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Breaking up with Vino
I started therapy because I was breaking up with Vino. If I didn’t get rid of him, or at least try I would become—if I wasn’t already—an alcoholic. My habit of drinking alone in my apartment,...
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Raw and Disorder
Like an episode from Law and Order: SVU, I woke up one morning to find my apartment the crime scene of debauchery and shame. The evidence: Empty wine bottles on the coffee table along with a half...
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In the Shadows
1988 was eventful. A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution debuted in independent film festivals everywhere and catapulted its director, Nettie Wild to international recognition. It was...
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Martial Law, My Father and Me
“You have to pick places you don’t walk away from.”—Joan Didion “Madali tayong makalimot / we forget easily.”—Known Filipino attribute 1971I. The young man in this picture is my father at his...
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Caviar for Working Folk
1.The popular girls, the ones who always sit by the boulder between the school entrance and the soccer field, like my Cats t-shirt. Where did you get it? The ringleader asks. She’s blond with...
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Not Your Fetish: The Takedown of Day Above Ground
By now, anyone plugged into any social media network has heard that Los Angeles-based band Day Above Ground (DAG) has removed “Asian Girlz”, the music video Angry Asian Man founder Phil Yu concluded...
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Being a Guest in the Feminist Movement
In 1992, my mother joined The Vancouver Feminist Collective* (VFC). In less than four months of her being hired as a program coordinator, she was fired. She did not steal money, physically abuse...
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Radio-BED: Wall Street Wolves Dressed in Radical Politics
When I posted an interview I conducted with Shannon Gibney from the Radio-BED website—a network of progressive podcasts—onto mine, I didn’t think it was going to cause so much trouble. Disagreements...
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