2019


  • At Napagod ang Hagdan

    Maya’t maya ang pagdaan mo sa aking mga baytang, Tila isang dambuhalang dumadagan sa katawan. Malimit pang magmadali ang hakbang mong may pagyanig, Na para bang isang lindol at ikaw lang itong manhid.  Kadalasan ay ako rin ang ‘yong tagpuang-pag-ibig, O di kaya ay upuan o patungan ng iyong gamit. Sa akin mo rin iniiwan ang basurang ikinalat, At ang dura…

  • (hI)Law-as

    i. makamingaw imong baybayon.ang mga lusay sa imong hunasan,ang tambasakan sa imong bakawan,imong paghagunghong taliwa sa akong bilahan. pagaisipon sa gihapon nga bugsay imong dila;sa katuyoman, ang akong mga tudlomanghiram sa bakasi nga idlas sa akong mga kamot.

  • Excavating the Trauma: Notes on the Teng Mangansakan’s Forbidden Memory

    If the emotional is too on-top of the speaking voice, surrendering to a guiding thought an idea, a proposition, a question can pass as urgent. In watching the premiere of Gutierrez ‘Teng’ Mangansakan’s Forbidden Memory last 2017, I had to quell a kind of rage gearing to erupt in the wake of a reopened rupture…

  • The Settler Settles In: Locating a Space for the Settler in Rogelio Braga’s Colon

    What if one flees the enemy or better, pursues him only to find that the enemy is one’s self?  Such is the fate of the post-colonial subject, whether identified with the colonizer or the colonized.  Indeed, one could argue that the lines between colonizer and colonized, such as they were drawn, have long bled into…

  • Entre Medio Del Fin (In the Middle of an End)

    SCENE 1 – EXT. PEACE MURAL/ INT. CAR – DAY  A peace mural is seen from inside a moving car. The view is hazy and we can barely see it.  AYESHA, 16, a pregnant Muslim lady is looking at something off screen.  SCENE 2 – WHITE LETTER ON A BLACK BACKGROUND: TITLE  SCENE 3 –…