CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Lacsamana, Marlon Toledo |
|---|---|
| Title | Rainbow Warriors: Strategies of War in the Inclusion of Persons Of Diverse SOGIE in the Maoist Insurgency in the Philippines |
| Summary | In this thesis, readers are given a first-hand account of the lives of ten persons of diverse Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) in the context of the Maoist insurgency in the Philippines with emphasis on their experiences as armed rainbow warriors. Their experiences are complimented with in-depth analysis of six CPP documents on how the movement should treat people of diverse SOGIE by looking at key frameworks of Maoist nationalism and military and militarized masculinities. In the perspective of the ten respondents, their position within the Maoist movement revolves around the ideology, institution, and subjective identities. The author argues for a rethinking of essentialist view of hegemonic Western cultural product such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) in the understanding of the Filipino bakla and tomboy. The (re)construction of the bakla and tomboys as ‘heterosexualized homosexuals’ by the Maoist movement, that speaks of a different ontological experience of people who transgress heterosexual sexual norms, that is incomparable to their Western counterpart. And finally, the thesis looks at the gender hierarchy being created within the Maoist movement and how people of diverse SOGIE were positioned into it. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/lacsamana_marlon.pdf |
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