Magdaragat, p.1
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Magdaragat
Introduction, author biographies, and selection copyright © 2024 Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E. Gatchalian, and Patria Rivera
Individual selections copyright © 2024 the contributors
This edition copyright © 2024 Cormorant Books Inc.
The story by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, “Seven Steps to Reuniting with Your Teenage Daughter,” from Reuniting with Strangers: A Novel, by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, copyright 2023, Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio. Used by permission of Douglas & McIntyre.
The poems by Rani Rivera “All Violet,” “Night and Day,” “A Dereliction of Line” from the collection All Violet, published by Dagger Editions, an imprint of Caitlin Press, © 2017. Used by permission of the publisher.
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Title: Magdaragat : an anthology of Filipino-Canadian writing / edited by Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E. Gatchalian, & Patria Rivera.
Names: Alcuitas, Teodoro, editor. | Gatchalian, C.E., 1974- editor. | Rivera, Patria, editor.
Description: Second revised edition. | Essays, short stories, and poetry.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20230590411 | Canadiana (ebook) 2023059042X |
ISBN 9781770867727 (softcover) | ISBN 9781770867734 (EPUB)
Subjects: LCSH: Canadian literature—21st century. | CSH: Canadian literature (English)—21st Century | CSH: Canadian literature (English)—Asian Canadian authors
Classification: LCC PS8235.F55 M34 2024 | DDC C810.8/089921—dc23
United States Library of Congress Control Number: 2023951331
Cover and interior design: Marijke Friesen
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To the memory of Jim Wong-Chu (1949–2017);
And to all our Kapwa, living and dead, on Turtle Island,
the Archipelago, and Everywhere
Contents
Cover
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
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Introduction
The Homeland Hari Alluri Body Is Not a Thing to Escape
Isabel Carlin Wedding vows for a revolution
Deann Louise C. Nardo Where do you come from?
Rafael Palma Balikbayan Box
NAIA Terminal III
Steffi Tad-Y Cruel Strokes
Jellyn Ayudan Manila, 1993
Renato Gandia Tubigan, tumbang preso, taguan, and other preludes to a trauma
The Big Picture Isabel Carlin Welcome! Long life! Good health! Big smile!
Foreign aid
Lazarus in the age of war
Steffi Tad-Y Third Person Singular
Real Talk
Kaia M. Arrow Dreams of Pinoy Joy: Decolonial Rage and Disabled Resistance in the Diaspora
Teodoro Alcuitas Accidental Journalist
C.E. Gatchalian Fuck You: Selfishness, Big Girls, and the (Mis)Education of Hidilyn Diaz
Hannah Balba “As Opposed to Other Races”: Filipino-Canadians in Care Work and the Politics of Legibility
Alexa Batitis Living a Life of Hybrid Languages
Mila Bongco-Philipzig White Lies My Elders Told Me
Maribeth Manalaysay Tabanera Pagpasok Sa Sarili Ko / Coming Into Myself
Patria Rivera Landing and Arrival: A map of no return
Proximity Hari Alluri Oracle Card: Toward Wonder
Steffi Tad-Y Islands Along Mount Pleasant
Jellyn Ayudan Roots
Erica Dionora Cutscene
Angelo Santos boxes
Leon Aureus Just My Imagination
Kay Costales If I Talked to Death
Made in Canada Hari Alluri The Problem Is I Actually Love Mountains
Rachel Evangeline Chiong Desidido
Ariel Dela Cruz in little manila
Deann Louise C. Nardo Mimosa pudica
Carolyn Fe I clearly remember
Rafael Palma Lunch Box
OPM
Rani Rivera All Violet
Night and Day
A Dereliction of Line
Aileen Santiago Phantom Pains
Hari Alluri, Sol Diana & Carlo Sayo Offering for Eric
Primrose Madayag Knazan Where. Are. You. From.
ixJim Agapito Punk As F*ck
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio Seven Steps to Reuniting with Your Teenage Daughter
Christine Añonuevo roots & routes
Isabela Palanca Aureus Finding Home
Gemma Derpo Dalayoan First Few Years in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as Immigrants
Yves Lamson Reliquary
Remilyn “Felix” Policarpio Over the Grave and Back Again
Alma Salazar Retuta, md My journey as a doctor in Canada
Lorina Mapa First Winter
Monica Batac Sisters in Practice: A Readers Theatre Script
Kawika Guillermo Untouchable, Or, The Most Filipino Story You’ll Ever Read
José Romelo Lagman A Day in the Life of a Meatpacker
Grace Sanchez MacCall Wild West
Leah Ranada Foragers
Nathalie De Los Santos Over the Rainbow
Vincent Ternida Acacia
Contributor Biographies
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Table of Contents
Introduction /xi
The Homeland
Hari Alluri | Body Is Not a Thing to Escape 3
Isabel Carlin | Wedding vows for a revolution 5
Deann Louise C. Nardo | Where do you come from? 7
Rafael Palma |
Balikbayan Box 8
NAIA Terminal III 10
Steffi Tad-y | Cruel Strokes 11
Jellyn Ayudan | Manila, 1993 12
Renato Gandia | Tubigan, tumbang preso, taguan, and other preludes to a trauma 14
The Big Picture
Isabel Carlin |
Welcome! Long life! Good health! Big smile! 25
Foreign aid 28
Lazarus in the age of war 29
Steffi Tad-y |
Third Person Singular 32
Real Talk 33
Kaia M. Arrow | Dreams of Pinoy Joy: Decolonial Rage and Disabled Resistance in the Diaspora 34
Teodoro Alcuitas | Accidental Journalist 37
C.E. Gatchalian | Fuck You: Selfishness, Big Girls, and the (Mis)Education of Hidilyn Diaz 44
Hannah Balba | “As Opposed to Other Races”: Filipino-Canadians in Care Work and the Politics of Legibility 53
Alexa Batitis | Living a Life of Hybrid Languages 59
Mila Bongco-Philipzig | White Lies My Elders Told Me 63
Maribeth Manalaysay Tabanera | Pagpasok Sa Sarili Ko / Coming Into Myself 72
Patria Rivera | Landing and Arrival: A map of no return 86
