ARASAHAS

Poems from the Tropics

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Jaya Jacobo a Lecturer in Gender Studies at Coventry University, where she currently does work on trans feminist pedagogies in literature, art and performance. She has worked alongside travesti and transsexual women artists, academics and community workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as well as with trans, queer and nonbinary Filipina/x/o performers from the Philippines and its diaspora. Jacobo was a former Board Member of the Society of Trans Women of the Philippines (STRAP), a former President of the Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle (YCC) of the Philippines, a 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. Her debut volume of poetry in Filipino, Arasahas, was released by Savage Mind Publishing House (Bicol, Philippines, 2023).
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
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Christian Jil R. Benitez is a queer poet, scholar, translator, and educator from the Philippines. He earned his AB-MA in Filipino Literature from the Department of Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University, where he teaches literature, criticism, and rhetoric. Currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, he is pursuing his PhD in comparative literature at Chulalongkorn University. His first book, Isang Dalumat ng Panahon (ADMU Press, 2022), received the Philippine National Book Award for literary studies and cultural criticism.