Precarity and Motherhood in Philippine Trans Cinema

• 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
• Institution: De La Salle University

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...