I dislike Andrea Long Chu’s style of review very much but she pinpoints the stupidity and performance of many diasporic writers who get away with talking about their homeland, mother language, and ancestors like magical primitives because a white audience doesn’t know better
@_claireo food itself and HOW food is shared and passed around is also a whole other thing entirely!! eating in ph culture is a social exchange.
please take the time to read this short excerpt on filipino culture and food in From Colonial to Liberation Psychology by V. Enriquez
Our dearest angkol Mike, a worker, transport and community leader all-in-one, just received a baseless and ultimately made up terrorism financing complaint today, Feb 15
Mike after receiving TF complaint against him (and a couple of meetings):
From @DavaoToday : National Democratic Front Eastern Mindanao spokesperson Ka Maria Malaya was reportedly killed in an encounter with the 30th IB in Butuan on Feb 12.
She was the widow of Ka Oris Madlos, spokesperson of the NDF Mindanao, who was killed in Bukidnon in Oct 2021.
david lynch interview about smoking and emphysema has this quote that’s been lodged in my brain. "I don't regret it. It was important to me. I wish what every addict wishes for: that what we love is good for us."