My mom in the bottom left and her siblings, mom, and grandma Talambuhay Tuesdays: Week 2 Today marks the 40th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution that toppled the Marcos Sr. dictatorship. Life under Marcos Sr. was a period marred by intense state repression, the disappearance, illegal arrest, detention, torture and extrajudicial killing of thousands of Filipinos; An exponential increase of the country’s foreign debt and theft of billions of pesos from the treasury

Far left is my Grandma Lourdes, the middle two are her sisters, and on the right are my mom and 5 month old me First blog post of 2026!!! I recently changed the name of my newsletter and blog to "Anong Chika?" Tagalog slang for "What's the news? or What's the hot goss??" And this first blog post will be part of a (semi) weekly series called Talambuhay Tuesdays. (I say semi, because we'll see if I can stick to a weekly cadence lol) Talambuhay is Tagalog for "biography" and has