Category: Talks
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Resistance, Contradiction, and Critique: Committed Writing Now
Faye CuraKeynote speech at the 5th Edel Garcellano ConferenceAteneo de Manila University, November 29, 2025 Magandang umaga sa lahat. Thank you to the organizers of the 5th Edel Garcellano Academic Conference for inviting me to deliver the keynote speech on the theme, “Committed Writing Now.” As a committed non-academic, I am super humbled. I am…
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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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“Independent Publishing” sa Panahon ng Henosidyo
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,…
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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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Bugtong at Saludsod: Ang Tatlong Batayang Problema ng Pilipinas sa mga Tula ni Kerima Lorena Tariman
Maikling pagpapakilala muna sa pamagat ng talakayan ngayong hapon. Ang “bugtong at saludsod (Ilokano para sa tanong)” ay mula sa tula ni Kerima na pinamagatang “malapyudalismo.” Ano ang isang bagay na pinagbabahaginan o shared ng bugtong at tanong? Pareho silang nangangailangan ng sagot. Sa mga tula ni Kerima, ang sagot na ito ang sinikap niyang…
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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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One Publishes to Find Comrades
Bago pa man ang pandemya, mga dantaon bago ang pandemyang ito, nagpuprotesta na ang taumbayan, kabilang na ang kababaihan, laban sa mapaniil na pamamalakad ng maykapangyarihan. Sa katunayan, ang unang batid na welga ng manggagawa sa Pilipinas ay gawa ng mga cigarrera noong 1816. Humiling sila ng tamang mga kundisyon sa paggawa, tamang oras ng…
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Women Writing in the Pandemic
Gantala Press is a feminist small press and literary collective based in Metro Manila. We produce and publish books and zines (which are self-published, non-commercial, often homemade publications), and organize art-related projects with artists and groups. We started our collective in 2015 in response to the underrepresentation of women in literary institutions. At that time,…