I always read this to remind myself of the problems we are facing, but sometimes choose to ignore. Constants in life are very rare. But this is a constant that I am very thankful for. (from june 04, 2008)
" The new woman, the new Filipina, is first and foremost a militant...
And since in the cities, participation in protest marches means not only marching but also dodging police truncheons, evading precinct produced molotovs...expertise is hitting the ground whenever and whatever pig force starts firing...the new Filipina is one who has learned...to carry herself in these situations with sufficient ease and aplomb to convince the male comrades that they need not take care of her, please.
The new Filipina is one who can stay whole days and nights with striking workers, learning from them the social realities which her bourgeois education has kept from her...More important this means she has convinced her parents of the seriousness of her commitment to the workers and peasants cause...a commitment which requires all sorts of behavior previously way beyond the bounds of respectable womanhood...She is a woman who has discovered the exalting realm of responsibility, a woman fully engaged in the making of history...
No longer is she a woman-for-marriage, but more and more a woman-for-action."
-Maria Lorena Barros
Thank you, K. Socco, for teaching me, speaking to me, and listening to me. Always.
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