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  • Bakit Boycott? An online forum on the Frankfurt Book Fair and Palestine

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    The Philippines is Guest of Honor at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair. On International Children’s Book Day, join us in discussing the impacts of neoliberalization on Philippine publishing; the Palestinian struggle’s movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions as applied to cultural work and the fair in particular; and how publishers, writers, and book makers all…

  • On the Frankfurt Book Fair, Bagong Pilipinas, and Palestine

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    Published on Rappler.com on Feb 1, 2024 Faye Cura
 After years of lobbying by the National Book Development Board, the Philippines was finally named Guest of Honor in the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF). The Guest of Honor has the important task of increasing attendance to the fair. A Guest of Honor country’s publishing industry…

  • Panawagan para sa mga Akda: DANAS NG PAGGAWA

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    Matatagpuan ang kababaihang manggagawa sa iba’t ibang saray ng lipunan. Sa kabila ng ambag sa ekonomiya, hinahambalos ang kababaihang manggagawa ng matinding kahirapan, kagutuman, pang-aabuso, pagsasamantala at karahasan. Masasalamin ang masaklap na kalagayan ng kababaihang manggagawa sa sala-salabid na pasanin nila tulad ng pagsirit ng presyo ng mga bilihin, tubig, at kuryente; kawalan ng libre at de-kalidad…

  • Rebolusyonaryong Pag-ibig

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    ng Tambisan sa SiningBinasa sa paglulunsad ng Pulang Pag-ibig ni Alexandra Kollontai, salin ni Faye Cura, Gantala Press 2024October 25, 2024 Mula sa Tambisan sa Sining, maalab na pagbati sa Gantala Press, kay Faye Cura, at sa lahat ng nagsumikap para sa pagsasalin ng Pulang Pag-ibig ni Alexandra Kollontai. Bukod pa sa selebrasyon ng sining,…

  • Kabuluhan ng Rebolusyong Ruso sa Ating Pakikibaka

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    ni Sarah RaymundoPakikiisa sa Paglulunsad ng Pulang Pag-ibig ni Alexandra Kollontai, salin ni Faye Cura, Gantala Press 202425 October 2024 Noong Nobyembre 6 at 7, 1917, (Oktubre 24 at 25 sa Julian calendar) naging posible ang tila imposible sa napakahabang panahon: ang pagkakamit ng mga manggagawa at magsasaka ng karapatang lumikha ng isang estadong sosyalista.…

  • Paglulunsad: PULANG PAG-IBIG

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    LUNSAD-AKLATPulang Pag-ibig ni Alexandra Kollontai,salin ni Faye Cura mula sa 1927 na edisyong Ingles Oktubre 25, 2024 (Biyernes)Ika-3 ng haponBalay Kalinaw, UP Diliman Tampok ang isang talakayan tungkol sa panitikan at pagsasalin, estado ng kababaihang manggagawa, at patuloy na halaga ng Rebolusyong Ruso sa ika-107 na anibersaryo nito. Kasama ang Nexperia Philippines, Inc. Workers’ Union,…

  • Small Pressing Issues at the MIBF

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    Gantala Press’ relationship with the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) began in 2017 or thereabouts after the release of our first two books — one a collection of new writings by women in the country and abroad; the other a set of essays by women on Mindanao and the Marawi Siege. As a newly formed…

  • A Cyclone of Untold Stories

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    By Pheona Camille M. ParidoBA Communication ArtsUniversity of the Philippines Tacloban CollegeI was thinking out loud about how much I love the yellow-white lampshade in my room one evening when all of my nieces and nephews started laughing. They all come from Lower Caynaga, a barangay in the municipality of Lope de Vega, Northern Samar,…

  • Gantala Press Launches Romance Line with Joi Barrios Novelas and Poems

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    On June 29, Gantala Press will launch Librong Laso, our new series of Tagalog feminist romance novels. Librong Laso’s first offerings are three novelas by Joi Barrios and a collection of Barrios’ love poetry. With Librong Laso, Gantala Press hopes to contribute further to the discourse and scholarship on popular literature. To make them more…

  • “Independent Publishing” sa Panahon ng Henosidyo

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    Unang nilahad sa “Indie Talks: Literary Production and Contemporary Writing in Alternative Publishing Spaces,” UP Los Baños, Abril 18, 2024. Bahagyang inedit at pinalawig ang teksto. Kapag sinabing “independent publishing” sa Pilipinas, agad matutukoy na hindi ito ang malalaking publishing house na gaya ng Anvil; o ang academic publishing houses gaya ng UP Press. Karaniwan,…