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Pia Cortez is a poet and a writer from Pampanga, Philippines, currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more →

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This week’s #booklook is shot at a Filipino grocery store because I’m in all of my feels after finishing @gracetalusanwriter’s memoir THE BODY PAPERS ♥ Thank you @restlessbooks for uplifting stories like Grace’s (& for my copy)! I’ll be sharing more about this book in the coming days leading up to her book talk in SF (& at @baybookfest!) but in the meantime, get this book. Read it, share it, learn from it, cry with it. Maraming salamat, Grace ♥ link in bio for event
Happy #WorldBookDay ✨ here to let y’all know that the next two weekends are holidays for bookish folks like me 😎 4/27 is @indiebookstoreday, a celebration of independent bookstores around the country (shout out to my fave @greenapplebooks) so come out & show your love 💖 5/4-5/5 is when the @baybookfest is happening, the super litty festival featuring 200+ events with amazing POC writers like @ro.kwon @tayari @carmenmmachado @gracetalusanwriter @morganapple0 & more🔥 Calling all my bookish baes! Where y’all at?!
My #booklook this week features @gapostol’s INSURRECTO, a novel that reads like a film about two women’s intersecting journeys of history, family & self with so much flair, fashun & scenes so vivid you could almost smell the scenes yrself. Got the chance to see + hear Gina with @_elainecastillo at @sfmoma a few weeks ago, & I’m so grateful for these dope af Pinay authors changing the literary game 🔥 Shout out to @pjpolicarpio @weareyourpals @jaenarae for making this happen ✨
tldr: "hi my name is not important / i’m not from here / i’m imported" —@jessiereyez / @6lack april 2004, me: fuck everything & why do we have to leave the philippines? i hate this fog, this weather, the empty & quiet streets, these dollar bills, no fried chicken & rice at mcdonald’s, this uprootedness & displacement & migration & loss & grief. it’s been fifteen years since that time. i’m no longer that angry, stubborn, baby gay pinay who hates her parents (shout out to my therapist), though i still get angry (righteously). growing up in the philippines feels like lifetimes ago but i’ve finally made peace with that separation. i’ve learned how to love from afar. used to block out april & didn’t wanna be reminded. this is prolly the first april where i’m as present as i want to be to the beautiful chaos & amazing hot messery around me, while i’m foreva trying to figure shit out. while trying to be qt, catching up on all the books, all the looks. doin new things, always experimenting. and it feels good. shout out to all im/migrants trying to get through each day. we gon be alright 😌
Me rn but also realizing I need a support group after five weeks 🐉⚔️🐘
A feast of Filipino cookbooks available at the super litty @arkipelagobooks just in time for @undiscoveredsf’s #KulinaryConfidential 🔥🇵🇭💯
plz sponsor me @filausa 🙏🏾🤣💃🏽
Happy book pub day to @erinleecarr’s "All That You Leave Behind," a memoir of a grieving daughter after the death of one of our time’s best journalists. Thank you to @randomhouse for my copy, can’t wait to get to know the late, great David Carr (of @nytimes) and Erin in one of 2019’s best nonfiction reads (@oprahmagazine) 🌸
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