Unity Statement for Pride Month 2023
The story of Pride in 1969 is nothing short of similar from today’s reality. It was 54 years ago when the Stonewall Inn was raided by state forces that ignited the riot and the tradition of protest that we commemorate to this day. Decades passed and yet we battle with the same enemies, we fight […]
Message of UP President Angelo A. Jimenez for International Women’s Day 2023
You may view the video message of UP President Angelo A. Jimenez for International Women’s Day 2023 here.
Statement of Support for the SOGIE Equality Bill, an Act Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE)
The UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies expresses its vigorous and unwavering support for a national law that protects all Filipinos from discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE). We recognize that everyone has their own SOGIE, but lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) people are discriminated against, […]
Statement of UPCWGS Director Dr. Nathalie Lourdes Africa-Verceles During the SOGIE Equality Bill Hearing on 4 September 2019
I was Catholic school-educated from pre-school to high school, and the God I came to know is compassionate, just, and intolerant of oppression. I am as heteronormative and cisnormative as it gets. Assigned sex, female. Sexual orientation, heterosexual. Gender identity, woman. Gender expression, feminine. All in perfect congruence. Everything in place according to what society […]
Statement of the University of the Philippines System Gender and Development (GAD) Committee and Offices of Anti-Sexual Harassment on the Possible Release from Prison of Ex-Calauan Mayor Antonio L. Sanchez
The University of the Philippines System Gender and Development (GAD) Committee and Offices of Anti-Sexual Harassment condemn in the strongest terms the possible release from prison of convicted rapist and murderer, ex-Calauan Mayor Antonio L. Sanchez. We are outraged that the perpetrator of crimes so heinous they were described by presiding Judge Harriet Demetriou as […]
Misogyny Is Not Funny
Misogyny is not funny. Neither is it OA to speak against it. — mi·sog·y·ny \mə-ˈsä-jə-nē\ noun : a hatred of women : dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women [Merriam-Webster Dictionary]
In Pride and Solidarity: Statement on the 21st Anniversary of the Pride Movement in the Philippines
June 27, 2015 Judy M. Taguiwalo Director University Center for Women’s Resources University of the Philippines Pride is a struggle. The Stonewall Riots in 1969 was a protest against systemic violence against the LGBT people and other minorities in the US. It served as a precursor for the movement for LGBT liberation, a movement that […]