Tag: babaylan

• 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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  October 13, 2024

  Asian American Guests, LGBTQIA+

  aapi, an dai vuong, an vuong, babaylan, bipoc, calabai, calalai, chigo, drinking wine and reading encountering sorrow, khai dinh, king hyegong, le tuan, nuancespod, Premodern Asia, Queer Asians, Queering Premodern Asia, Wu Zao

• 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

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  September 8, 2024

  Asian American Guests, Buddhism, Capitalism, Christianity, Islam, LGBTQIA+, Orientalism, Religion, Religious Deconstruction/Agnosticism/Atheism, Sikhism, Systemic oppression

  aapi, asog, babaylan, bipoc, British empire, Franciscan missions, French empire, Indian Penal Code, jacobus x, Maganito, nuancespod, Portuguese India, Premodern Asia, Queer Asians, Queering Premodern Asia, Section 377, Spanish empire, untrodden fields of anthropology, Vagrancy laws