Coconut Mother: Essays on Filipino Identity

Welcome!

This is a collection of personal musings on the Filipino cultural identity, in all of its beauty and contradiction. Specifically, this e-book contains five essays:

• Coconut Mother
• The Filipino as onion and adobo
• Jollibee, Trese, and the burden of Filipino'representation'
• By the leaves instead of numbers
• Snacks from my childhood: going, going, gone

Through these essays, I try to articulate my viewpoint on Philippine culture: that one needs to make space for duality in order to fully appreciate it. Hopefully this creates a space for more nuanced conversation regarding our national identity.

Happy reading!