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the first issue of makiling review is now out, which includes the (revised) chapter 1 of my undergraduate thesis. i'm really proud of this article, because it is basically my years of discontent as a non-inglishero writer in english finally purged on the page.
this article features many hits such as the following:
& more ✌️✌️✌️
Hello! I am raising funds for my mother, Jane, who is disabled with leg injuries and an unemployed senior, to get her car fixed and maintain
Hello! I am raising funds for my mother, Jane, who is disabled with leg injuries and an unemployed senior, to get her car fixed and maintained. During the years prior the pandemic, since 2008, we had a family business of baking brownies and other pastries, which my mother delivered to schools and hospitals by herself driving the car. She also did most of the baking labor while my siblings and I helped with packaging during the weekends, after coming home from university. By the time the pandemic put a stop to this business due to lockdowns, my mother had already sustained multiple leg injuries and undergone surgery for nerve damage on one ankle, largely due to the back-breaking work of baking thousands of pieces of pastries and delivery to two provinces without assistance. By 2021, we moved together in Metro Manila, which transitioned the car from a delivery vehicle to one that is for personal use.
This year, the car is nine years old, and very necessary for my mother and our household of disabled family members to use to get around, do emergency medicine runs, and other errands. My mother has a stiff knee and while the nerve damage in one ankle healed, another nerve damage hapoened on the other ankle, which had undergone surgery as well, but to this day would flare up every few days or weeks. This means she cannot use Manila's public transportation, which is very hostile to disabled passengers. She was a stay-at-home mother for most of her life and the baking business was just enough to get us by each month, but not enough for her to have any savings now.
Recently, she got the car checked and the quotation given to us amounted to over PHP 100k in total which we cannot afford to get done. It is important for the car to be maintained for her mobility, so I am doing this campaign on her behalf. In our household, two of my siblings, with disabilities, are still in university, and while I am the breadwinner, my salary is not enough to cover the car expense, since I have my own disability treatment needs too.I am attaching the screenshots of the quotation given to my mother. The total amount I inputted in this campaign, which exceeds the amount in the quotation, is to cover any processing fee.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you so much.
Cleaning up again! hey @rayjideguia
Hello! I am raising funds for my mother, Jane, who is disabled with leg injuries and an unemployed senior, to get her car fixed and maintain
Hello! I am raising funds for my mother, Jane, who is disabled with leg injuries and an unemployed senior, to get her car fixed and maintained. During the years prior the pandemic, since 2008, we had a family business of baking brownies and other pastries, which my mother delivered to schools and hospitals by herself driving the car. She also did most of the baking labor while my siblings and I helped with packaging during the weekends, after coming home from university. By the time the pandemic put a stop to this business due to lockdowns, my mother had already sustained multiple leg injuries and undergone surgery for nerve damage on one ankle, largely due to the back-breaking work of baking thousands of pieces of pastries and delivery to two provinces without assistance. By 2021, we moved together in Metro Manila, which transitioned the car from a delivery vehicle to one that is for personal use.
This year, the car is nine years old, and very necessary for my mother and our household of disabled family members to use to get around, do emergency medicine runs, and other errands. My mother has a stiff knee and while the nerve damage in one ankle healed, another nerve damage hapoened on the other ankle, which had undergone surgery as well, but to this day would flare up every few days or weeks. This means she cannot use Manila's public transportation, which is very hostile to disabled passengers. She was a stay-at-home mother for most of her life and the baking business was just enough to get us by each month, but not enough for her to have any savings now.
Recently, she got the car checked and the quotation given to us amounted to over PHP 100k in total which we cannot afford to get done. It is important for the car to be maintained for her mobility, so I am doing this campaign on her behalf. In our household, two of my siblings, with disabilities, are still in university, and while I am the breadwinner, my salary is not enough to cover the car expense, since I have my own disability treatment needs too.I am attaching the screenshots of the quotation given to my mother. The total amount I inputted in this campaign, which exceeds the amount in the quotation, is to cover any processing fee.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you so much.
my new short story "Paradiso Resort" is now out at Singapore Unbound's SUSPECT journal! i'm very grateful to the editor Faith Ho for going through this manuscript with me and to Rimbun Dahan for the space given that i was able write this in its current form. 💖
read it HERE.
to raise funds for my grad school application, i have uploaded the critical edition of "balikbayan", which comes with extra materials that give historical and political context to the narrative.
it is available for $3.00 here.
do/nations are accepted here.
thank you!
to raise funds for my grad school application, i have uploaded the critical edition of "balikbayan", which comes with extra materials that give historical and political context to the narrative.
it is available for $3.00 here.
do/nations are accepted here.
thank you!
my new short story "Paradiso Resort" is now out at Singapore Unbound's SUSPECT journal! i'm very grateful to the editor Faith Ho for going through this manuscript with me and to Rimbun Dahan for the space given that i was able write this in its current form. 💖
read it HERE.
very grateful to two sylvias press and the judge for this year's chapbook prize oliver de la paz for choosing PRAYER FOR ABSENCE as runner-up ✨️ these twenty-four poems were written over many years, through turmoil, in the aftermath.
