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“Auntie Olga”
This essay is the first of many written during a Memoir Writing workshop at Sunshine Place under the mentorship of Dr. Oscar Peñaranda, a Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas awardee. An educator, author, and advocate of Filipino-American studies, Dr. Peñaranda’s work includes “Seasons...
A NEVER ENDING STORY: Lumads of Mindanao & their fight to keep their ancestral land
From 19 October to 02 November 2015, the Philippines Graphic ran a three-part feature on the Manobos of Mindanao. Below is the COMPLETE SERIES
PART 1: "I am Roland Dalin, Talaingod, Manobo"October 19, 2015
On the Talaingod side of the majestic 12,600 square-kilometer Pantaron Mountains,...
Why it’s worth remembering Paeng Salas
The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has been generating interest on the life and times of the late Rafael “Paeng” M. Salas, first executive director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and creator of the first population program of...
Miranda bombing: Beyond the scars
Fifty years ago, on the night of Aug. 21, 1971, two grenades were lobbed at a Liberal Party rally at Manila’s iconic Plaza Miranda, killing nine people and nearly wiping out the then-opposition’s top guns.
Among the wounded: Jovito Salonga, who would become the...
The Birth of Bikoliana Klasika
Allow me to highlight the work of translation as an integral part in writing our literary histories. For it is very seldom that we consider translation or a trans-creation or an adaptation as part of what we may call as the “literary canon.”
Devoid...
Olympics Japan: The Surreal Games
After a yearlong delay and months of hand-wringing that rippled across a pandemic-inflected world, a Summer Games unlike any other is at hand. It’s an Olympics, sure, but also, in a very real way, something quite different.
No foreign fans. No local attendance in...
