Thursday, April 30, 2009

no more politricking.

i'm tired of all this politricking and shit-campaigning. i just want to organize. yea, i understand there are politics behind the organizing and folks need to fall in a particular line to organize - but what about when you just wanna organize from the heart line?

for about a year, i kept silent about the issue. like a victim, i accepted it and wanted to protect them, but i wonder how does one determine which woman or person is worthy of being "saved?" how does that prevent us from perpetuating a hierarchal system and conquering and dividing our own people? it seems to me that we get lost in these definitions and our own ideological warfare while perpetuating similar imperial tactics. there's seems to be a void to addressing the politics of our identity as they are shaped, controlled, and impacted by the empire. no organization is capable of addressing the complications of our intersectional lives and struggles, rather they fragmentalized and pinned against each other. it's a shame quite honestly.

i wonder how we can struggle together against the system that we are all trying to dismantle in one aspect or the other. then again, if there was no struggle what would people fight for?

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What's the Master's Thesis?

Beneath Our Maria Claras reveal the lives of Filipinas as they attempt to undress layers of pre-colonial identities sewn by patterns of colonialism, imperialism, and patriarchy. For years, I have struggled to remove this garment and try to do what some colonized peoples have done, de-colonize myself and understand the social and historical conditions impacting my live. This blog/research follow my lines of thoughts and understanding while trying to understand: How do second generation Filipina American college students reclaim power that was denied to them culturally through gender?