Ram Botero

Fearing her mother’s disapproval, a 17 year-old trans girl secretly sews a prom dress from her mother’s scrap fabric (“retaso”).

A trans woman, a poet, and an activist contemplate on the lives they’ve left behind as they embark on a journey to an Indigenous Filipino reimagination of hell.

Diwata is a performance for camera, exploring precolonial Philippine mythology from a contemporary, ecotransfeminist lens.