Author: Camille Bagaipo

Camille Bagaipo is a writer from Cagayan de Oro with a BFA Creative Writing degree from Ateneo de Manila University. Her main priority is to write about home, so strangers can stop asking her if she rides the carabao to school, which is totally absurd. She rides the serpent to school. It?s faster, more efficient, and can slither through traffic with ease.

  • Festival of Lights

    To grow up in Iponan, is to learn stubborn resistance. Remember the flood? When Iponan river overflowed and buried the barangay in muddied water? After the state of emergency, when families were permitted to leave the musty covered-courts turned evacuation centers, we saw the water lines that stained the walls of our houses. Families swept…