TY  - SER
AU  - Malonosan,Jomer Laurio
AU  - Chatterjee,Joyee S.
AU  - Duanghathai Buranajaroenkij,
AU  - Kusakabe,Kyoko
ED  - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Germany,
TI  - Alternative transfeminisms: everyday resistance and support in the life narratives of Filipino trans women
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Pathum Thani, Thailand
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Trans women
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - A thesis submitted in patial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in  Gender and Development Studies; Thesis (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2026
N2  - This study examines how transfeminism is articulated and embodied in the everyday lives of  Filipino trans women. It positions narratives from the Global South as sites of knowledge  production. Drawing on sixteen in-depth life interviews, the research employs critical narrative  analysis to explore how participants engage with dominant meanings of (trans)womanhood,  enact practices of everyday resistance, support, and world-making, and envision the future of  trans communities amidst marginalization. The study foregrounds everyday life as a terrain where gender and power is continuously produced, contested, and reshaped. The findings  advance four key arguments. First, trans womanhood emerges as a contested and relational  process shaped through overlapping frameworks of language, beauty, religion, and desire.  Participants do not simply reproduce or reject dominant norms but actively redefine them,  suggesting that negotiating womanhood itself constitutes a transfeminist practice. Second,  everyday resistance operates through mundane and relational practices{u2014}discursive, embodied,  biomedical, spatial, and relational{u2014}that both navigate marginalization and generate alternative  possibilities for living. Third, support functions not only as a mechanism for survival but as a  form of world-making, as informal care networks, kinship, and mutual aid sustain trans life  beyond exclusionary institutions. Fourth, participants articulate trans futures through situated  imaginaries of recognition, belonging, and collective struggle that emerge from everyday  practices of survival, resistance, and support. By grounding transfeminism in lived experience,  the study advances an alternative transfeminist lens that centers relationality, embodiment, and  everyday resistance. It contributes to feminist and trans scholarship by demonstrating how  marginalized lives generate situated knowledge that challenge dominant frameworks and  expand the understandings of everyday resistance, support, and political possibility in the  Global South
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ER  -