🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Join us as we open the 2026 Philippine Queer 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 queer 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 Queer Studies Conference will feature a photo exhibit: “Memories of Movements.”
This photography exhibit gathers images of queer 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 queer 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 Queer Studies Conference. 📚⚖️
Hosted by the UP College of Law Gender Law and Policy Program, this session marks the 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.
See you on 25 April 2026, 4:30–6:00 PM, at the Auditorium of the UP School of Statistics.
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 queer movements, research, culture, health, family, politics, and resistance.
🔗 To register, visit bit.ly/2026PQSCRegistration or scan the QR Code.
The 2026 Philippine Queer 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 (@phqueerstudies ) and visit the UP CWGS website (cws.up.edu.ph). For partnerships, email us at [email protected].
Tara, hanashi tayo sa #PQSC2026! 🌈
Meet your plenary speakers for✨ Plenary Session 2: Hanashi on Queering Families Stories Across the Philippines and Japan
Queer 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
🔥 Happening at #PQSC2026
📝 Register now at bit.ly/2026PQSCRegistration
The 3rd Philippine Queer Studies Conference will be held on April 24 to 26, with the theme Mobilizing Methodologies of Movements.
For updates, follow us on our socials (@phqueerstudies ) and visit the UP CWGS website (cws.up.edu.ph). For partnerships, email us at [email protected]
This is your sign to be at #PQSC2026 🌈
Meet your plenary speakers for ✨ Plenary Session 1: Charotan, Anchahan, at iba pa — Role of Affect in Trans Solidarity
Across Asia, trans and queer 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 Queer Studies Conference will be held on April 24 to 26, with the theme Mobilizing Methodologies of Movements.
For updates, follow us on our socials (@phqueerstudies ) and visit the UP CWGS website (cws.up.edu.ph). For partnerships, email us at [email protected]
🌈 Registration for the 2026 Philippine Queer Studies Conference is now open!
To register, visit: bit.ly/2026PQSCRegistration 🔗
The 2026 Philippine Queer 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 Queer Studies Conference carries the theme Mobilizing Methodologies of Movements. For updates, follow us on our socials (@phqueerstudies ) and visit the UP CWGS website (cws.up.edu.ph). For partnerships, email us at [email protected]
📸 DEADLINE EXTENDED! You now have more time to submit your photos for Memories of Movements, the PQSC 2026 community art exhibit.
🗓 New deadline: 8 February 2026
🔗 Submit here: bit.ly/2026PQSCArtExhibit
Help us document queer life, memory, and movement across the Philippines. 🌈
#2026PQSC
📸 CALL FOR PHOTO SUBMISSIONS
Memories of Movements | PQSC 2026 Art Exhibit
This year, the Philippine Queer Studies Conference 2026 opens a new space for remembering.
We invite you to be part of “Memories of Movements,” a community photo-wall exhibit that gathers images of queer life, organizing, survival, and connection across the Philippines.
Movements are often carried by people rather than institutions—held in phones, folders, group chats, and family albums. This exhibit honors those everyday archives and the many ways queer histories are lived, remembered, and shared.
We welcome photographs taken through the years that document queer presence and movement-building—from protests and Pride gatherings to quiet moments of care, friendship, and resistance that rarely enter formal archives.
🗓 Deadline for submission: 31 January 2026
📍 Exhibit at: University of the Philippines Diliman (April 2026)
🔗 Submit here: bit.ly/PQSCMemoriesOfMovements
DEADLINES EXTENDED ⏳
We’ve already received many exciting paper, panel, and workshop proposals for PQSC 2026 — but there’s still time to add yours!
📑 Submit your paper and panel proposals until October 15:
👉 bit.ly/2026PQSCSubmissionForm
🛠️ Submit your workshop proposals until October 30:
👉 bit.ly/2026PQSCWorkshopProposals
