More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History and Politics Biography as well as trips to

as well as trips to aboriginal lands in Australia's Northern Territories and to the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland

232 pages / Paperback

Fully illustrated with over 500 examples of this previously unrecorded aspect of popular culture

Scheurweghs' natural home birth took 16 hours

The book makes a powerful combination of two of the country’s most important figures in history who have made significant contributions in the literary field

More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History and Politics Biography as well as trips toIn the Philippines, those who do not fall neatly within the dictated norms of gender and sexuality have often been rendered invisible if not condemned outright by mainstream society heavily steeped in westernized gender roles and Catholic notions of sexual propriety. And yet such individuals have existed throughout our history, from the androgynous bayog and asog shamans of precolonial times to members of the Chinese community persecuted for sodomy in