Ria Valdez

Ria Valdez is from Davao City. She teaches in the Department of Humanities in UP Mindanao. Her works are published in Dx Machina: Literature in the Time of COVID-19; Tingle: Anthology of Pinay Lesbian Writing, Plus/+, At Iba Plus, Maramihan: New Philippine Prose on Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities, and Press:100 Love Letters. A collection of her poems entitled “Sum of Her Parts” was published last 2021 under the Road Map Series.

  • Our Voices, Words of Law

    “Law is associated with literature from its inception as a finalized attempt to structure reality through language.”-Kieran Dolin   When we talk about justice, or social justice for that matter, we do not think of literature first. We might have thought of the law, courts, trials, the scales of justice. But not poems, one-act plays,…