I recently received this beautiful book, Xyza Cruz Bacani’s We Are Like Air, which I thought I was ready…


Pinay and Pinxy Recommended Reading/Crowdsourced List 2018
This is becoming tradition. I’ve asked folks on social media to share titles of Pinay and Pinxy authored…

More About “Filipinos Do Not Read”
I am an educator, an adjunct professor. I have been teaching undergrads and grad students for over a…

For Filipino American History Month, Revisiting the Idea that “Filipinos Do Not Read”
This is how myth-making happens, no? One source, whoever they are, however reliable or unreliable they are, says…

Who I’m reading right now: Marianne Chan, Jan-Henry Gray
A couple of young Filipinx poets’ works have recently caught my attention, and I am happy to see…

WE: Pilipinx Poetics, Kapwa Poetics
[L-R: PJ Gubatina Policarpio, Catalina Cariaga, Barbara Jane Reyes, Shirley Ancheta. Photo credit: Anthony Bongco] Lookit us, how…
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