After my poetry teacher suggested that I read Lauren Elkin’s No. 91/92: A Diary of A Year on the Bus, I decided to make my own. I will post mainly on Instagram but if I have more thoughts, I will post on Twitter and this blog. All links connected to this project will be added on Linktree.
Continue reading “About Manila Bus Diary (After Lauren Elkin)”Reflections about 2023:
So recently I took Chingbee’s (Conchitina Cruz) poetry class. After discussing certain poets, Chingbee would ask the class for prompts. Sometimes she would add or expand on the suggestions of the class. Here are those prompts:
Inspired by Sei Shonagon, Anne Boyer, and the favorite poems of classmates
She wanted to understand it
so she immersed in it
again and again and again.
Every immersion left her broken
but there was no other way to learn.
(April 6, 2022)
I was in an all-girls school from grade three to high school. Since all of us were girls, walking around with a menstrual stain on your skirt was not a big deal. The stain wasn’t even that red because our skirts were green so the blood stain would usually be brown or dark yellow.
Continue reading “How We Dealt with Menstrual Tagos in an All-Girls School”
Age of the Diary 
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