhawa: Centering gender euphoria among transgender and gender nonconforming Filipinos

Poster 10 – “Ganyan dito sa Manila, girl”: The linguistic performativity of othering of provincial queens in selected episodes of Drag Race Philippines Season 3

Poster 11 – Gendered movements as “pedagogical placemarks”: Finding a/the place for gender and sexuality in Philippine rhetorical studies

Poster 12 – Identity, community, and movement: On trans history in the Philippines, 1960s – present

Poster 13 – Is love dead?; How self-identified queer high school students perceive romance and establish romantic relationships

Poster 14 – Living beyond the rainbow spectrum: The spirituality and gender fluidity of Filipino college students (basis for affirmative counseling approach)

Poster 15 – Exploring the social representations of mainstreaming drag culture

Poster 16 – Queer manghod and kuya-figure in original short fiction

Poster 17 – Rainbows across borders: Psychosocial support experiences and views of Ilocano lesbian and gay tagasalo working overseas

Poster 18 – Reclaiming the narratives: Reconstructing the existence of LGBTQIA+ in the philippine pre-colonial society through ancient shaman during the age of contact and Spanish colonization (10th to 19th century)

Poster 19 – Step by step or all at once? Comparing queer policy processes in Japan and the Philippines

Poster 20 – Structured chaos: Drag performances in the Philippines as resistance in the postmodern nihilistic world through Nietzschean Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy

Poster 21 – The construction of gay identities in/by the heteronormative culture industry: The case of Philippine commercial entertainment media

Poster 22 – The festive asexuality in Romantic Killer (2022) as a disruptor of otome amatonormativity and compulsory sexuality

Poster 23 – Transgender expressions, advocacies, and motivations in beauty pageantry

Poster 24 – Understanding minority stress: Heterosexist experiences and psychological distress among Filipino lesbians

Poster 25 – Zine/scene of desire: Puso(k) and the mobilization of queer erotica

Poster 26 – Kwentuhan as deliberative design: Reflections on designing community deliberations on anti-discrimination ordinance for LGBTQ+ citizens in the Philippines

Poster 27 – Resilient queer futures: Strategic and creative persistence in the Ateneo Libulan Circle 

Poster 28 – Kung bakit hindi nalilito si Lito / Why Lito is never confused

Poster 29 – The spectacle: A performance art piece on how a transgender Filipino bakla makes sense of gaze, exhibitions, and colonization

Poster 30 – Tying the space yet to come

Poster 31 – Kamo, kami, kita: Lived experiences of queer and trans youth SOGIESC advocates in Dipolog City

Poster 32 – Linus (they/them): Re-claiming queerness through a self-revelatory performance

Poster 33 – Slow research as epistemic justice: Implications for transgender health justice in the Philippines

Poster 34 – Pagsusuri sa queer na protestang sining at kultura ng mga food at peasant advocates

Poster 35 – Visibiliqueer! Application of queer space theory in designing a queer socio-cultural hub in Luneta Park using the phenomenological study of SOGIESC narratives

Poster 36 – Wish i could be part of your world: The queer coding in independent film

Poster 37 – Early Philippine cinema flyers as queer archives

Poster 38 – Impact of boys’ love genre on LGBTQIA+ representation

Poster 39 – The bakla and the bl: A thematic analysis of bakla narratives in the Filipino online BL series released during the Covid-19 pandemic

Poster 40 – Queering the mic: A phenomenological study on voice acting as a queer performative space among Filipino gender nonconforming voice actors