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Michelle Chen

Michelle Chen is a writer and historian based in New York City, and co-hosts the podcasts Belabored and Asia Pacific Forum.

By Michelle Chen:
Moustafa Bayoumi on Politics and Protest in the Trump Era
Making and Unmaking the Asian American Movement
Digging a Hole to China
Rogue State: Jeff Biggers on the Arizonification of America
Good Fortune, Long Life
Fifty Years of Pearl River Mart

Recent Articles

  • Songs Against the Dictator: ‘Walang Hanggang Paalam | Neverending Farewell’ and ‘Pagbabalikwas | To Break Free’
    By Rene, Cristy, and Marx Rivera, The Bicutan Political Detainees

    Two revolutionary songs popularized during martial law speak of the time’s anti-fascist sentiments

    Children of the Sunflower Revolution
    Essays
    By Vina Orden

    Creating a life in the shadow of the martial law years

    Clowns in a Time of Repression
    Essays
    By Joi Barrios

    The “New Society” had its own tricks. Billions disappeared from the nation’s coffers, clowns filled legislative positions.

    This Will Be the Day That I Die: September 21, 1972
    Essays
    By Ninotchka Rosca

    The United States would support the Marcos dictatorship disguised as a “constitutional coup d’etat”

    Mula Kay Tandang Iskong Basahan: Tagpi-tagping Alaala
    | From Old Man Isko the Ragseller: A Patchwork of Memories
    Fiction
    By Pedro Cruz Reyes, Jr., John Bengan

    Kay hirap maging mahirap, kung hindi ka pa manginig sa galit ay hindi ka pa iintindihin.
    | It’s so hard to be poor. If you don’t tremble with rage, they won’t try to understand you.

    Because of You, Queen Kong
    Essays
    By Luis H. Francia

    It was Imelda as much as Ferdinand who brought about the country’s ruination

    Three Poems by Soleil Davíd
    Poetry
    By Soleil Davíd

    How does it feel to watch / the seeds of your destruction / walk away from you?

    The Bionic Boy and the Ten Billion Dollar Man
    Essays
    By Sheila S. Coronel

    The Marcoses have always been the masters of myth-making

    Ka Vernon
    Essays
    By Alma Domingo

    We walked uphill where tall cogon grasses were already starting to don their silver shade.

    Mula sa Kanayunan Tungo sa Kalunsuran
    | From the Countryside to the Cities
    By Noel Pangilinan, Jhong C. Delacruz, RN

    Rebolusyonaryong panulaan noong panahon ng batas militar |
    Revolutionary poetry during the martial law years

    Three Poems by Wo Chan
    Poetry
    By Wo Chan

    “@nature, i avoid you,” “my life newly painted is well,” and “@nature, teach me things”

    But I Had Always Been a Bad Comrade
    Fiction
    By Anna Cabe

    I wondered if Pia was right, then, if I was seeking something too dangerous to be handled, a bomb that would kill me someday.

    Martial Law and Its Aftermaths: A Personal History
    Essays
    By Gato del Bosque

    I became a full-time community organizer in 1971. The Marcos government declared martial law in September 1972. A month later, the Marcos military came and arrested me.

    A Country in a Dictator’s Sleep
    Essays
    By Gina Apostol

    The minute I arrived at the University of the Philippines as a freshman, I joined the marches.

    Our Memories, Our Souls
    Essays
    By Eric Gamalinda

    Marcos knew that power rested not just on fear and terror, but also censorship and propaganda.

    Why Did Marcos Declare Martial Law?
    Essays
    By Noel Pangilinan

    A brief history lesson on the fourteen-year military-backed dictatorship in the Philippines

    Against Forgetting: Editors’ Note
    Essays
    By Noel Pangilinan, Soleil Davíd

    On the urgency of remembering the fourteen years of Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr.’s military-backed dictatorship in the Philippines

    my love, lost language
    Poetry
    By Mimi Yang

    Still, I am begging to be forgiven for the love / of my life

    Passing Through
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    Fifteen pieces on the places that have held us

    Translation
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    Pieces on the art and politics of translation

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