Liwanag Volume 3
Editors: Jason Bayani, Rachel Lastimosa, Oscar Penaranda, Dara Del Rosario, Joe Ramos, Edwin Lozada, Arina Alejo, Steve Belale
SOMA Pilipinas: 2021
Paperback: New
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Liwanag 3 features a wide range of genres in Pilipinx poetry, fiction, playwriting, comics and graphic novels; Visual arts include paintings, illustrations and photography.
Following the re-issue of the seminal 1975 Filipino American arts anthology, Liwanag, SOMA Pilipinas is proud to announce the newest entry into this series, Liwanag 3!
As the original Liwanag, and the 1993 issue, Liwanag 2, amplified the voices of local, Bay Area Pilipinx American artists of those time periods, we’re bringing Liwanag back to showcase and reflect upon the evolution of the Pilipinx identity of today. Liwanag 3 speaks to the multiplicity of the Pilipinx American experience, in this moment in time.
With a global pandemic stirring anti-Asian sentiments and disproportionately impacting frontline Pilipinx healthcare and hospitality workers, a worldwide uprising against historical and institutional anti-blackness, and punitive actions taken against our kababayan exercising civil liberties, we are reminded that art is essential to our survival and we must remain empowered to hold agency over our narratives.
While we are physically distant from one another in the interest of public health and safety, Pilipinx American artists continue to create and share their practices as a means to deepen human connection through digital landscapes. (2021)