Philippine Queer Studies Conference

Maraming salamat to everyone who joined us at PQSC 2026! 🌈

Thank you for sharing your time, stories, research, questions, and solidarity with us. Over three days, we built spaces for learning, reflection, and collective imagining together.

Until the next gathering — tuloy ang pag-aaral, pag-oorganisa, at pagkilos. ✨

Day 1 at the 2026 Philippine Q***r Studies Conference 💫
Grateful for everyone who showed up, shared, and made space for each other.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Join us as we open the 2026 Philippine Q***r Studies Conference with a dialogue that holds space for rigor and tenderness, friction and flow, and the many ways we move together.

“Face-to-Face, Heart-to-Heart: Conversation on Mobilities, Methodologies, and Movements” brings together two voices from different generations of q***r work and thought to reflect on protest, care, joy, fatigue, resistance, and repair. Together, they will explore how movements are shaped not only through strategy and critique, but also through relationships, lived experience, and the everyday work of surviving and imagining otherwise.

See you at the 2026 PQSC!

📅 24 to 26 April 2026
📍 University of the Philippines Diliman

📸 For the first time, the Philippine Q***r Studies Conference will feature a photo exhibit: “Memories of Movements.”

This photography exhibit gathers images of q***r life, organizing, survival, care, and connection across the Philippines. From Pride marches and protests to friendships, chosen family, and everyday acts of resistance, the exhibit honors the many ways q***r histories are lived, remembered, and shared.

This exhibit is curated by Prof. Eloi Hernandez of the UP Department of Art Studies.

Visit the exhibit from 24 to 26 April 2026 at the Lobby of the UP School of Statistics, with the exhibit launch happening on 24 April 2026 at 3:00 PM. RSVP via bit.ly/MemoriesOfMovementsRSVP

How do LGBTQIA+ couples in the Philippines navigate love, family, property, and healthcare rights in a legal system that still does not formally recognize same-sex partnerships?

Join “Rights of LGBTQIA+ Couples in the Philippine Legal Framework: Book Launch and Legal Toolkit Distribution,” one of the featured events of the 2026 Philippine Q***r Studies Conference. 📚⚖️

Hosted by the UP College of Law Gender Law and Policy Program, this session marks the pre-launch of a new monograph and companion legal toolkit designed to help LGBTQIA+ couples better understand and secure rights related to property, healthcare, and family matters.

The program will also bring together legal experts, academics, and community members for an important conversation on legal gaps, the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ families, and the ongoing struggle for equality and reform.

📅 25 April 2026, 4:30
📍 Auditorium, UP School of Statistics, University of the Philippines Diliman

What does it mean to care for movements, and for the people sustaining them?

📣 PQSC 2026 is proud to feature “Caring for Advocates: An Experiential Expressive Arts Session,” facilitated by the Ateneo De Manila University Gender Hub.

The Ateneo Gender Hub will use movement, visual arts, and music to create a space for rest, reflection, creativity, and connection among advocates. No artistic background is needed — only your presence and openness.

Because sustaining movements also means sustaining the people behind them through rest, reflection, and mutual care. 🌈

📅 26 April 2026, 1:30 PM
📍 Auditorium, UP School of Statistics, University of the Philippines Diliman

📣LAST DAY TO REGISTER for PQSC 2026 ✨

From powerful plenaries and workshops to thought-provoking presentations and posters, PQSC 2026 is bringing together some of the most exciting conversations on q***r movements, research, culture, health, family, politics, and resistance.

🔗 To register, visit bit.ly/2026PQSCRegistration or scan the QR Code.

The 2026 Philippine Q***r Studies Conference will be held on April 24-26 at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

For updates, follow us on our socials (***rstudies) and visit the UP CWGS website (cws.up.edu.ph). For partnerships, email us at [email protected].

Tara, hanashi tayo sa ! 🌈

Meet your plenary speakers for✨ Plenary Session 2: Hanashi on Q***ring Families Stories Across the Philippines and Japan

Q***r communities are redefining love, care, and family, despite legal barriers and growing backlash. This plenary brings together advocates, academics, and organizers sharing powerful stories of resistance and reimagining kinship beyond norms.

�🌏 Cross-country conversations you won’t hear anywhere else
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📝 Register now at bit.ly/2026PQSCRegistration

The 3rd Philippine Q***r Studies Conference will be held on April 24 to 26, with the theme Mobilizing Methodologies of Movements.

For updates, follow us on our socials (***rstudies) and visit the UP CWGS website (cws.up.edu.ph). For partnerships, email us at [email protected]

This is your sign to be at 🌈

Meet your plenary speakers for ✨ Plenary Session 1: Charotan, Anchahan, at iba pa — Role of Affect in Trans Solidarity

Across Asia, trans and q***r communities continue to resist—and our emotions, connections, and care are at the heart of that struggle. 💬 Join activists, academics, and artists as we explore how joy, rage, grief, and hope fuel solidarity.

🔥 Don’t miss this powerful plenary.�
📝Register now at bit.ly/2026PQSCRegistration

The 3rd Philippine Q***r Studies Conference will be held on April 24 to 26, with the theme Mobilizing Methodologies of Movements.

For updates, follow us on our socials (***rstudies) and visit the UP CWGS website (cws.up.edu.ph). For partnerships, email us at [email protected]

🌈 Registration for the 2026 Philippine Q***r Studies Conference is now open!
To register, visit: bit.ly/2026PQSCRegistration 🔗

The 2026 Philippine Q***r Studies Conference will be held on April 24-26 at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

For this year’s conference, the conference fees are as follows:
Regular Conference Fee - Php 5,000
Reduced Conference Fee - Php 3,000

The conference fee is inclusive of participation in the three-day conference, which includes presentations and workshops, lunch for three days, and one dinner during the socials.

We recognize that economic circumstances may impact some people’s ability to pay the registration fee and participate in the conference. The reduced registration fee may be availed by: (1) students (senior high school, undergraduate, and graduate), (2) those whose annual income in 2025 did not exceed Php 120,000,(3) retirees, (4) unemployed persons, and (5) persons with disabilities.

Discounts will also be provided to early registrants until February 28.

The 3rd Philippine Q***r Studies Conference carries the theme Mobilizing Methodologies of Movements. For updates, follow us on our socials (***rstudies) and visit the UP CWGS website (cws.up.edu.ph). For partnerships, email us at [email protected].