{"pk":61481,"title":"In Defense of the X: Centering Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Pilipina/x/os, Queer Vernacular, and the Politics of Naming","subtitle":null,"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","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Essays","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7148255f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kay","middle_name":"Ulanday","last_name":"Barrett","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""},{"first_name":"Karen","middle_name":"Buenavista","last_name":"Hanna","name_suffix":"","institution":"Connecticut College","department":""},{"first_name":"Anang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Palomar","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2021-05-11T07:32:22+01:00","date_accepted":"2021-05-11T07:32:22+01:00","date_published":"2021-07-18T15:57:24+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/alonfilipinxjournal/article/61481/galley/47439/download/"}]}