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(0)Geena Rocero
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a young femme growing up in Manila in the 1990s, Geena Rocero endured shouts of bakla, bakla!, a Filipino taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the little universe of her eskinita. Eventually she found her place in trans pageants, events as widely attended and culturally significant as a national sport, going to high school by day and competing by night. When her competitors denigrated her with the nickname "horse barbie," due to...
