June 2011
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How can anyone like Mary Oliver’s “Singapore”? →
“the trope of the unthreatening little brown or yellow woman, glowing with warmth and human dignity, providing the archetypal WIWL speaker with an occasion for a Damascene conversion”
Brilliant.
potluck #2: Comfort Food →
jhameia:
yiduiqie:
The carnival is up! Potluck 2: Comfort Food is filled with great and interesting intersectional stories about comfort food. Give it a read! Tell all your friends!
FOOD! And the stories are amaaaazing <3<3<3 Thanks for hosting, Steph!!
Love love love!
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s...”
– Susan Sontag
Following Scotty: Philippine Mythology of the Day →
ascottyfollower:
In Maguindanao culture (as observed in the 1970s), the matua paganai (old folks in the past) prohibited groups from reciting riddles at night because they believed evil spirits will join the session and will try to harm participants if they were not able to correctly answer the spirit’s riddle.
This belief is also shared by Bagobos, as E. Arsenio Manuel once wrote:
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Keeping the fires burning →
That’s what makes the outburst of the kin of the victims of the Maguindanao massacre welcome, a drop of kalamansi on a wound to keep the prince from falling into the vapors of sleep. What advances the cause of justice is memory, and what advances the cause of memory is emotion. Without emotion, it is hard to remember. Without remembering, it is hard to find justice. I don’t know that we can...
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Filipino Mythology of the Day
ascottyfollower:
Anit
In Bagobo mythology, Anit is a malevolent spirit who causes misfortune to whoever laughs at animals or at defects of human beings.
Source: Upland Bagobo Narratives, recorded with the help of Bagobo friends and translated with the assistance of Saddam Pagayaw by E. Arsenio Manuel (1962)
Arundhati Roy: "They are trying to keep me... →
Cannot wholeheartedly rec article (ugh hello problematic framing and comments), but for this:
If you’re an adivasi[tribal Indian] living in a forest village and 800 CRP [Central Reserve Police] come and surround your village and start burning it, what are you supposed to do? Are you supposed to go on hunger strike? Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...
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“There continue to exist many gaps in written Philippine history. Some of these...”
– Luis C. Dery (via ascottyfollower)
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Asian Women, American GIs, And Modern Rape... →
ieatmypancitwithrice:
cocothinkshefancy:
This ignores the extensive and once notorious legacy of the rape, trafficking and forced sexual exploitation of women of color – and of Asian women in particular – by American soldiers abroad. For nearly half of the 20th century (from roughly 1939 to 1980), America maintained an enormous military presence throughout the Pacific Rim, initially to...
“I did not grow up speaking English—though English has become my dominant...”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Meditations on Writing
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Ang Iyong Buhay Ay Laging Mabibigo
Sikapin mo mang gawin ang lahat upang maging sining ang iyong buhay ay laging mabibigo.
Sikapin mo mang gawin ang lahat upang maging buhay ang iyong sining ay laging mabibigo.
Sikapin mo mang agawin ang iyong buhay upang maging lahat ang iyong sining ay laging mabibigo.
Ang iyong sining ay laging mababago ng iyong buhay. Ang iyong buhay ay laging mabibigo ng iyong sining. Ang iyong...
Help Save and Conserve Philippine Marine Wildlife... →
philippinestudiesgroup:
Target: President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” C. Aquino III
Sponsored by: The Philippine Studies Group
“The Philippines is a smorgasbord of world-class dive sites, being the center of the coral triangle around 400 types of corals which highlight the most diverse and marine-rich waters on earth. We have 2,000 species of marine life. We are Asia’s dive capital.” - Dr. Ted...
May 2011
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“It is histories that weave the diverse strands of a people’s past into the...”
– OD Corpuz
(via iwriteasiwrite)
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As a speaker I listened to last week said, “we must not forget who we are. We must dig deep into our roots to find what is good within us and within our country.”
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Hapag-kainan, dibdib
[Not linking to the original entry, so I’m cross-posting instead the essay I wrote about food for Potluck #2.]
My language is one that eats and is eaten. If one is to speak to me of comfort and discomfort — speak to me of food. “Balut,” you say. “That’s disgusting, too.” It is yet another conversation our chat room has somehow wandered into, talking...