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Massachusetts

Visited three or four places in Massachusetts, namely: Boston/Cambridge, Salem, and Amherst. I’m not really counting Cambridge at this point because all I did there was sleep — Ate Isi and her husband had just moved there from Madison, because Mark got a position to teach History and Literature in Harvard, and they kindly took […]

Activism and Zine Publishing

These past weeks, I have been fortunate to attend several talks on independent publishing organized by Hauser & Wirth Publishers. This is right up my alley, being an independent publisher myself AND working in a library which is one of the few institutional places that independent publications can find themselves in. Libraries are a natural […]

Utah

Spent the past week in Utah with fellow grantees of the Asian Cultural Council, each of them from China (YuanYuan), Japan (Yusuke), and Korea (MinKyung). I flew ahead of the others on an evening trip to Salt Lake City, and slept in an AirBnB near the airport before having to check out at 11 AM […]

Chicago (and Madison)

On my twelfth week being based at DC, I heeded an invitation by a dear friend to share about what we do in Gantala Press with the students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, through its Center for Southeast Asian Studies. The talk went well, and many people expressed support of our work and interest in […]

DC Diary – Week 13 at the LoC

This is my last week as an intern at the Library of Congress’ Interpretive Programs Office! A big shout-out and all the love in the world to my supervisor, Ms Carroll Johnson-Welsh, who had asked me to keep this diary. She has been nothing but kind, patient, and generous; taking the trouble to give me […]

DC Diary – Week 11 at the LoC

July 9, 2018, Monday Read Mina Roces’ “Is the suffragist an American colonial construct?” then started printing better copies of some of the photos in the Faces of Suffrage folder, which was put together by a previous intern. It’s a collection of portraits of suffragists from the various United States. It was interesting to look […]

DC Diary – Week 10 at the LoC

July 2, 2018, Monday Walked from the apartment to the National Museum of the American Indian, whose brown building I really love. I appreciate how the museum worked closely with “community curators” or American Indians themselves in presenting Native American culture. I didn’t realize that there are many native universes (tribes); and that the Inuit […]

DC Diary – Week 9 at the LoC

June 25, 2018, Monday Spoke at the Philippine Embassy today for their lunchtime lectures, a program that the Trade and Economics Officer developed last year; mine is the first for 2018 and the first on art and culture. Previous topics included the Constitution and Trade/Economic issues. I shared some of the exhibitions we’ve done at […]

DC Diary – Week 8 at the LoC

June 18, 2018, Monday Met with the Trade and Economic Officer of the Philippine Embassy, who invited me to come speak to the embassy staff about my work in the Philippines. I proposed talking about Baguio City (the American colonial hill station especially in the early 20th century) and its connection to the US, and […]

DC Diary – Week 7 at the LoC

June 11, 2018, Monday The highlight of my day was going to the H Street Theater (the Atlas) with Carroll to watch The Vagrant Trilogy by Mona Mansour, presented by the Mosaic Theater Company of DC. It’s a three-hour play with two breaks (and free snacks and drinks), about a Palestinian literary scholar caught in […]