YUGTO: Get Mad About Filipino History

It's Yugto Episode 5! How many times can I say 'unprecedented' and 'genitals' in one episode? Let's find out. 

Today, we talk about: Being a girl, being a boy, being neither or both, the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the difficulties of celebrity, and two talented, brilliant women who deserve way, way more than they got.

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We keep in mind our Filipino countrymen affected by the merciless series of typhoons that has hit the nation.

To give to 'Tarabangan sa Pagbangon': https://www.facebook.com/jejomar.bongat/posts/415011639890507

To give to 'Maygnaway needs help': https://www.facebook.com/mel.tan.9/posts/10214532559146565

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To give to 'Tarabangan sa Pagbangon': https://www.facebook.com/jejomar.bongat/posts/415011639890507

To give to 'Maygnaway needs help': https://www.facebook.com/mel.tan.9/posts/10214532559146565

This episode, we remember Jennifer Laude, and all Filipino LGBTQ who have suffered and died for needless reasons, from pre-colonial times to our present.

We talk about: how I wish we could go back to pre-Spanish gender equality, the 'God of the Whirlwind', guerilla tactics and magic in the mountains, succession woes, a trap set by a mistress and how the Babaylans were killed off but came back.

Continuing from last episode, we get into the grisly details of the end of GOMBURZA. This episode, we talk about: "King Burgos", several liars, a fixed trial, a gambling note gone wrong, how one of the Priests went mad, an interesting perspective on what the Cavite Mutiny was meant to do versus what it did, some famous last words, and the dramatic and public executions that would become the roundabout cause of Filipino independence.

Where better to start than the event that we learn about in High School as “the execution that triggered the Filipino revolution?"  This episode, we talk about: the lives of the most popular Filipino priests in history before they were executed, something called "secularization", two governer-generals with very different philosophies, a mutiny and how it became a stellar example of the powers-that-be controlling the narrative so they can kill the people they want to kill.