The Art of Women’s Struggles Is the Art of Building Community and Making Alternative History

Roma Estrada, Rae Rival and Neferti X. M. Tadiar

Women across the world have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Care responsibilities, which now include teaching children, top off the long-standing problem of unpaid labor such as housework. During the lockdown, women have also been more vulnerable to domestic … Continue reading “The Art of Women’s Struggles Is the Art of Building Community and Making Alternative History”

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Writing to Resist, Writing to Remember: Lumad Youths’ Narratives in the Time of Duterte

Roda Tajon

  Writing—through poetry, essays, and stories—has become a medium for Lumad students to remember their communities: the mountains and rivers, their farms, the vast lands of their ancestral domains that they could have inherited and enriched had militarization stopped. As … Continue reading “Writing to Resist, Writing to Remember: Lumad Youths’ Narratives in the Time of Duterte”

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On Stitching Land and Peasant Women: An Interview with Yllang Montenegro

Camille Aguilar Rosas

The day before Mother’s Day, the Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women launched the #DefendPeasantWomen campaign, responding to intensifying state-inflicted violence against peasant women in the Philippines. The campaign highlights rampant human rights violations suffered by peasant women community organizers … Continue reading “On Stitching Land and Peasant Women: An Interview with Yllang Montenegro”

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