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Aida F. Santos

Aida F. Santos won awards in the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Gawad Gantimpala and The Free Press literary contest. She was a writing Fellow for the UP Creative Writing Center and was an awardee for the BAYI Centennial Awards 2011 for feminism and leadership. She won the UMPIL Gawad Balagtas for Filipino poetry for 2020 and is included in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Artists and Writers. Her Mangled Mornings, Collected Poems and Pana-panahon, Tinipong mga Tula were published by Gantala Press in 2019.
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nothing has changed only the forms of it

nothing has changed only the forms of it when we wedded the struggle brought us before a mayor who joked, run as fast as you can don’t let the dictator catch you

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Darning

When all is done, Mama shows mehow to knot the final stitch, carefulnot to tug too tightly at the thread.The doctor must have performedthe same art on my birthing mother. Replace the surgical lightwith afternoon sun and the ob-gynremembers how her mother mendsthe bedsheets, the holes in the...

Discerning the age of innocence

It was probably the most unsettling and shocking piece of news that broke during that second week of October. After eating his share of hotdog and marshmallow-on-a-stick, a boy, aged 3, uses the stick to stab the heart of his four-year-old girl playmate. The girl dies, but lives...

More than old houses: Why conservation matters in a changing Philippines

In the heart of Quiapo stands the historic Bahay Nakpil-Bautista, a living witness to the nation's struggle for independence, cultural identity, and collective memory. Its wooden floors, stone foundations, antique furnishings, and family heirlooms tell stories that cannot be found in textbooks alone. Yet beyond its architectural beauty,...