Latest contemplations
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One small day, I found it (a junk journal gallery)
“One small day, I found it” was created from loose items of a 2025 wedding invite from a dear friend: a wax seal, ribbon, and dried baby’s-breath. Later, I added a plastic butterfly charm from broken earring. This poem was… Continue reading
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Growing up with a messy sense of place
Alternate title: “Seventh Senseless: The UnManila Girl Diaries.“ The funny thing about growing up in Quezon City, Metro Manila is this curious, implacable sensation that no one is from here — or so it seemed to me. So many people… Continue reading
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Ang kwentong malansa ni Aling Isda
Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita / mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda. Sa Aking Mga Kabata, 1868 The famous quote, often attributed to Jose Rizal, recently washed back up on the shore of my thoughts like a floundering aquatic… Continue reading
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Buggy ethics, part 2: Arthropod agency
This post is the second of a two-part series “Buggy ethics,” wherein I explore ethics, morality, and the insect-human eco-cultural relationship. This second part features an essay I worked on in July 2023 for an environmental philosophy elective, lightly edited… Continue reading
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Buggy ethics, part 1: The first win for insect rights?
For the first time in the world, in Provincia de Satipo, Perú, a group of insects have been declared subjects of legal rights by a local government. In October 2025, Amazonian stingless bees within the Avireri-Vraem Biosphere Reserve were granted… Continue reading
