Tag: babaylan
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Episode 7: Performing Gender (and Gender Bending Icons)
A god of same-sex love. A bearded goddess of war and fertility. Gods in the form of genitalia. What can mythology and folk religion teach us about queerness in premodern Asia?
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Episode 6: The West – Savior or Demonizer?

If queerness was so prevalent in premodern Asia, when and why did it all change? It starts with the 3Cs… Colonialism, Capitalism and Christianity. In part 1: the imposition of Christian morality through colonization in the Philippines, India and Vietnam
