GINHAWA/BREATH: Wholeness and Wellness in the Filipino¹ and Filipino American Experience
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Justin Jones – Black, Filipino, Civil Rights Activist
Justin and Congressman John Lewis, while interning in Washington DC, 2016 Justin Jones, a young Black and Filipino activist, reached out to me in late 2019, asking if I could help him lament the harm caused by anti-Black attitudes in the Filipino communities he grew up in. He wanted to embrace his pagka-Pilipino (Filipino-ness) as much as he embraced his Blackness. So, I introduced him to a few of the Black and Filipino scholars/culture-bearers in my circle, and I hosted a he
Leny Mendoza Strobel: Finding belonging and remembering how to dwell in place (ep320)
“You can use all the deconstructive theories, post-colonial, postmodern theorizing. But then there comes a time when your body begins to speak. What is your body saying? For me, that is when decolonization evolved into something that’s no longer metaphorical—something more real and material. ”
— DR. LENY STROBEL How might we think and act differently if we recognized ourselves in our “Long Body”—seeing our continually transforming identities beyond our physical bodies into th
Archiving Hope
What about yourself cannot be tracked?
Is illegible? Can’t be archived? —Bayo Akomolafe Read the article on ReVision - A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation Krishnamacharya, the father of modern Yoga, towards the end of his life preferred not to talk about his personal history. What was important to him is the distillation of the teachings of Yoga as a path to reduce suffering and to experience unity within the body, mind, and spirit. In this tradition, Memory, as one
16 BOOKS BY FILIPINA AUTHORS YOU SHOULD READ
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES AND FILIPINO CULTURE THROUGH THE STORIES OF 16 FILIPINA AUTHORS. For the majority of my life, books have provided an instant escape whenever I wanted to travel to faraway places. However, the lack of representation on library and bookstore shelves left me feeling disconnected to stories with predominantly white characters and Westernized lived experiences. With the recent onslaught of Asian American/Pacific Islander hate crimes in the USA and
EXCHANGE WITH EILEEN R. TABIOS ON DOVELION: A FAIRY TALE FOR OUR TIMES (AC Books, 2021)
Leny Mendoza Strobel: Your novel DOVELION: A Fairy Tale for Our Times (AC Books, 2021) (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781939901194/dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times.aspx ) is expansive—art, poetry, history, shadow material, colonial adventures, love, ideologies. How did you decide on what kind of character would best embody these vast themes? Eileen R. Tabios: In a way, I didn’t decide; the novel itself did—I approached the novel as I do a poem and so, as with the poem
POST-BOOK: LENY MENDOZA STROBEL
The Halo-Halo Review is pleased to interview authors in the aftermath of a book’s release. This issue’s featured writers include Leny Mendoza Strobel. What is your most recent book? Glimpses: A Poetic Memoir (Paloma Press, 2019). When was it released? 2019 What has been the response/what has surprised you most about the response? Many readers tell me that they read the book a few pages at a time because there's a lot to reflect and meditate on. I'm glad that readers can see t
Poetry at the End of the World / Revision Journal
Indigenous peoples do not believe
the world is ending. The world is changing, they say. Even before the scientists named climate change The shamans knew it When they saw the snow caps melting The earth quaking and tilting Animals and birds leaving The Ocean rising They say:
The Earth is Changing. For the sixth time. * * * The Inuit ask:
When all the ice melts, who will we be? In Vanuatu they say:
We have nowhere to go in this island. The Kogi says:
The Younger Brother is hu
Eileen R. Tabios, From Poet To Novelist
Book Review: DOVELION: A Fairy Tale for Our Times AC Books, 2021 Eileen R. Tabios’ new book “Dovelion” Eileen R. Tabios is a prolific writer, and writer across genres. She’s released over 60 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism from publishers in 11 countries; this year she also is scheduled to release French translations of her writings in France. But despite the abundance of her publications, it required 20 years for Eileen to accomplish her first long-form
LIBATIONS by LENY MENDOZA STROBEL
LIBATIONS By Leny Mendoza Strobel (October 2020) Size: 3” x 3” Meritage Press’ Minitage Editions is pleased to release LIBATIONS by Leny Mendoza Strobel. We present Leny’s thoughts on her miniature book, followed by images of its pages (click on images to enlarge): I call it "Libations" because that's the word that came to me. A libation is usually a liquid (coffee, water, liquor) offered to the Earth to give thanks to the Ancestors and deities on the other side of the veil f
