Interview with Geena Rocero

Geena Rocero is a Filipino trans woman and supermodel from Makati City in the Philippines. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, her career as a model and founder of the production company Gender Proud, and her perspective of Filipino history and culture. Specifically, Rocero talks at length about the history and visibility of trans people in the Philippines, the pageant culture and communities of trans women therein, and the pre-colonial history of the Philippines, as well as her migration to the San Francisco Bay Area and experiences within Asian and Pacific Islander trans communities there.

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Identifier: 3b591871b
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Rocero, Geena
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Nov. 16, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Asian Pacific Wellness Center
Babaylan
Bakla
Beutiful as I Want to Be
Caitlyn Jenner
Ferdinand Magellan
Gender Proud
Janet Mock
Jazz Jennings
Jeffrey Caliendo
Lauren Foster
Mahu
Papuan
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
New York
Thailand
National Capital Region > Southern Manila District > City of Makati > Makati City
Topic(s): Anthropology
Art
Asian LGBTQ+ people
Assigned gender
Bullying
Celebrities
Contraception
Cultures
Families
Family relationships
Femininities
Femmes
Filipino American women
Gender diversity
Gender identity
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
Harassment
Health
Hormone therapy
Hormones
Immigration
Indigenous peoples
Lectures
LGBTI rights
LGBTQ+ visibility
Medical care
MtFs
Olympic games
Pageants
Passing (Gender)
Photographic models
Poverty
Privilege (Social psychology)
Racism
Roman catholicism
Self-acceptance
Sexual harassment
Stealth (Transgender)
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Transphobia
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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