BLNC Facets: Edgy
- blncmag
- Jul 9
- 2 min read
BLNC Facets : Pride in Everyday
Edgy
PASIG
What is everyday life like as a queer person on your side of the country?
E: As a transwoman living in the Philippines, it's never been easy. Sure, people in this age may accept us, but not all. Some may treat and consider seeing us eye to eye as much as they see cis-women, but some have reservations.
Progress in this society is still a long way off, but I would put my heart on my sleeves and let my hopeful self believe; that someday, empowerment would overcome my fears of being true to my own skin. That for a woman like me and people like me, consciousness would leave my system and being seen equally would be possible. To not be tainted with any degrading remarks for embracing the woman I've become and still becoming.
Hoping that someday we get the equal rights that my brothers and sisters from the LGBTQIA+ community and I deserve. A woman like me can still hope.
What would you like Filipinos to know about the LGBTQIA+ community where you are?
E: I'll be holding their hands when I say that we're more than just their haircutters in their local salons. We're more than just entertainers at bars or the focal point of every joke or just being seen as entertainers at their favorite comedy bars. That the only fitting way for us to be represented in the media is by being the sass-mouthing best friend of their favorite protagonist in the story.
There's nothing wrong with all that, I just hope people won't box us like we're some kind of afterthought in their back burners. That some of us also want to be and do more and it won't make theirs less.
For the same reason we ask for equal rights; it won't make theirs any less. But rather would only make our society more unified and secured. To let everyone have a seat on the table.
Photographer: Wilmark Jolindon (https://www.instagram.com/thewilmark/)
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