“Before the written word, before language as we know it, oral storytelling was the oldest form of human communication.”

“While breaking from any empire is something to cheer, we must still remain committed to our goal of unity and global cooperation.”

“Forgetting is positioned as a forgivable human lapse; it happens often and we move on without berating ourselves or others much if the consequences aren’t too dire. Misremembering is different.”

“Change can be dismissed or feared as disruption, as monstrous, as unwanted. But maybe it can also present us with opportunity.”

“When we fought back for our independence, English remained the language of ambition and Tagalog became the language of home.”

“How should artists navigate the inherent voyeurism of our age, when everything is photographed, recorded, and shared online?”

“When Black and Indigenous folks refuse, what do we create space for? How are our refusals ancestral and descendant-minded?”

“So during that fall of 2022, Bretty and I put our heads together and came up with an actionable road map forward that felt daunting and daring — but also, incredibly, possible.”

“Everything we have done and continue to do is in the service of our community: the people who dare to show up and create and share and commiserate even when — and especially when — it is difficult to do so.”

“How do we honor the powerful modalities of care that have always, and continue to, exist outside the bounds of dominant culture and systems?”

“I’ve come to understand that my rage is inseparable from how deeply I love.”

“Animals have always haunted human art, but that haunting takes on a different quality when we understand ourselves to be the executioners.”

“Revolt is not just protest. Not just uprising. It’s what happens between the moments, the movement that happens before and after.”

“What hunger, what pain did these monsters embody, and why were they deemed demonic?”

“The current of cis binary gender was so overwhelmingly fast that I could never position myself well enough within it to float.”