Not everyone grows up with fluent Tagalog or Cebuano. But culture has a way of surviving through rhythm, expectation, taste, and gesture. Sometimes heritage is the thing you can name. Sometimes it is the thing that names you first.
“Our parents did not always give us vocabulary. They gave us instincts.”
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Maya Javier
Maya writes features about identity, culture, and the visual language of diaspora life.
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