Panel I created for the Babaylan and Baybayin event.  It's my depiction of a young queer person in precolonial Philippines, with some tattooing (everyone was tattooed), hair braided with resin in their hair to make it shine.  Acrylic, 4ft. X 9 ft. c. Victoria Gardner 2017 What a journey I have been on. Since that cool April morning at the Burien Starbucks with Hiram CalfLooking and Robin Magnan, I have been on a quest to get to know not just my ancestral roots (not the Ancestry.com type) but my indigenous cultural traditions as well. Specifically, I have been looking for the "sacred space" that LGBTQI2S people occupied in precolonial Philippines.  Did they exist?  Yes they  did .  Were they honored and respected?  Yes they were and in at least one indigenous tribe, the  Teduray  Tribe in a book by Stuart Schlegel called Wisdom from a Rainforest,  continue to be held in high regard (the mentefuwaley libun - man who transforms into a woman and mentefuwalei