a space for the in-between
Essays on healing, cultural inheritance, and the complicated tenderness of one's becoming amidst chaos.
"a regular #poc #antiimperialist gyal seeking love & liberation in a time of neoliberalism. spoiler alert: it's awful."
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A regular poc, anti-imperialist gyal seeking love and liberation in a time of neoliberalism.
This space is for the adult children of immigrants, the ones who code-switched before they knew the word for it. We felt the weight of things that were never spoken aloud.
You've found a place for grief we never named. The table we kept setting. What it means to love people who don't have the words.
"seeking love & liberation in a time of neoliberalism."
Based in Hawaiʻi. Born in Jersey. Bicolana braised in P'que. Writing through the obfuscation of intergenerational everything.
inheritance
On the untranslatable weight of "mahal kita" and what gets lost when love skips a language.
read →healing
When the DSM doesn't have a code for "my lola sacrificed everything and I feel guilty for wanting more."
read →belonging
A meditation on hospitality as armor, and why our parents fed everyone else before themselves.
read →Occasional essays and reflections — sent when there's something worth saying. No cadence. No hustle. Just words.
Fragments, feelings, and the stuff that doesn't fit in an essay. Come find the messier version.
@significantlyothered →"a regular gyal seeking love & liberation in a time of neoliberalism."
— from the bio, and also, from the heart