Forming brown commons through queer joy in butiki/baboy: A pride conversation series

Ian Rafael Ramirez
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In June 2023, Bangkô collective and Tambay Times Kids mobilized Filipino cis-heterosexual women and LGBTQ+ individuals to converse in a gathering which they called Butiki/Baboy: A Pride Conversation Series. Butiki/Baboy (literally Lizard/Pig) references a Filipino nursery song that goes “girl, boy, bakla, tomboy, butiki, baboy,” where butiki and baboy pertain to the made-inhuman others—those who are gender nonconforming and do not fit “Westernised” beauty standards. Conceived to discuss mundane queer topics that are the excess of relevant subjects highlighted during Pride Month, the 2023 iterations of Butiki/Baboy held at multiple sites around Los Baños, Laguna in the Philippines included sessions that revolved around narratives of queer intimacies of community development workers, queerbaiting on social media, radical joys in the mundanity of unfinished projects, and messy ecologies formed in the wilderness. This essay is interested in unpacking and understanding how queer joy emanates from this gathering of cisheterosexual women and LGBTQ+ individuals who are primarily cultural and creative workers, artists, and community development workers. It asks how queer joy, through Butiki/Baboy, affords moments of commoning. Taking the cue from José Esteban Muñoz who explains that the multifarious yet shared experience of suffering and hriving forms brown commons, I argue that Butiki/Baboy facilitated a space for engendering queer joy—that thing that is being banished from queer communities by an interlocking web of powers that tags queer bodies as unworthy and inhuman.
通过 Butiki/baboy 中的同性恋欢乐形成棕色公地:骄傲对话系列
2023 年 6 月,Bangkô 集体和 Tambay Times Kids 组织了一次名为 "Butiki/Baboy "的聚会,动员菲律宾顺式异性恋妇女和 LGBTQ+ 个人进行对话:骄傲对话系列"。Butiki/Baboy(字面意思为蜥蜴/猪)引用了一首菲律宾儿歌:"女孩,男孩,bakla,tomboy,butiki,baboy",其中的butiki和baboy指的是 "人造人"--那些性别不一致、不符合 "西方化 "审美标准的人。2023 年的 "Butiki/Baboy "活动在菲律宾拉古纳省洛斯巴诺斯市的多个地点举行,旨在讨论 "骄傲月 "期间强调的相关主题之外的平凡的同性恋话题,其中包括围绕社区发展工作者的同性恋亲密关系、社交媒体上的同性恋诱饵、未完成项目的平凡中的激进乐趣以及荒野中形成的混乱生态的叙事。这篇文章有兴趣解读和理解同性恋快乐是如何从这一主要由文化和创意工作者、艺术家和社区发展工作者组成的同性女性和 LGBTQ+ 个人的聚会中散发出来的。它提出的问题是,通过 Butiki/Baboy,"同性恋欢乐 "如何提供了共同的时刻。何塞-埃斯特万-穆尼奥斯(José Esteban Muñoz)解释说,苦难和奋斗的经验多种多样,但又是共同的,这就形成了棕色公地。我认为,《Butiki/Baboy》提供了一个创造同性恋欢乐的空间--这种欢乐正在被一个环环相扣的权力网络从同性恋社区中驱逐出去,这个权力网络将同性恋身体标记为不值得和不人道的东西。
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