Building para-academes as institutional critique
“Notes on Pagkamulat: On Institutional Alternatives and Beyond”: A critical response to slant school by Jessa C. Suganob
Reimagining practices of consciousness raising
“Pagkamulat, Consciousness Raising, and the Possibility of Changing Unjust Social Structures”: A critical response to slant school by PJ Mariano-Capistrano, PhD
heresy
In an artist residency program, her teacher, well-trained in the somatic practices and technologies, said, “… we usually do not say what exactly needs to be said.”
sociology aslant
Class, a defining feature of the experience of Philippine society, is both abstract and material, acute and slippery in all the ways that Filipinos (consciously or unconsciously) understand their identity. In fact not only their identity. But their possibility.
The Turning of the Season
Summer is not a tender season for me. It is the combination of the consequences of fickle socializations and structural limitations that precluded me from living with the seasons, the flow of time.
The University as a Site of Contestation
There’s never a moment when the university isn’t actually deeply involved in the problematic domination of the land and of people.
Letters to the Writer: On Becoming Descendant
There’s a caricature of the Filipino literary scene over the last century: the dominance of academia, the culture of patronage politics, the epicenter for elitism, the binary of aesthetics versus politics . . . I ‘grew up’ in this contemporary literary culture.
agritriptych
I’d like to situate the conventional mistrust of fake women: food and love. Growing up as a girl, I was often willing to starve in both contexts.
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?
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.
