remember when precolonial philippines had existing (and were known to respect) lgbtq structures and then the west came and told us that was wrong??? wonder whose fault it is ph became so homophobic after years under west colonization but go off i guess https://twitter.com/DerpJobi/status/1307025824642748417

i'm so mad at this jskfjdkd fuck u imagine my surprise when i read all about in school jskfjdkd even divorce was a thing in precolonial ph and these idiots were like, "you shouldn't do that" so we didn't!! and we still don't!!

so don't tell me the west is so fucking Great and so fucking Liberal and shame us SEA countries for not being in the same page right now!! remember whose fucking fault it is we're even here in the first place!!!

"but it's been years ago since that happened" i know and god as much as i want rights and visibility and just media where our struggles are being narrated properly for fellow lgbtq peers it's so hard to remove this stigma against us!!!

so this blew up and people have been messaging me about sources. i can't really find any of the papers i read in univ anymore but here are a few links that may be of help!! if you're an educator with expertise in gender & precolonial philippines +

please feel free to link your papers here too!! we would love to read on them!

[1] http://www.loveyourself.ph/2017/06/the-history-of-lgbtq-visibility-in.html?m=1 (they have really neat references!!)
[2] https://www.centerforbabaylanstudies.org/history 
[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/france_villarta_the_gender_fluid_history_of_the_philippines/footnotes?language=en

as for the gay gods/goddesses i am unfortunately not that familiar with them as of now!! i have to read more on that so thanks for pointing that out, too!!

aND woAAH saw some of the comments and apparently this is being teached at the jhs level na!!! what!! that's so cool!!! i only knew about this when i had to make a paper about precolonial ph. it's good to know younger people are starting to learn more about it now!!! :^D

taught* anw not @ me starting this tweet with "remember when" like we were alive during precolonial ph i'm sry