Precarity and Motherhood in Philippine Trans Cinema

Precarity and Motherhood in Philippine Trans Cinema

In this short essay, I reflect on representations and themes in trans cinema in the Philippines. I examine the emerging and intersecting themes of precarity and motherhood in two recent films –Rod Singh’s Mamu and a Mother too (2018), and Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca (2020). I look at how economi...

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Main Author: Inton-Campbell, Mikee
Format: text
Published: Animo Repository 2022
Subjects:
Trans Cinema
Precarity
Trans Motherhood
Transgender Studies
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Film and Media Studies
Pacific Islands Languages and Societies
South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss3/6
https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1023/viewcontent/5_Campbell_Trans_20Cinema_Akda_201_283_29.pdf
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Institution: De La Salle University
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Summary:In this short essay, I reflect on representations and themes in trans cinema in the Philippines. I examine the emerging and intersecting themes of precarity and motherhood in two recent films –Rod Singh’s Mamu and a Mother too (2018), and Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca (2020). I look at how economic and social precarity tends to pervade the lives of trans women, and how transness itself becomes a form of precarity under the legal system’s lack of accommodation to trans rights. I also examine trans motherhood and make the argument that while it destabilizes biology as the root of motherhood, it also reifies traditional tropes of Filipina motherhood that center it on self-sacrifice. Finally, I look at how precarity and motherhood intersect in Philippine Trans Cinema.

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