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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…
