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    "pk": 61481,
    "title": "In Defense of the X: Centering Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Pilipina/x/os, Queer Vernacular, and the Politics of Naming",
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    "abstract": "This essay is an engagement of the dialectics of naming and violence, discussed from the perspectives of the trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming Pilipina/o/xs whom we interviewed in the Summer of 2020.  Applying a transnational queer diasporic methodology, we center their material realities, which we feel remain missing in both scholarly and popular debates about the term “Filipinx.”  Indeed, it was LGBTQI+ Pilipinxs in North America who were the first to use the term “Filipinx” and “Pilipinx” in online spaces. Instead of positioning the X as our main focus, we use it as an entry point to discuss the violence that LGBTQI+ people of Philippine-descent have historically faced for simply identifying themselves on their own terms. It is toward such violence that the queer, non-binary, and trans people who began using the X and other linguistic innovations were and are asserting themselves. Revealed are perspectives and practices of dignity, self-determination, resistance against cultural homogenization and gender gatekeeping, and self-naming as radical imagination initiated by those facing intensified carcerality and other forms of violence that stretch within and beyond nation-state boundaries.",
    "language": "en",
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    "section": "Essays",
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            "first_name": "Kay",
            "middle_name": "Ulanday",
            "last_name": "Barrett",
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            "first_name": "Karen",
            "middle_name": "Buenavista",
            "last_name": "Hanna",
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            "institution": "Connecticut College",
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            "last_name": "Palomar",
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    "date_submitted": "2021-05-11T12:02:22+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2021-05-11T12:02:22+05:30",
    "date_published": "2021-07-18T20:27:24+05:30",
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