Pahlabras

the PAHLABRAS executive committee!

Thanks to everyone for helping get this organisation properly started!

in the Philippines casual misogyny, toxic masculinity & disregard for women is older than we realise; it's a colonial-era thing too as we can see in these excerpts from "Without Seeing the Dawn" by Stevan Javellana, orig. published 1947 & set in WWII Iloilo.

we see disgusting catcalling from male dockworkers vs women passing by, and even treating wives as borderline-disposable "pleasure objects" of men -- and mistresses doubly so because they're actually-"disposable" in the sense of not being married.

sure we could argue it was a "different era" back then but we doubt it should have been acceptable then, and it certainly shouldn't be any more acceptable now.

this Women's Month we keep fighting for all women's rights to respect, such that in future Philippine literature misogyny will just be a dim period stain we were better off leaving behind in history.

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Javellana, S. (1947/1976). Without seeing the dawn. Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House.

shoutout to Exploding Galaxies for helping recover these "lost" & obscure Philippine literature classics!

we appreciate & support them since we have similar goals ourselves.

These elegant, boxy, inspired works come from a small independent press known as Exploding Galaxies. And what they specialize in is even more special — republishing the lost works of Philippine literature.

READ: https://www.tinigngplaridel.net/recovering-lost-literature

Written by Robb Nigel Moya
Graphics by Rafael Carasig

check this out a "Dead Stars" lecture!

The 23rd Paz Marquez Benitez Memorial Lecture: Paz Marquez Benitez and the Enduring Light of "Dead Stars" The Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (ALiWW), in partnership with the School of Humanities, Department of Fine Arts, and Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, cordially invites you to the 23rd Paz Marquez Benitez Memorial Lecture titled "Paz Marquez Benitez and the Enduring Light of Dead Star...

might want to check this out!
what does "Dead Stars" mean 100 years on?