UP Pride 2022: Equality Talk Series

[NOTE: Equality Talk #2: Being Queer in UP is rescheduled from October 19 (Wednesday) to October 21 (Friday).]

Equality Talk #1
Thrive in Pride: LGBT+ Leaders in the Workplace
October 14 (Friday), 3:00-6:00 PM
Alcantara Hall (Student Union Building), UP Diliman
Equality Talk #2
Being Queer in UP
October 19 (Wednesday), 4:00-6:00 PM
Zoom and Facebook Live
Equality Talk #3
Seal the Bill
October 24 (Monday), 4:00-6:00 PM
Zoom and Facebook Live

UP Pride 2022: SOGIESC Primer Launch

In line with the celebration of UP Pride 2022, the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) is inviting everyone to its SOGIESC Primer Launch on 17 October 2022 (Monday), 2:00-4:00 PM via online.

To register, click the link: https://tinyurl.com/SOGIESCPrimer.

For registrants, links will be sent on the day before the event or earlier. Kindly wait for our email. If you have registered but did not get the link, send us your email via a private message on Facebook or email us at [email protected].

UPCWSFI: Chikahan Kasama ang mga Feminista ng Bayan

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies Foundation, Inc. (UPCWSFI) will be conducting Chikahan Kasama ang mga Feminista ng Bayan on 14 September 2022 (Wednesday), 12:30-2:00 PM via Zoom.

Invited guests will share their insights, perspectives, and experiences on some of the important issues surrounding gender, especially on carework and breadwinning.

Register for free by clicking the link: https://forms.gle/bF7RmmTmyRGGoDZt8.

Saying Yes to Whose Pleasures?

A Feminist Study on the Acceptability of Pregnancies for Young Women

“What are the experiences and views of teenagers on sexuality, pregnancy, fertility, and pleasure? How do gender norms around femininity and motherhood shape or limit teens’ sexual and reproductive health concerns and their social relationships within their communities?” (Oxfam Pilipinas, 2022)

You can now access the study entitled Saying Yes to Whose Pleasures? A Feminist Study on the Acceptability of Pregnancies for Young Women by principal researcher Sabrina Laya Gacad of the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) here.

This paper was developed by Sabrina Laya Gacad for Oxfam Pilipinas, in partnership with the UPCWGS.

Site of Convergence: Weaving Tapestries of Knowledge

Site of Convergence: Changes in Perception of the World and Oneself After Miscarriage

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) invites everyone to Site of Convergence: Changes in Perception of the World and Oneself After Miscarriage on 22 July 2022 (Friday), 2:00-3:30 PM (Manila Time) via online. Our speaker for this event is Marcela Kościańczuk. This event is the eighth session of the “Site of Convergence: Weaving Tapestries of Knowledge” lecture series.

To register for the event, click here: https://tinyurl.com/SOCptsd.

The lecture presents the results of qualitative research based on 21 interviews with Polish women who experienced miscarriage up to three years ago. Marcela Kościańczuk used structured interviews based on the narrative free expression and then questions based on the areas of posttraumatic growth. Kościańczuk tried to analyze if participants of the research experienced changes that may be connected with strategies of coping with stress or posttraumatic growth.

Marcela Kościańczuk works as a University Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies in Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland (Poznan). She also has an MA in Psychology and is an art therapist and psychotherapist. She has published four books based on qualitative research (sometimes visual interviews). She is an author of several articles, and a few of them are available in English. She is interested in minority studies, women studies and medical anthropology, and connections between cultural studies and psychology. Her publications are about topics such as identity of Messianic Jews, understanding of safety and unsafety among Palestinian women, relations between social understanding of health conditions and personal perspectives of cancer patients, cooperation between psychologists and cultural workers in the field of coworking with refugees in Poland.

For registrants, links will be sent on the day before the event or earlier. Kindly wait for our email. If you have registered but did not get the link, send us your email via a private message on Facebook or email us at [email protected].

KDCC: Job Opening

The Kalinga Day Care Center (KDCC) is looking for a daycare teacher.

Qualifications

  • Has a degree or training background in Early Childhood Development
  • An experience in teaching on early childhood set-up for 1-5 years old is an advantage
  • Advocate of gender fairness, nationalism, and love for the environment
  • Loves children

Interested applicants may submit their resume and letter of application to [email protected] on or before 15 July 2022.

Email Subject: KDCC Job Opening – Name of Applicant

Address the letter of application to:
Dr. Nathalie Lourdes Africa-Verceles
Director
UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City

For further inquiries, you may call 09452096949 or email us at [email protected].

The State of LGBTQIA+ Health in the Philippines: A Panel Discussion on Policy, Advocacy, and Research

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) is hosting a panel discussion on The State of LGBTQIA+ Health in the Philippines on 24 June 2022 (Friday), 2:00-3:30 PM via Zoom.

Featuring voices from members of the community, policymaking circles, community-based organizations, and the academe, this webinar will be an avenue to discuss pressing health issues for the Filipino LGBTQIA+ community and ways for different sectors to collaborate.

This webinar is free and open to the public.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/lgbthealthph.

Site of Convergence: Weaving Tapestries of Knowledge

Tumitindig, Tumitindi: Living and Speaking through LGBTQ+ Activism in Urban Philippines

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) invites everyone to Tumitindig, Tumitindi: Living and Speaking through LGBTQ+ Activism in Urban Philippines on 20 June 2022 (Monday), 2:00-3:30 PM (Manila Time) via Zoom. This event is the seventh session of the “Site of Convergence: Weaving Tapestries of Knowledge” lecture series.

Register via https://tinyurl.com/LGBTActivismPH.

Our speaker is Victoria G. Amos. She is an Alice Brown Scholar and PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, currently being sponsored by the Institute of Philippine Culture at Ateneo de Manila University as a Visiting Research Associate. She received an Integrated Master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2019.

In the webinar, she will talk about two research projects. She will talk about her fieldwork conducted with UP Babaylan in 2018, which culminated in her dissertation entitled “Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen: Navigating Validity and Authenticity amongst LGBTQ+ Youth in Urban Philippines.” She will also talk about her ongoing research, which seeks to examine the specific discourses and lived experiences of queer Filipinos in relation to the concepts of “coming out,” “being out,” and “LGBTQ+ Pride,” engaging with a broader range of demographics and methodologies in the process of data gathering/dissemination.

For registrants, links will be sent on the day before the event or earlier. Kindly wait for our email. Please make sure to create a Zoom account, and log in your Zoom account before you click on the webinar link. Individuals who do not have a Zoom account and are not logged in will not be able to enter the Zoom webinar. If you have registered but did not get the link, send us your email via a private message on Facebook or email us at [email protected].