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The essence of a country like the Philippines is that it seems to exist in translation—a series of textual mediations must be unraveled in order to reveal who or what it is.

— Gina Apostol

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Our multiple languages are our form of existence, deep and mired in Filipino reality.

I write in English because your country raped mine.

Citizenship to me is not a real thing, but art is. But it's the mirage that kills.

We never see ourselves as others see us. Even in the mirror, we see ourselves backward.

The sea is a memory. It is mesmerising. Its beauty is intolerable. What it buries is vaster than what it reveals.

Insurrecto (2018)

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