Published inLiving HyphenCritical Connections Over Critical MassLuxuriating in the slow and meaningful process of relationship building.Oct 30, 2023Oct 30, 2023
Published inLiving HyphenFrom Turtle Island to Palestine, None of Us Are Free Until We Are All Free.I have spent the last couple of weeks on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh…Oct 18, 2023Oct 18, 2023
Taking Pride in Being the Only Person of Colour in the RoomMy migration story begins at the young age of four. Like many new immigrants to Canada, my family and I moved to an apartment in…Apr 27, 2023Apr 27, 2023
Published inLiving HyphenStop Glorifying Resiliency: Learning from Disrupted LearnersWe have created a world that has come to accept resilience from the world’s most vulnerable populations and used that as a reason to fail.Dec 1, 2022Dec 1, 2022
Published inLiving Hyphen4 Years Later: Living Hyphen on Deepening Partnership and Growing Our CommunityWe are a cultural force, a multimedia platform, and a flourishing community made up of thousands of people fromNov 4, 2022Nov 4, 2022
Pilipino with an AsteriskI wrote this piece for my performance at Kultura’s Paniniwala: Acts of Faith at the Art Gallery of Ontario on October 5, 2022. In response…Oct 6, 2022Oct 6, 2022
Published inLiving HyphenDecolonizing Our Tongues: Language As A Transformative ToolHow Living Hyphen Strives to Move Beyond the Limitations of the English LanguageSep 23, 2022Sep 23, 2022
Published inLiving HyphenNurturing Our Writerly Selves: Letting Go of Perfection and Embracing the Messy ProcessA Look at Living Hyphen’s Approach to Writing WorkshopsSep 19, 2022Sep 19, 2022
Published inLiving HyphenRedefining What It Means to Be “Canadian”This Canada Day, I want to take a moment to reflect on this question of what it means to be Canadian much more deeply.Jul 1, 2022Jul 1, 2022
Published inI Was Wrong(ed)!Distancing Myself from Newcomer Filipino ClassmatesWhen I lived in the Philippines for the first four years of my life, my parents insisted that we speak English at home. They wanted me to…Apr 19, 2022Apr 19, 2022