Friends, do you have a public market where you live? What’s it like?

ahem!

Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.

Back on substack. Sort of.

I hope the smashing victory of Zohran is the final proof of how popular leftism is when it stops speaking in preachy shibboleths He’s such a role model for what a healthy left should be

So I think I write one short poem that rings true for me every 5 years. If I were to compile these poems now, I’d have less than 10! Hardly a collection, but I love it when a slow poem finally says yes, it’s finished.

Donna Seaman recommends seven books you need to read (about reading).

The United States, that "beacon of democracy", has intervened in 128 elections since 1946 to shape political outcomes in their own interests.

Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.

What species of crow lives in Baguio? I need to know. There are so many and yet the Philippine Jungle Crow is unreported in Benguet on the eBird checklist.

Lost friends over Marcos, then Duterte, now Gaza. Nothing compared to the lives lost.

One of the most beautiful Filipino words I know is the one I learned from Celine Murillo-- the word "Saribuhay" (Biodiversity). You could just sense the depth of meaning of this word.

Stumbled on this and now want to learn more about—and from, Naomi Rincon Gallardo.

Forgot to share market moments lately. So here are snapshots from my past two palengke days. #baguioPUBLICmarket #keepitpublic

This one has alt text, sorry for the mistake on my part!

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals. Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD

But… what if I loved and used em-dashes galore long before AI crashed the party? 😢

Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926, Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt

Read this in Taglish. 🇵🇭

LF: feminist ob-gyne who understands and undermines the ways in which patriarchal medical systems harm women’s bodies and minds. Is that too much to ask?!

I’ll take Mother’s Day-Off over ‘happy mothers’ day” thank yew.

—siphiwe! excerpt here from her short story “what becomes of the broken-hearted” from harvest moon soft nudge to re-read what we worked on <3 CC @lotusbearer.bsky.social @jpacarino.bsky.social

Written a year ago and I’m still screaming with the cicadas.

At 50, I’ve finally outgrown not wanting to be identified as feminist! Sure took me a while. Go ahead, call me angry and see if I care. 😘

When I meant to type “I will continue to insist.” But instead I typed “I will continue to exist.”

Releaf

Market moments. Price of tomatoes is down, price of onions is up. #baguioPUBLICmarket #keepitpublic #baguio

Random morning thoughts on precarious and oppressive material conditions: is paluwagan a form of mutual aid? Discuss. #pinaymoves

Birdsong is part of spring’s soundtrack as migratory birds return to their breeding grounds. Earlier this year, we spoke with a researcher who helped analyze 140,000 bird sounds to better understand what influences their calls and songs.

Imagine a more expansive, shared meaning of livability… How much richer might our daily lives be—how much kinder our futures, if we lived as though our #neighborspecies mattered? #birds

Last piece in a mini series about the incredible women I met in India, all of them lovers of trees, books, the wild.

Full story: www.rappler.com/environment/...

The amount of time I spend scrolling through IG and sending stupid reels and memes to people is directly proportional to the stress I’m feeling. If you’re a recipient, send help.

Having to pay for clean drinking water is not normal. It’s normalized.

Now on WWB: three powerful poems from Adivasi poet Vajesinh Pargi. Read the series “Hunger is No Forest Fire,” translated from Gujarati by Pratishtha Pandya, at the link: buff.ly/JtrVFf9

Now we see the United States of America for what it really is: a hotbed for fascists. And I'm talking about the state, not the land. In the Philippines, we've clung to the myth of benevolent assimilation for far too long. It's time to pulverize that old story.

In the next level of shamelessness, I will be shameless about being a shameless woman. Sometimes I still feel apologetic about taking up space, which is so not the point of giving zero fucks.

Found this gorgeous specimen of bracket fungus (Name = Yawn😴~). In Japanese it's called "Saru no Koshikake" or "Monkey's Seat" or "Monkey's Stool" (Name = Adorable😄!) You just gotta wonder if someone long, long, long ago, came across a monkey sitting on one and went voilà💡!

So much horrific news. But also yesterday, the oaks were leafing out and the grass was maximum green. The Bay Area dresses up in drag as Ireland this time every year, and happy St. Patrick's to all you anticolonialists and arborists.

No comment needed. #Gaza

Agree.

Calling river-lovers everywhere: today the River Rescue Kit is released by River Action. It's a properly brilliant resource: * training on water testing * legal rights * campaigning advice * fundraising guides * much more Get stuck in; turn passion into action. Pass it on! kit.riveractionuk.com

Next part of my mini series on the brilliant women I encountered in India.

If you go through the statement released by BDS you’ll notice that it’s incoherent. They clearly had internal disagreements but despite this they went ahead with it anyway. I urge them to reconsider to limit the damage. www.972mag.com/no-other-lan...

Part 2 of an ongoing mini-series in which I respond to being warned about misogyny by cis men 🙄. I started out indignant and annoyed but now I just want to celebrate women (and a brother from another mother) who counter the erasures reproduced by such well-meaning but vague words of caution.

God but I’m angry today.

Sorry to break it to you, Mr. Bezos, but your country “got here” by being a *fuckingly typical* colonizer, slaver, and mass murderer.

I am waiting for a brilliant and biting satirical response to Trump’s bizarre Gaza video, which I won’t repost. Is anyone working on it yet? #fromtherivertothesea #freepalestine #welcometoendofempire