
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tiatco, Sir Anril P.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">   Performing the &lt;em&gt;Bakla &lt;/em&gt;in &lt;em&gt;The Care Divas&lt;/em&gt;: Cross-Dressing, Affective Labor and the Glimpse of the Cosmopolitan   </style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Homosexuality</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2015.1073031</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">65</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1485-1511</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This essay is a close reading of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;The Care Divas&lt;/i&gt;, a Filipino musical revolving around the struggle of five Filipino caregivers in Israel who also struggle with their sexual identities as&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;bakla&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Filipino homosexual). The analysis is both an affirmation and a critique of the performance. In the affirmation, the musical is argued to present a social reality that is intended for and in need of interrogation: the Filipino&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;bakla&lt;/i&gt;. The musical implicitly features the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;bakla&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;as a cosmopolitan. At the outset, this cosmopolitan disposition comes from the fact that the characters are migrant workers (caregivers). But more importantly, the cosmopolitan character is from a responsibility toward the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;anchored within a genuine caring as implicated in the affective labor of these caregiver characters. In the critique, the essay marks some problematic limitations in the treatment of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;bakla&lt;/i&gt;. In doing so, the musical, despite its attempt to present a social reality, is a problem play, a social drama touching social issues—realistic in approach, but the representation seems like an editorial. In the final analysis,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;The Care Divas&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;is argued to seemingly fail because artists are not able to see the complexity of their chosen subject in a bigger picture.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></issue></record></records></xml>