Editing and Workshop Services
I am offering editing and workshop services to fund my graduate school application and other needs. My USD rates are higher to take into account Paypal conversion, transfer fees, and value difference. Here are the editing services I offer:
Poetry Workshop: Critique and feedback on the craft of your poetry, focusing on the poetic line, sound, metaphor, and structure. This entails a line-by-line annotation and a discussion session via Zoom.
At least ₱4,000 / $90 for up to three (3) poems, one page each poem. Turnaround is two (2) weeks unless otherwise stated. Add-on service of ₱1,000 / $30 if you wish to turn the video discussion into written commentary.
Sensitivity Reading: Critique and feedback regarding sensitive content in the manuscript. This entails a file with organized comments and suggestions and the live commentary of the first read and, if necessary, a discussion session, either through chat or video.
At least ₱4,000 / $90 per short form fiction (up to 5,000 words). Optional add-on service of ₱2,000 / $55 should formal critique become necessary. Turnaround is two (2) weeks unless otherwise stated.
Full Editing: Critique and feedback on the form, structure, and content of the manuscript. This entails a file with organized comments and suggestions and the live commentary of the first read, the trackchanged file of the manuscript, and, if necessary, a discussion session, either through chat or video.
At least ₱7,000 / $160 per short form fiction (up to 5,000 words). Turnaround is two (2) weeks unless otherwise stated.
Payment: 50% must be paid upfront before I begin. The rest will be paid after I have delivered my comments.
If interested, please get in touch with me via message.
Credentials
I've had roughly ten years of experience in critiquing fiction, poetry, and writing in general: I was an instructor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where I handled courses on writing, for two years; from 2014 to 2016, I was the workshop committee head of UP Writers Club; aside from having taken up workshop classes in UP Diliman, I was also a fellow for fiction in the 1st IWP Alumni Writers Workshop, 2nd Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Writers Workshop, 2nd GlobalGRACE-UP National LGBTQ Writers Workshop, and the 2021 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.; and I was workshop panelist for the 2022 Malate Writers’ Workshop and 2023 Cordillera Creative Writing Workshop. I've also received prizes from the 2nd Gémino H. Abad Awards for Poetry and for Literary Criticism and the 69th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature
"Owing to the fact that for the first two decades of my life I was not versed in the language, I would experience a sense of displacement when engaging with the English prose. Despite not having anything to show for it, neither setting nor language, it was as if the stories were only claiming they’d happened in the Philippines."
the introduction of my undergraduate thesis, "it happened in the philippines", is now available as a free zine on itch.io here.
✨️dramaturgy✨️with the help of my assistant dramaturg nikka de torres.
the idea for both the front of house and the souvenir program is to give political context about Balikbayan, linking various struggles together, locally and internationally. when we prepared to decorate the FOH, i printed a bunch of headlines that look like newspaper cut-outs. nikka and i first arranged them on the table, but the collage isn't random. we deliberated how each cut-out will lead to the adjacent cut-outs, going around the sysnthesized "political milieu" text organically. combined with the timeline in the souvernir peogram, our goal was to ease the audience into a deeper understanding of stella and katrina, as well as juday, and their experiences as people in the global south. Balikbayan's narrative asserts, ultimately, that gender is inextricably tied to class under the influence of US imperialism.
bonus: a peek into the dramaturgical presentation given to the team weeks prior.
finally, here's the poster for BALIKBAYAN by AMD Cardoso, directed by Banaue Miclat, and adapted from my short story of the same title.
save the date! april 13, 2024 @ IBG-KAL gallery. we have a really amazing prod team and set of actors <3 #Balikbayan2024
On October 11, 2014, Jennifer Laude, a Filipino trans woman, was killed by US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton, whose presence in Zambales was made possible by the Visiting Forces Agreement.
In September 2020, then President Rodrigo Duterte, known for his misogyny and whose regime was marked by extrajudicial killings from his drug war and anti-communist crusade, granted Pemberton absolute pardon, cutting short his time served by four years. Months prior in the same year, during the height of the pandemic, the Congress railroaded the passing of the anti-terrorism bill amidst rampant red-tagging of activists and dissidents; LGBTQIA+ protesters were arrested, detained, and harassed by police.
