Tag: COVID-19
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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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Online Learning in Analog: ED x Zine Making Workshop
The shift to online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a series of challenges for the education system. Decades of deep-seated problems and injustices have emerged and are exacerbated as Filipino teachers and students adapt to the “new normal” brought by the health crisis. AGHAM Educators in partnership with Gantala Press held…
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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,…
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Of Woman Born: A Labor Day 2020 Statement
We are in the throes of delivering a “new normal.” This could be a twin or a more evil brother of the inhumane old world, or another world which we have never experienced, and yet long for. We feel restless in our confinement, distrustful of the powers that be, uncertain of the times. But the…
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Pahayag sa Lockdown
Hangad ng Gantala Press ang maayos at ligtas na pagpapatupad ng pamahalaan sa enhanced community quarantine, sakaling pahabain pa ito. Nakikipagkaisa kami sa iba’t ibang sektor upang matiyak na maisakatuparan ito. Kaakibat ng mga hakbangin upang sugpuin and COVID-19 ay ang pagsang-alang alang sa kalagayan ng kababaihan! Mahigit isang buwan na mula nang ipinatupad ang…