TANDAG, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews / 01 April) — Last week, I was perturbed when a pregnant Lumad teen, Tuyet, asked me what to do after she was asked accordingly by the military to go to the…
TANDAG, Surigao del Sur — Last week, I was perturbed when a pregnant Lumad teen, Tuyet, asked me what to do after she was asked accordingly by the military to go to their camp for an interrogation. All I could muster was to coach her to get legal counsel before agreeing to an interview. And she simply said, “Okay.”
Without tight monitoring at the sanctuary, she met a guy through social media who provided her with a much-needed sense of security and joy. Such an affair ended after she realized she was pregnant already. I can imagine how she was so perplexed about where to go then. She had to leave the sanctuary out of shame for having lied about her ‘escapades’. She had to face the wrath of her parents, who by any Lumad standard would have disowned her already.
In 2017, during fieldwork, I noticed that Lumad women are as capable as the men in the community. Lumad women are not subordinates but rather complementary to the men. In terms of leadership, recently, Lumad women are not confined anymore to the kitchen. It was the first time that the Lumad social movement that I studied had a female leadership. It was so because potential male leaders refused to accept leadership roles after their chair was violently killed by the paramilitary.
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