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I am a Filipina in the diaspora, born in the heady sixties, raised during the repressive Marcos regime, this blog is about living and loving in the belly of the beast.

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  • Please take a day off and call your senators

    This just cannot go on Can’t keep apologizing for my meekness I want to stop looking over my Asian shoulders when I walk at night I can’t keep worrying about my friend when she’s a few minutes late from putting coins in the parking meter My Asian father who doesn’t like being called Asian He Read more

  • Happy International Women’s Day!

    On this day of reckoning, when women all over the world should be celebrated and uplifted, when we commemorate the sacrifices of the women who came and fought injustice before us, I just want to sleep! I’ve been alternating between studying and working and this entails, well, mostly reading. When I encounter text-heavy material with Read more