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Hanging Out with Artist Mona Lunot Kuker

By Marivir R. Montebon   The best things in life are indeed free, especially visiting a friend for a worry-free chat of personal and professional pursuits. It is one thing I like doing best in New York – chatting with friends and whipping up projects along the way. Artist Mona Lunot Kuker shows how her works […]

7 years ago More
 

The Filipino American Love-Hate (Colonial) Relationship

Culling Truths from Old Writings on October Fil-Am Heritage Month By Marivir R. Montebon       New York City – – The month of October, through the celebration of the Fil-Am Heritage, in the US normally brings to focus how tumultuous the relationship of America and the Philippines had been. As the only American colonial […]

7 years ago More
 

Of Queens and Goddesses

Editor’s Notes  By Marivir R. Montebon   The consolidation of the patriarchal relations and the formation of classes is symbolized by the creation of the ‘tree of knowledge of good and evil.’ This was in contradiction to the tree of life which was symbolic of the whole, under the era of the goddess worship of the […]

8 years ago 2 More
 

The Perfect Subversion

By Marivir R. Montebon New York City — Everything that the petite and feisty Ninotchka Rosca said at the Montclair  State University in New Jersey was subversive. Her lecture titled ‘The Colonial Roots of Violence Against Women’ was like an ultra violent movie, it had to issue a warning that it was not meant for […]

8 years ago 7 More
 

Babaylan Ines Carinugan

Stories We Were Told, Stories We Will Tell By Ninotchka Rosca New York City The last major battle in Cagayan Valley, Philippines, against Spanish occupation was waged under the leadership of a woman, a babaylan (priestess) of the Itawes tribe, by the name of Ines Carinugan. A friend emails her story to me, apropos of what, I […]

9 years ago 2 More
 

WOMEN INTERRUPTED

BY MARIVIR R. MONTEBON art by Madonna Davidoff (This article is condensed from the original manuscript of the author that was presented at the University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada in time for the conference on Women writing and reading history in May 2007). It must have been easy and fun in pre-colonial times in […]

10 years ago 4 More
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