Notes on Pagkamulat: Routes and Roots of Radicalism
The radical points to a desire close to Marxist and revolutionary thinking, but more rooted and filial as a Filipino through the posing of a question: Paano ka namulat?
Carissa Pobre
Carissa Pobre is a writer, strategist, and educator from the Philippines. Her latest project is an experimental lecture series (http://slant.school) on class politics, education, and place.
The Necessity of Creative Inquiry in Troubled Times
When we are compelled to change our conditions, as we are called upon to do now, creativity wagers on what is possible.
Solidarity as an Alternative Story of Power
Collective solidarity gives rise to alternative modes and stories of power—in which it is shared, distributed, and kept alive in an interplay of diverse actors.
Selected Prose and Poetry
limits to growth
Among the three of us, we always lived in the north part of the city. By that time, no one will want to live here anymore. But I wasn’t sure.
Selected Prose and Poetry
on conversation
I am always suspected of a sickness, she says. All I want is to trust a man with plain, unshaken faith. I couldn’t speak for days once.
Selected Prose and Poetry
Writing in an Emergency
During crisis, many things become uncertain. In those early days of the Covid-19 pandemic especially, she said, “Everything became immaterial.”
Reading as a Relational Practice
We are readers and listeners of each other, relational, constantly unfolding, re-infolding and taking shape.