Jaya Jacobo is a writer and transfeminist thinker who has curated a comprehensive discourse program for “Sincerely Yours, the Philippines,” bringing together conversations, discussions, and poetic interventions. Through a poetic introduction to the festival, Jaya Jacobo ruminates on the ecologies of thought and sentiment which enable and disavow the possibility of emancipatory performance in the contemporary Philippine cultural landscape.
Infos
- Language: English
Sponsors and Supporters
„Sincerely Yours, the Philippines“ ist ein Projekt des Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut Philippinen. Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes, gefördert von dem Beauftragten für Kultur und Medien. Gefördert durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, das Goethe-Institut und „Philippinen - Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025“.
Biography
Jaya Jacobo is a trans feminist poet, scholar and theorist teaching trans and queer studies at the Department of Women and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Postdoctoral Fellow of the Global Grace: Gender and Cultures of Equality Programme, funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation-Global Challenges Research Fund, at the University of the Philippines and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She has worked alongside travesti and transsexual women artists, scholars and community workers in Brazil, as well as with trans, queer and nonbinary Filipina/x/o performers from the Philippines and Philippine diaspora abroad. She was Founding Co-Editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art and Co-Editor of BKL: Bikol/Bakla, Anthology of Bikolnon Gay Trans Queer Writing. Arasahas, her debut volume of poetry in Filipino (Savage Mind, 2023; Pulso, 2025) was a Finalist for Best Book of Poetry in Filipino at the 2024 National Book Awards, and the translation in English by Christian Jil Benitez Arasahas: Poems from the Tropics (PAWA & Paloma, 2024) is a Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Award in Transgender Poetry.