love in repetition / conversation in echoes
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Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita / mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda. Sa Aking Mga Kabata, 1868 The famous quote, often attributed to Jose Rizal, recently washed back up on the shore of my thoughts like a floundering aquatic creature. It’s a memorable line, and frankly not a good one – though, as a Read more
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This post is the second of a two-part series “Buggy ethics,” wherein I explore ethics, morality, and the insect-human eco-cultural relationship. This second part features an essay I worked on in July 2023 for an environmental philosophy elective, lightly edited for style. In light of recent advancements in insect legal rights, I hope this essay Read more
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For the first time in the world, in Provincia de Satipo, Perú, a group of insects have been declared subjects of legal rights by a local government. In October 2025, Amazonian stingless bees within the Avireri-Vraem Biosphere Reserve were granted explicit legal rights to exist, to maintain healthy populations in their natural habitats, to not Read more
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Somewhere along the road, I seem to have found comfort in being a foreigner. Moving to a new country with a different language and faces, with different air and water and stars has alleviated most of the mysterious heaviness that I felt since I was eleven (maybe earlier). My own tongue felt like my enemy Read more
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