Memory and Resistance: The Desaparecidos Monument in Oton, Iloilo

I wrote this commentary for the Philippine Online Chronicles. Seemingly out of nowhere, motorists travelling along the Iloilo-Antique National Highway pass by …

Women’s Resistance and the Antigonean Power of Mourning in Ariel Dorfman’s Widows

In acts of defiance evocative of Antigone in Sophocles’ classic tragedy, the women protagonists of the Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman’s …