Introduction /xi
The Homeland
Hari Alluri | Body Is Not a Thing to Escape 3
Isabel Carlin | Wedding vows for a revolution 5
Deann Louise C. Nardo | Where do you come from? 7
Rafael Palma |
Balikbayan Box 8
NAIA Terminal III 10
Steffi Tad-y | Cruel Strokes 11
Jellyn Ayudan | Manila, 1993 12
Renato Gandia | Tubigan, tumbang preso, taguan, and other preludes to a trauma 14
The Big Picture
Isabel Carlin |
Welcome! Long life! Good health! Big smile! 25
Foreign aid 28
Lazarus in the age of war 29
Steffi Tad-y |
Third Person Singular 32
Real Talk 33
Kaia M. Arrow | Dreams of Pinoy Joy: Decolonial Rage and Disabled Resistance in the Diaspora 34
Teodoro Alcuitas | Accidental Journalist 37
C.E. Gatchalian | Fuck You: Selfishness, Big Girls, and the (Mis)Education of Hidilyn Diaz 44
Hannah Balba | “As Opposed to Other Races”: Filipino-Canadians in Care Work and the Politics of Legibility 53
Alexa Batitis | Living a Life of Hybrid Languages 59
Mila Bongco-Philipzig | White Lies My Elders Told Me 63
Maribeth Manalaysay Tabanera | Pagpasok Sa Sarili Ko / Coming Into Myself 72
Patria Rivera | Landing and Arrival: A map of no return 86
Proximity
Hari Alluri | Oracle Card: Toward Wonder 99
Steffi Tad-y | Islands Along Mount Pleasant 106
Jellyn Ayudan | Roots 108
Erica Dionora | Cutscene 111
Angelo Santos | boxes 115
Leon Aureus | Just My Imagination 121
Kay Costales | If I Talked to Death 131
Made in Canada
Hari Alluri | The Problem Is I Actually Love Mountains 147
Rachel Evangeline Chiong | Desidido 150
Ariel Dela Cruz | in little manila 152
Deann Louise C. Nardo | Mimosa pudica 154
Carolyn Fe | I clearly remember 159
Rafael Palma |
Lunch Box 162
OPM 165
Rani Rivera |
All Violet 167
Night and Day 168
A Dereliction of Line 170
Aileen Santiago | Phantom Pains 172
Hari Alluri, Sol Diana & Carlo Sayo | Offering for Eric 174
Primrose Madayag Knazan | Where. Are. You. From. 179
Jim Agapito | Punk As F*ck 186
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio | Seven Steps to Reuniting with Your Teenage Daughter 203
Christine Añonuevo | roots & routes 218
Isabela Palanca Aureus | Finding Home 222
Gemma Derpo Dalayoan | First Few Years in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as Immigrants 236
Yves Lamson | Reliquary 245
Remilyn “Felix” Policarpio | Over the Grave and Back Again 256
Alma Salazar Retuta, md | My journey as a doctor in Canada 271
Lorina Mapa | First Winter 275
Monica Batac | Sisters in Practice: A Readers Theatre Script 278
Kawika Guillermo | Untouchable, Or, The Most Filipino Story You’ll Ever Read 283
José Romelo Lagman | A Day in the Life of a Meatpacker 293
Grace Sanchez MacCall | Wild West 311
Leah Ranada | Foragers 315
Nathalie De Los Santos | Over the Rainbow 323
Vincent Ternida | Acacia 341
Contributor Biographies 351
Acknowledgements 363