Contents

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