‘My Tongue Swallowing the Taste of Home Soil’: On Filipino Food, Family, and Identity By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “Far from our barrios, mountains, and islands, we cook, so that we may practice swallowing our undesirable truths, acidic and blood-heavy.”
Frenzied Woman By Longreads Feature Cinelle Barnes considers how the chaos and discipline of dance kept the disparate parts of her being stitched together.
Facebook Isn’t the Same as “The Internet” Except When It Is By Michelle Weber Highlight What happens when a tool created by a bunch of developers in California becomes the main news source of a country 7,000 miles away? Nothing good.
‘Nobody Is Safe’: A Dispatch from Manila By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At The New York Review of Books, James Fenton reports from the night shift in Manila, giving us a glimpse into the war on drugs in the Philippines, from “buy-bust” undercover operations to EJKs (extrajudicial killings).
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