Under the current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the largest Balikatan Exercise took place in 2023, a military exercise that was bolstered by counterterrorism training since the War on Terror campaign by the US. His father, former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., serving as the blueprint of violence and repression for Duterte, formalized the export of Filipino labor through the 1974 Labor Code in an attempt to stimulate the struggling economy, resulting in the human trafficking of Filipinos to this day.
This is the political milieu that informs the narrative of “Balikbayan. Through the protagonist Stella, a trans woman, whose motivation is to find her missing sister Katrina, supposedly teaching in Texas but ended up as a victim of tokhang in the Philippines eleven years later, the play tackles the entanglements of the US War on Drugs and Terror, neoliberalism, and extrajudicial killings under the Duterte regime, and how women, both trans and cis, are subjugated and dehumanized by the same system.
Like our page and save the date!
April 13, 2024, 7 PM @ IGB Gallery, UP Diliman
#Balikbayan #Balikbayan2024
On October 11, 2014, Jennifer Laude, a Filipino trans woman, was killed by US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton, whose presence in Zambales was made possible by the Visiting Forces Agreement.
In September 2020, then President Rodrigo Duterte, known for his misogyny and whose regime was marked by extrajudicial killings from his drug war and anti-communist crusade, granted Pemberton absolute pardon, cutting short his time served by four years. Months prior in the same year, during the height of the pandemic, the Congress railroaded the passing of the anti-terrorism bill amidst rampant red-tagging of activists and dissidents; LGBTQIA+ protesters were arrested, detained, and harassed by police.
Under the current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the largest Balikatan Exercise took place in 2023, a military exercise that was bolstered by counterterrorism training since the War on Terror campaign by the US. His father, former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., serving as the blueprint of violence and repression for Duterte, formalized the export of Filipino labor through the 1974 Labor Code in an attempt to stimulate the struggling economy, resulting in the human trafficking of Filipinos to this day.
This is the political milieu that informs the narrative of “Balikbayan. Through the protagonist Stella, a trans woman, whose motivation is to find her missing sister Katrina, supposedly teaching in Texas but ended up as a victim of tokhang in the Philippines eleven years later, the play tackles the entanglements of the US War on Drugs and Terror, neoliberalism, and extrajudicial killings under the Duterte regime, and how women, both trans and cis, are subjugated and dehumanized by the same system.
Like our page and save the date!
April 13, 2024, 7 PM @ IGB Gallery, UP Diliman
#Balikbayan #Balikbayan2024
Initially an exercise on writing mostly dialogue, as chismis, and under 3k words, I completed the first draft of "Balikbayan" in 2021 while ruminating about the connection between funerarias and police under Duterte.
It was my friend Sigrid Gayangos, one of the first readers, who envisioned it as a play in a tweet. My playwright friend May Cardoso saw the tweet and volunteered to adapt it. During the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, my panelist and co-fellows, all Americans, told me there is more to the story. It turns out they were right, because when I finally let go of the limitations I set for myself (chismis, under 3k words), it grew into its current form (chismis and beki, more than 7k words). Stella and Katrina as sisters and foils were developed further in the final draft.
Until last year, May and I had only vague plans for the adaptation. Somehow everything fell into place when "Balikbayan"'s publication timeline fit May's MFA Exit Program timeline. Before "Balikbayan" was even out, May and I were already working together—my first venture into theatre as a dramaturg. I sent her my writing notes and references to aid her adaptation and discussed the context and my narrative decisions.
When I was revising "Balikbayan", I played with time. There are two time settings, the linear present and the past unfolding in reverse. In the present, backstories are also embedded, which make the transition from page to stage a bit complicated. May's adaptation is nothing short of ingenuity. She utilizes things onstage in ways I can never think of, without sacrificing affect and gravitas. I think my favorite might have been relaying Stella's memory of how her cousins treated her. I've been keeping the script secret even from our closest friends for the full experience of watching it come to life.
I conceived "Balikbayan" to be decisively feminist and anti-imperialist, written years after the death of Jennifer Laude at the hands of US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton, who was granted absolute pardon by Duterte. Before this, his charge was already lowered to homicide due to his use of trans panic as defense. Under the same system and regime, tokhang victims, most often the poor, are vilified as NPA, prostitute, or drug addict to justify their death. It was necessary for me to trust a playwright who fully understands the politics embedded in the story. I'm so happy to have trusted May with "Balikbayan".
Like our page and save the date! April 13, 2024, 7 PM @ IGB Gallery, UP Diliman
#Balikbayan #Balikbayan2024
angeli lacson's Unbecoming with paper trail projects is my fifth book cover ✨
(photos swiped from PTP)
