Episode 415 - The Twitter Alterverse and Sexuality in the Philippines

This month of May, the Halo Halo Podcast devoted its episodes to Sex and Politics. On this week’s episode we discuss the Twitter Alterverse and Sexuality in the Philippines. The Alterverse is a digital space on twitter where participants can flirt with one another, be sexually suggestive or sexually explicit with one another, while hiding key parts of their identities. This enables participants to partake in the community as a way of not risking their true identities, reputations and harm to themselves or families. Jezzie and Sigi discuss what makes the Alterverse unique from other social media platforms/apps and how it is a gateway to other forms of communication and interaction. Later, Jezzie discusses how the existence of (and in some ways the need for) such a community makes a commentary about the Philippines and what sexuality is all about in the Philippines.