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Herstory is Here: Lesbian Pride Stories
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Herstory takes place in the four corners of the UP College of Social Work and Community Development Seminar Room, as Babaylanes Inc., in celebration of its fifteen lustrous years, concludes the Lesbian Pride Stories. The event enabled the lesbian movement to take center stage once again as pioneers of the…
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Harvesting Outcomes in Baguio
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Nice to meet you, Ka-VOICE! Babaylanes, along with other Empowerment and Influencing grantees, met with VOICE at Baguio City last February 21-24, 2023, for the Outcome Harvesting workshop and Partners’ Circle. The bulk of the event was dedicated to learning about the Outcome Harvesting (OH) process and its specific application…
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Babaylanes Equality Fellowship Graduation Rites
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Congratulations Babaylanes Equality Fellows! The pioneering batch of the BEF program has now graduated. Last January 20-21, 2023, the BEF fellows met at the B Hotel Quezon City to attend culminating activities of the fellowship. On their first day, they underwent their last evaluation session to talk about their personal…
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F2BM LPC Hosts StratComms Design & Consultation Workshop for CoA Member Organizations
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On 18-21 January 2023, the Legal Policy Change (LPC) Cluster of the Free to Be Me hosted the Strategic Communications Design and Consultation Workshop for the member organizations of the Communities of Action (CoA) at the B Hotel Quezon City. Highlights of the workshop included a presentation on the history…
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Fellows’ Corner: Filipinos Have a Right to Inclusive and SGM-Sensitive Healthcare — A BEF Project
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Written by: Ysabela Calderon The devolution of the Philippine Healthcare system in 1991 completely shifted the delivery of care for Filipinos. In the current system, the management of healthcare units has been transferred from the national level to the local, provincial, city, and municipal levels. While this gives power to…
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Fellows’ Corner: The BEF Experience
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Written by: Altan Bermejo My experience as Fellow under the Babaylanes Equality Fellowship had influenced, taught, and exposed me to various possibilities in the LGBTQIA+ advocacy and activism. Since this fellowship aimed to capacitate graduating and alumni student-leaders, it was an honor and stroke of good fortune being part of…
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Fellows’ Corner: BEF JOURNEY — The Individual, The Collective, and The Movement
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Written by: Red Raz, Yami Torres, and Darell Bautista How do we describe the experience of an unexpected opportunity that we always knew we needed, but we thought would not exist? Writing about the Babaylanes Equality Fellowship (BEF) proves to be more challenging than getting into the program quite honestly.…
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Babaylanes attends the 9th ILGA Asia Conference
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Babaylanes, through the Free to Be Me Communities of Action, participated in the 9th ILGA Asia Conference last 28 November to 02 December 2022 held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With the theme “Our Trials, Our Triumphs, and the Future We Demand”, various LGBTQI organizations and allies from Asia…
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Babaylanes attends (IM)PART Partners Meeting and DEI Conference in Thailand
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From November 21 to 22, Babaylanes took part in the (IM)PART Partners Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. During the event, Babaylanes talked about the LGBTQI situation in the Philippines and provided updates on the organization, as well as the DEI project that was implemented from November 2021 to October 2022 wherein…
