Debris

I’ve been thinking of a comment bfp left here a few weeks ago
…because of borders, I became “mexican” rather than indigenous…
and reflecting on how maps and borders classify people, instead of the other way around.
In Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson studied how cultural instruments such as maps, the census, and museums were not only a result [...]

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Ambahan

In 2002, Elena Garcdoce Francisco, a 102-year-old Tumandok woman, journeyed to Iloilo City from her mountain home in Panay. She sang an ambahan, protesting the destruction wrought by militarization in her ancestral lands. These military incursions date back to at least 1962, under then President Diosdado Macapagal.
This practice of telling stories through poetry and chants [...]

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