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parang gusto ko magtangkang magsulat sa buwan ng wika na istriktong tagalog lang ang hanay, pero kahit alin ang paksa? Siguro hinde naman katindi ng araw-araw't 'di naman ako manunulat talaga, tila practice lang naman . . .

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Asian workshops produced a number of devotional items for people in Spanish America. Many of these were made of meticulously carved ivory, such as this small sculpture of the Virgin Mary, made in the Philippines in the 1700s:

Here’s another Mary, this one probably from Fujian, China:

See more, including figures assembled in both Asia and the Americas, here:

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“Red is the first color of the rainbow” - Pro-LGBT propaganda poster from Filipino communist Emiliana Kampilan (c. 2019)

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punk scene in the philippines by sidney snoeck

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"For the baylan and catalonan—female ritual specialists of animist practice—the introduction of Christianity by male Spanish priests brought a more catastrophic loss of power and status. Such women had earned respect, authority, and their livelihood by conducting public ceremonies, making diwata and anito, treating the sick and dying, and attending women in childbirth. All these activities came under attack by friars in what Carolyn Brewer terms “holy confrontation.” Beginning with the arrival of Magellan, the friars relentlessly pursued the destruction—and sometimes desecration—of anito in their effort to displace the old religion and its practitioners. Brewer refutes the conventional picture of peaceful transition from indigenous religion to Catholicism by high-lighting the violence of this process. When anito and other ritual instruments were broken, dragged through villages, burned, or defecated upon by young boys, as encouraged by parish priests, it had the effect of “depowering, dishonoring and defiling the religion of the ancestors.”"

— Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso, State and Society in the Philippines

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Author's Note on the American Edition of The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, Gina Apostol / Gina Apostol's Forward and Vincente L. Rafael's Introduction to Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic / A map of the Philippines

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Filipino poet and feminist critic Lilia Quindoza Santiago has pointed out that the word for grammatical gender in the Philippines is kasarian, and already it semantically affords a little more flexibility than its Western counterpart, which is clearly and hopelessly bifurcated. Sari, repeated in Tagalog-Filipino, is sari-sari, or "all and sundry". Thus, there may well be a kind of diversity to gender that may be allowed by certain if not most cultures in the Philippines.

J. Neil C. Garcia, Performing the Self: Occasional Prose

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Dennis Trillo as Crisostomo Ibarra Maria Clara at Ibarra (2022) dir. Zig Dulay

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Costumes in Maria Clara at Ibarra Pt. 1

Notes and details about the historical costumes from the show according to the stylists. Interview here: (x)

Part 2 of the gifset

Additional notes: Ilustrado is a term for the educated class of Filipinos during the Spanish Colonial period.

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Maligayang pambungad sa aking sulok ng internet!

Ako si Manuel, tukoyin ninyo ako gamit ang He / Él / Siya. Isa akong estudyante sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Diliman. Nasa gulang na ako / mayor de edad, etc. ayun na ang hangganan na ng detalye. Medyo opinyonado, medyo bayot, medyo obobs rin minsan.

Nakakapagsalita ako ng Ingles ng madaliian actually. Just like this :) pero ayoko at buong buhay na akong nag-iingles at gusto ko pa palawakin ang pagbasa, pagsalita at pagsulat sa aking lenguahe. Sana pagpasensyahan ninyo ang aking balarila at bukabularyo.

Kung sino man jaan ang interesado sa arteng biswal at literaturang pilipino (ma-komiks, non-fiction, fiction), usap tayo <3

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libot sa diliman / 28-04-2023

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Nakatanggap ako ng masamang balita ngayon at ako’y nagkikimkim ng damdamin sa ano gagawin ko.

Maalang ‘di ako nalulungkot— kahit na sinasabihan ako ng mga mahal ko sa buhay na wag akong umiyak. Walang ni isang tulo ng luha bumakas saaking mata. Mas nadadama ko pa nga ang kalungkotan nila para saakin kesa sa sarili kong damdamin.

Bakit man ako luluha sa bagay na hindi naman akin? Ilang beses kong natanong sa sarili ko kung handa nga ba talaga akong lumayag? Masyado pa kong maraming bagay na gusto tapusin at daanan kasama ang mga mahal ko sa buhay bago ako lumisan sa pugad.

Meroon at meroon na iba pang chansa, segundo, menuto, linggo, buwan, taon-taon na gusto kong punuin ng kaalaman, ng pagmamahal, ng aral, ng saya, ng luha, ng pera, at ng kabutihan sa higit sa lahat. Andito ako, ngayon, nananatiling totoo sa kalooban ko. Pandayon lang.

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closet queeries’s was rizal gay? essay, j. neil c. garcia

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JOSE RIZAL & ANDRES BONIFACIO

there's a string of fate somewhere in there, right down to the grave

The First Filipino: A Biography of Jose Rizal, Leon Ma. Guerrero • The Religious Character of the Revolution in Cavite, 1896-1897, John N. Schumacher • Jose Rizal: A Man for All Generations, Luis H. Francia • The Philippines: A Past Revisited, From the Spanish Colonization to the Second World War, Renato Constantino • History of the Filipino People, Teodoro A. Agoncillo • Jose Rizal: A Man for All Generations, Luis H. Francia • A Bonifacio pilgrimage, Ambeth R. Ocampo

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El Filibusterismo, José Rizal / Women, Religion, and Spirituality in Asia, Sr. Mary John Mananzan

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'—he should be allowed to speak for himself.'

The First Filipino, Leon Ma. Guerrero

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i think everyone deserves to see Leonardo Tayao Cruz’s special exhibit of twenty-eight “Noli Me Tangere” paintings. they're amazing, beautiful, show stopping, brilliant, never been done before, ethereal, divine, awesome, have I said beautiful? It really is! Here are some of my favorites:

Sa Asotea (Love on a Balcony)

Kamusmusan (Childhood)

Mga Inu-usig (The Oppressed)

Tinig ng mga Inu-usig (Spokesman of the Oppressed)

Vae Victis (Woe to the Vanquished)

Ikakasal si Maria Clara (A wedding for Maria Clara)

Katapusan (Epilogue)

You can see the rest of the collection here: Link. Margaux Camaya wrote a blog/article about it when she visited National Museum of Fine Arts back in 2018.

I just think it's amazing and we should REALLY promote our Filipino artists more. I love you, Noli Me Tangere 28 paintings by Leonardo Tayao Cruz.