Kinatay

[Edit: Cross-posted sa Racialicious. Makisali sa diskusyon.] Let me get this out of the way first. This is not a movie review. It is a review of movie reviews about Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay. Spoilers follow, though the title pretty much tells you what you’re gonna get. Last weekend, Filipino director Brillante Mendoza won the best [...]

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Outside

It’s been a pretty cool but intense semester, both online and off. I’m in a couple of postcolonial theory classes, so my offline writing has gotten way too cultural-lit, although there’s been a lot of valuable reading that I eventually hope to incorporate. One of those po-co theory classes has been particularly tense, because it’s [...]

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Obligatory birthday post

Not mine. The blog’s. I totally missed the first blog-anniversary, in fact, since Tanglad was born in April 2008. It’s been a cool year. I look back at what I previously wrote. Some of it, I’m happy about. Some of it makes me cringe. But I’m happy that I’m writing and thinking. I’m happy to [...]

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The Deviant Mother

(Late reflections for Mother’s Day) Of all the made-up commercial holidays, Mother’s Day, for me, is the least irritating. After all, if I was going to be guilted into blowing money on cards, flowers, and the obligatory brunch, at least it was going to be for Mom. So to moms everywhere, y’all rock. And this [...]

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