Queering the present, redistributing the future: Transgressive queer futurities and politics in Philippine science fiction
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2025
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Abstract
Where does the queer figure emerge in futures favored by an insistence on generational continuity? In many futuristic narratives, emphasis frequently centers on safeguarding the next generation, with themes of procreation, family, and genetic continuity often taking priority—reflecting an inadequate and exclusive view of what it means to build a future. In this context, science fiction reveals an implicit dependence on heterosexual reproduction, shaping speculative futures that sideline or negate possibilities for queer desire, and identity, thus creating a “no future” scenario for those outside heteronormative structures. This study examines how Philippine science fiction envisions alternative futures and its articulations of sex, gender, class, and Filipino identity. This preliminary study on Philippine science fiction engages with queer politics and queered visions of fictional futures as depicted in selected 21st century Philippine science fiction texts from (1) Diaspora Ad Astra: An Anthology of Science Fiction from the Philippines (2013); and (2) Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults (2016). Using José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of “queer utopia” and Lee Edelman’s critique of “reproductive futurism,” this thesis explores how selected Filipino science fiction writers engage in queer world-making practices in envisioning and redistributing a queer future. Apart from examining the renderings of imagined queer futures, this study contributes to the scholarship and teaching of science fiction by proposing a queer reading strategy that attends closely to the politics, poetics, and assumptions of queer science fiction.
Keywords: Philippine science fiction; futurity; queer theory; no future; reproductive futurism; queer utopia; Lee Edelman; José Esteban Muñoz
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| Authors | Dulce, Teddy |
| Journal | Malay Journal |
| Year | 2025 |
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