Category: Resources
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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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Filipinos are Palestinians: Boycott the Frankfurt Book Fair!
The Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani wrote that imperialism had “laid its body over the world,” and that the Palestinian cause is “a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is. A cause of the exploited and oppressed masses.” Kanafani declared, and we chant this today, “In our thousands in our millions we are all Palestinians.”(1) The…
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Bakit Boycott? An online forum on the Frankfurt Book Fair and Palestine
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…
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The Art of Anthologizing
Hello! I am Faye Cura of Gantala Press and we’ll be sharing how we have been putting together various anthologies as a feminist small press. Gantala Press prioritizes publishing the narratives of communities over that of individual authors, so most of our works are anthologies or collections of writings. Our very first book, Danas: mga…
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On Movements & Moments / “Let the River Flow Free”
Good morning from the Philippines. Thank you to Literaturhaus Basel for inviting us. I am Faye Cura of Gantala Press, a feminist small press based in Metro Manila. We wrote the comics Let the River Flow Free: Women Defenders of the Cordillera with the artist Nina Martinez. The comics is part of the Movements and Moments…
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Mother Tining: A Narrative
Handwritten account by Leticia “Tining” Bula-at of the people’s resistance against the Chico River Dam in Kalinga, 1970s-1980s. Mother Tining’s story is adapted in comics in Let the River Flow Free/Lasst Den Fluss Fliessen/Dawwang for Goethe Institut’s Movements and Moments: Feminist Generations project. 1. It was between 1974 and 1977 — this was how long…
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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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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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A beginner’s guide to Philippine feminism
If you’re looking for an entry point towards understanding the women’s movement in the Philippines, CNN Philippines Life Staff compiled a list of literature and films that can get you started. Definitely not a definitive list!