Category: Essays
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Hanggang sa Tagumpay: Boycott Frankfurt Book Fair
At the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) or Frankfurter Buchmesse, the FBF-funded LitProm association canceled that year’s LiBeraturpreis for Palestinian writer Adania Shibli “due to the war started by Hamas.” This “war” referred to the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, which Zionists and their supporters have since used to justify Israel’s decimation of Palestine.…
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On the Frankfurt Book Fair, Bagong Pilipinas, and Palestine
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…
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Wika at Uri: Paglalathala at Pagsasalin ng mga Akda ng Kababaihan sa Komunidad*
Mga ilang taon na ang nakaraan, nakasama akong magpadaloy ng isang palihan sa tula sa komunidad ng mga manggagawa. Kasama ko ang dalawang lalaki: ang pangulo ng organisasyon na kinabibilangan ko at ang isang masasabi nang haligi ng organisasyon na isa ring propesor sa isang tanyag na pribadong pamantasan. Nagmula ang paanyaya sa isang madre…
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That Year We Don’t Want To But Should Remember: A 2020 Planner
By Roma Estrada Twenty-twenty is a worst year, that much most of us can agree on, especially for planner freaks. With all those schedules cancelled or moved until further notice, that 2020 planner we bought back when we still had guts to say “bring it on” had probably remained a white void or just plain…
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COVID-19 and Beyond
Around the world, it has become clear how disproportionately the pandemic has affected women, especially women from what is called the Global South, in aspects of economy, human rights and security, and decision-making. Many women lost their jobs or economic independence. Women instead of men assumed most of the additional care work or domestic work.…
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Gantala Press is on Local 37 – LUMIN Radio
MOSTYN presents Local 37, a three-part radio series developed in collaboration with LUMIN, an artist-run radio and publisher led by Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse. The radio series will be broadcast weekly on 7th, 14th and 21st December 2020 at 6pm GMT and will be hosted on MOSTYN’s website. The series includes contributions…
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Ang babae ay mandirigma sa kusinang banyaga
By Purple Romero “Patsam” — that’s what Ate Rowena, a Filipina domestic worker in Hong Kong, says when I ask her what she is cooking. Her answer initially registers to me as a local Cantonese dish, what with the usual inviting mix of greens and pork, its sapid scent teasing my nostrils. But Ate Rowena…
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Tungo sa Pagkilala sa Pagkakakilanlan
Ni Roda Tajon Many people believe that gender identity … is rooted in biology … Many other people understand that gender is more like language than like biology; that is, while they understand us humans to have a biological capacity to use language, they point out we are not born with a hard-wired language “preinstalled”…
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Theater as a Mirror of Reality?: Reflections on the “Ang Huling El Bimbo: The Hit Musical” Debate
By Kiel Ramos Suarez* On May 7, 2020, ABS-CBN streamed Ang Huling El Bimbo: The Hit Musical (AHEB) online on YouTube and Facebook for free. In 48 hours, the video garnered around 7 million views and stirred conversations among friends, family members, and even strangers on the Internet. Like many who watched the show, I…