Long have we waited for this, a robust and well-curated compendium of Philippine lesbian writing that at once represents and evokes, describes and inscribes, defines and complicates the lived truths and experiences of Filipino women-loving-women, despite or precisely because of the fact that their identities are not exactly reducible to this or that term . . . Of course, so much has passed in the vexed and freighted histories of gender and sexuality in our time that, indeed, the term “lesbian” must be increasingly understood in the way that “woman” is—as a performativity whose promise will always exceed its enactments, as a culturally efficacious myth whose power lies in its being figural and hypersemantic and in that sense ultimately transcendent of any and all referentiality. Reading the
