poverty
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Revelations + Destinations
The smell
My parents never taught me how to walk through floods. I would just sit on our old house’s declining wooden…
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Causes + Bosses
The rusted teaspoon
Is this how it goes? Growing up, the saying about being born with a silver spoon or a wooden ladle…
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Revelations + Destinations
‘Sakto lang’
Life has often been described as a journey filled with peaks and valleys, and while this analogy holds true for…
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Baes + Babies
Uncertainty
On my way home from work one night, I took the FX as always. I was the only passenger.
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Revelations + Destinations
To kill a dream
As we opened the balikbayan box from South Korea, my Tita handed me a textbook about the history of humankind.…
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Revelations + Destinations
Other side of the cup
I was up a little too early on a Monday morning. I woke at the crack of dawn to drop…
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Causes + Bosses
Three women
This is a story of three young women from different stations in life who share the same deep commitment to…
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X+Y+Z
My mother’s poverty story
Last night while eating dinner, mom complained about the quality of the rice she bought from the market and how…
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Hooks + Books