The Baklush [bᴧk-lu:ʃ] Phenomenology Blog: What’s up with the title?

Bakla is a Tagalog term that encompasses homosexuality, hermaphroditism, cross-dressing, and effiminacy. One of the bakla’s singular attributes is a sense of self entrenched in the process of transformation [Manalansan 2003: ix].

Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced fromt he first-person point of view… Literally, phenomenology is the study of “phenomena”: appearances of things, or things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience things, thus the meanings things have in our experience [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy].

This blog called the Baklush [ bᴧk-lu:ʃ ] Phenomenology begun with a narrative of a personal conversation explaining to the interlocutor what gender studies is while also justifying why I have embarked myself into studying it in the first place.  To read this particular conversation – a sort of which I often encounter – please click this link: A Conversation That Might Have Inspired This Blog Called The Baklush Phenomenology.