gender identity

The world can blame its colonizing empires for anti-homosexuality laws throughout colonies, particularly in the 19th century when the British Empire was at its peak. As of 2018, more than half of the 71 countries that criminalized homosexuality were former British colonies or protectorates. 

Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints

The decolonization of how gender and sex have been constructed by Western philosophy and forced upon cultures around the world is essential to the safety of our trans relatives. 

36 years & counting

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ~ Milan Kundera

A central theme for 93 year old Milan Kundera is The Power of Forgetting, or historical amnesia - could not be more relevant given our current state of affairs. In our country and around the world too many valuable lessons are lost to us.

Kundera’s great theme emerged from his experience of the annexation of his former homeland Czechoslovakia by the Soviets in 1948. The process of deliberate historical erasure imposed by the communist regime on the Czechs.

As Kundera said: The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

hot cross buns

I struggle with great difficulty to not lash out in rabid frustration over the shameless lies of Marcos propaganda. Today's post is about Imee Marcos - big sister and ate' to Bongbong Marcos. 

Marcos fake buns - Mary Rose Sagarino/ CDN Digital

Specifically her blatant branding of Nutribuns distributed at a recent Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) event in the town of Consolacion, Cebu. 

In typical foot in mouth faux pas, Imee has opened old Martial Law wounds once more with her callous retelling of an old Marcos fiction. 

liar! liar! pants on fire!