Calling on all filmmakers and directors! 

Join us as we celebrate pride and queer joy through this year’s UP Pride Film Festival! This year’s Film Festival aims to celebrate the LGBTQI culture and experience, and lets you peek at it on the big screen. This event is part of the annual UP Pride celebration. Send in your queer film applications through the link: http://tinyurl.com/UP-Pride-Queer-Film-Fest. Deadline for submissions is on 13 October 2023. 

NOTE: Terms and conditions apply. More information can be seen in the link above.

[NOTE: The deadline for submission of artworks is extended until 30 September 2023.]

Calling on all queer artists! 

Get a chance to adorn Parola: Fine Arts Gallery with stunning rainbows! For this year’s UP Pride, celebrate by submitting your (queer!) artworks for the upcoming UP Pride Queer Art Exhibit. Let the world see your creative prowess by filling out the form in the link: https://tinyurl.com/Queer-Art-Exhibit. Deadline for submissions is on 23 September 2023. 

NOTE: Terms and conditions apply. More information can be seen in the link above.

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) and the Vibal Group invite everyone to the launch of Gender and Society: Understanding the Gender Dimensions of Philippine Culture and Society on 14 July 2023 (Friday), 3:00 PM at the UPCWGS Conference Room. 

RSVP via the contact details in the poster or via this link: https://tinyurl.com/UPCWGSlaunch. 

Join us tomorrow, June 24 (Saturday), at the Quezon Memorial Circle to reach for the rainbow and make a difference. Catch the many wonderful colors of pride from 10:00 AM onwards as we celebrate pride with Pride PH: Love, Laban. 

Join us on 20 June 2023 (Tuesday) for the start of Paint the Rainbow. Together, let us find rainbow connections as we paint along the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) and UP Palma Hall as a community.

UPCWGS Street Painting and Rainbow Crosswalk Opening
UPCWGS Grounds
10:30 AM onwards

UP Palma Hall Grand Street Mural Painting
M. Roxas Street
2:30 PM onwards

NOTE: We recommend bringing extra clothes to protect from accidental paint splatters. 

Dare to reach the end of the rainbow?

There is nothing to fret about because at the end of the rainbow, you will find our pot of gold. 

 Come join us at the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) Grounds this 20-23 June 2023, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM for a Pride Bazaar.

Let us show our love and support for locally made and queer-supportive businesses.

Once upon a pride, we bring the children along with us as we venture into the beautiful stories of queer lives.

Queens have come near and far to make this a reality and so we proudly present: Tales from the Queendom. Find us at the Kalinga Day Care Center, Area 1, UP Diliman, Quezon City on 19-20 June 2023.

The spaces we take up are a testament to our existence. As we show the intersection of physical spaces and our lived experiences, we tell the world: we have been here; we will always be here; and we will continue to exist.

In celebration of Pride Month, let us map our experiences, and tell the world of the places in time where we felt safe, accepted, loved, and all the messy things in between – the places that have genuinely given us a sense of pride.

Taking inspiration from Queering the Map, you may share your lived experiences of pride in the spaces you took up in UP Diliman:

bit.ly/MAPPINGPRIDE2023 
bit.ly/MAPPINGPRIDE2023 
bit.ly/MAPPINGPRIDE2023 

Once upon a pride, in a world full of bigotry, hate, indifference, and discrimination, a strong and united front against the enemies of equality has ensured that our struggle for equality and justice lives on.

Every year, in honor of their long history, they celebrate pride – to remember their stories, to reclaim their spaces, and to fight for their rights. As with every story, we always look back to move forward.

Once upon a Pride proudly presents:

Mapping Pride
June 9-30
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Tales from the Queendom | Drag Story Time for Kids
June 19-20
TBA

Found the Pot of Gold! | Bazaar
June 20-23
UP Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Paint the Rainbow | Street Mural Painting
June 20-23
TBA

Queer Voices Unite! | Pride Unity Statement
June 24
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Together, let us make the dream of a gender equal, gender responsive, and gender transformative world a living reality.

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) is now accepting proposals for its 2023 UPCWGS Research Grant. The grant seeks to fund cutting-edge research on women and gender in the Philippines.

The UPCWGS will award funding of up to PhP125,000 to four (4) research projects on women and gender in the Philippines. Project duration should be within a four-month period with the start date on 15 August 2023. After that, you will be given two months to write your journal article.

Proposals should follow the format indicated in the PROJECT PROPOSAL TEMPLATE (https://tinyurl.com/UPCWGSprojeprop) and use this CHECKLIST REQUIREMENTS EXPENSES (https://tinyurl.com/UPCWGSchecklist) for their budget proposal. Applicants should also accomplish the ETHICS CHECKLIST GOOGLE FORM* https://tinyurl.com/UPCWGSEthicsChecklist.

Please email your proposals to [email protected], with “2023 UPCWGS RESEARCH GRANT” in the subject line, by 15 July 2023.

Terms and Conditions:

• One of the project proponents should be a regular employee of the University of the Philippines or a UP contractual employee.

• Awarded projects will be provided an initial outlay of PhP15,000 at the start of the project. Afterwards, funds will be accessed through reimbursement of allowed costs, provided that proper documentation is submitted.

*A risk is minimal when the probability and magnitude of harm or discomfort anticipated in the proposed research are not greater, in and of themselves, than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during the performance of routine physical or psychological examinations or tests (National Ethical Guidelines for Health Research 2011).