Gantala Press

Project Type: Essays

  • TOWARD A NATIONALIST FEMINISM

    TOWARD A NATIONALIST FEMINISM

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    gantalapress

    Toward a Nationalist FeminismDelia D. Aguilar Kritika Kultura in partnership with Gantala Press celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of Delia D. Aguilar’s Toward a Nationalist Feminism, a collection of twelve essays published in 1998 by Gloria F. Rodriguez of Giraffe Books—an independent publishing house that provided a platform for women writers in the Philippines. Spanning the…

  • BINHI NG PAGLAYA

    BINHI NG PAGLAYA

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    gantalapress

    Dahil hangga’t ikinukulongat pinapatay nila ang mga naglilingkodsa mga mahihirap at magsasaka,walang puwangpara sa siphayo o panlulumodahil kami,tayo ay mga muntingbinhi ng paglaban. – mula sa “Binhi ng Paglaya” Binhi ng PaglayaAmanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis “Patunay ang aklat na ito na kailanmaý di masasagkaan ng rehas at mataas na pader ang mapanuring kaisipan at malikhaing…

  • PANAGLAGIP

    PANAGLAGIP

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    gantalapress

    Here are memories of people who live in Northern Luzon during the Marcos dictatorship, but lived the tyranny not in being by it but by resisting the stranglehold. All of the writers were young then, usually students in the various schools and universities. They write of memories about joining political demonstrations, spending their free time…

  • NECESSARY CONTEXTS

    NECESSARY CONTEXTS

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    gantalapress

    THE CEREMONY of remembering the dead is in full flower even as the living continue to be restricted by the pandemic. On television reportage on the rise and fall of the costs of cut flowers deemed needed for the ceremony bordered on the trite, as did footage of the pedestrian flow — children and elderly…

  • MAKISAWSAW Vol 2

    MAKISAWSAW Vol 2

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    gantalapress

    Solidarity is coming together and saying that we have failed as a society when the survival and existence of a group of people depend solely on charity. It means that we raise our voices to demand that this should not be so. Solidarity shows us the power of compassion and individual agency to help each…

  • LIGHTING THE FIRE

    LIGHTING THE FIRE

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    gantalapress

    By the end of the ’eighties, there were enough of us already experienced in organizing, in planning campaigns, in mobilizing resources for events that few should have been surprised that thousands of women across the country—sharing a strong urge to make a future where unjust traditions that limited women could be overturned if we worked…

  • COVID-19 Journals

    COVID-19 Journals

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    gantalapress

    Sana marami pang maisulat na mga kuwentong sumasalamin sa sitwasyon ng mga katulad kong mag-isang lumalaban sa buhay. Dumarami ang aming hanay; nakikita ko ang ilan (mapa-lalaki man o babae) sa korte, sa trabaho, sa lansangan. At marami rin akong nababasa online na mga istorya ng kanilang buhay, kadalasan ay dumadaing at humihingi ng saklolo;…

  • SALOOBIN

    SALOOBIN

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    gantalapress

    Nagpapasalamat po ako sa mga sumusuporta sa amin hanggang sa ngayon. Nagpapatatag sa akin ang pagsuporta ng mga tao. Sa mga kasama, nagpupugay ako sa inyo dahil sa ganitong kinahaharap natin ngayon, patuloy pa rin ang suporta ninyo sa akin. Sa pamilya ko rin po, sana ay magtuloy-tuloy pa rin po ang pagkakaisa natin. Iyong…

  • WILDFIRE

    WILDFIRE

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    gantalapress

    Tell her how to stay silentDuring a revolutionShow her how to thrust this bladeBack inside her throbbing woundThis wildfire is a woman’sYou must think it does not burn – From “Wildfire” by Fritzie Rodriguez Wildfire: Filipina Lesbian Writings There is a need to bring to light the narratives of women-loving-women often invisible or silenced in…

  • PA-LIWANAG

    PA-LIWANAG

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    gantalapress

    I loved you in my mother tonguea language that does not drip or flowwith all its gnashing consonants: the ks andthe ts and the ns, and hard, stern vowel soundstripping the tongue like rocks and bouldersriddling the Karayan Buaya in the summertime,daradar, kalgaw, see? But you already know that.It was the language that welcomed youinto…