Two “opposing” identities: It appears that, according to traditional societal views, a religious person is not part of the LGBT community. However, Lopez embraces her dual identity as a queer and religious individual.
In the same way, Panlilio, a mother of three, was expected to be home and take care of her children. However, she embraced her motherhood but did not leave behind her role as a guerrilla member.
Societal roles: These two stories also show that men are the ones that oppose the most to these dual identities. In the case of Lopez, she discovered that the organizers of the movements against Our Lady were predominantly men. In the same way, Panlilio’s bosses, who all were men, denied her the right to go to Bataan.
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Abbreviated Title: The quiet revolutionary
Both Chapman and Panlilio show that being a revolutionary does not necessarily requires the use of physical force, but through the use of ideas one can overcome obstacles and help make a better world. Chapman, through her songs about social injustice, and Panlilio, through her input of knowledge to the Guerrilla, show that ideas put into words can, at the end, serve as one of the best weapons to overcome the