• Wrapping Up: Hangouts with BEF Fellows

    That’s a wrap! The Hangouts with our BEF Fellows are officially over. Last July, the Hangout session 3 was used to talk about the initial batch project ideas of our fellows. Here, our Executive Director Jap Ignacio answered the fellows’ concerns about their incoming batch project implementation. The Babaylanes staff…

  • BEF Catch-Up: Community Organizing and Lobbying

    The BEF Discourse & Discussion (D&D) sessions 7 and 8 are now done. This marks the end of the D&D sessions for the BEF 2022 curriculum. Last July, the BEF D&D on Community Organizing was conducted with Maroz Ramos from GALANG Philippines. Our Mentor discussed GALANG’s experiences and tips in…

  • Hangout with BEF Fellows

    ‘Hangouts’ may mean different things for every person but for our Babaylanes Equality Fellows, it’s their chance to casually talk and share ideas with LGBTQI Mentors about special topics related to their interests. The BEF Hangouts, just like the Discourse & Discussion sessions introduced earlier in the program, are part…

  • BEF Catch-Up: On Intersectional Feminism and the Human Rights Advocacy

    The first half of the BEF Discourse & Discussion Sessions are now done! During the months of April and May, BEF D&D Sessions 3 and 4 were conducted respectively. The fellows were joined by BEF Mentor Natsy Africa-Verceles for D&D Session 3 who discussed Intersectional Feminism while BEF Mentor Marc…

  • Advocacy Discussions on Leadership and Effective Communication

    The first two Discourse & Discussion (D&D) sessions of the Babaylanes Equality Fellowship have been conducted last March 2022. As part of their coursework, our Fellows have to learn eight different topics related to LGBTQI advocacy in a D&D format. Each D&D session is composed of a pre-recorded lecture and…

  • Babaylanes Equality Fellowship Launch

    We are pleased to announce that the final 20 applicants have been selected. Congratulations to the pioneering batch of the Babaylanes Equality Fellows! To welcome them, an Orientation for Fellows was conducted last 19 February (Saturday). The successful applicants were given an overview of the program activities and introduced to…

  • First Batch of Babaylanes Equality Fellows to be Announced Soon

    The interviews for applicants of the Babaylanes Equality Fellowship (BEF) have been conducted over the weekend. This set of applicants come from diverse fields and backgrounds, and are eager to develop skills for effective advocacy. During the course of the interviews, several have identified gaps in responses to LGBTQI issues…

  • [CALL FOR APPLICATIONS] Babaylanes Equality Fellowship

    The call for applications for the first batch of Babaylanes fellows is now OPEN. Babaylanes and the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives are proud to launch the Babaylanes Equality Fellowship. The program aims to capacitate young and emerging LGBTQI Filipino leaders and to develop second-liners to sustain the LGBTQI advocacy…