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CCAD Senior Research Aide Maybelle Grace Aton, a BA Communication Batch 2025 alumna, presented her undergraduate thesis as a poster at the Philippine Queer Studies Conference (PQSC) 2026, a national conference that brings together scholars, artists, and advocates to advance critical conversations on gender and sexuality in the Philippine contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n Aton\u2019s study examines the lived experiences of six Filipino queer voice actors and how they negotiate gender identity within the Philippine voice acting industry. Focusing on vocal performance as a space where the body is unseen, the research explores how queerness is expressed, regulated, and reimagined beyond traditional on-screen or stage-based performance.<\/span><\/p>\n Anchored in Queer Theory and Gender Performativity Theory, and using a Queer phenomenological approach by Sara Ahmed, the study draws from in-depth interviews and reflexive memos to surface seven key themes. These findings position voice acting as a space for transformation and self-discovery, while also revealing how queer practitioners navigate industry expectations, discrimination, and representation.<\/span><\/p>\n Participants reported both subtle and blatant forms of gender-based discrimination, while also demonstrating agency through subversion, visibility, and advocacy, articulating forms of queer optimism within their professional practice. The study frames voice acting as both a liberating and constrained space, where queer actors reshape what gendered voices can sound like and push for more inclusive media labor practices.<\/span><\/p>\n The thesis was also awarded the Hamiling Paniksik sa Komunikasyon Outstanding Thesis Award (Best Thesis) during Pagbudyong 2025, the college\u2019s graduation rites.<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83d\udd17 Read the full abstract and view the poster here:<\/span> \ud83d\udd17 Learn more about PQSC 2026:<\/span> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CCAD Senior Research Aide Maybelle Grace Aton, a BA Communication Batch 2025 alumna, presented her undergraduate thesis as a poster at the Philippine Queer Studies Conference (PQSC) 2026, a national conference that brings together scholars, artists, and advocates to advance critical conversations on gender and sexuality in the Philippine contexts. Aton\u2019s study examines the lived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-medialab-hub","category-research-creative-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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