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Marikit 🇵🇭💜
@mataraykween.bsky.social
Ph.D. Comparative Literature. Diasporic literature, Filipino literature in English, postmodernism, postcolonialism, gender studies 🌈 Ally. Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines. Married with kids ❤️

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Just sharing slides from my PhD dissertation proposal, “Tropical Fantasy-Productions of Filipino Diasporic Novel in the USA from 2010 to 2024” (revised it). Hi to all comparative literature, borderland, transnational, immigrant and migrant scholars out there! Just finished writing the thing! Whew!
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Whether you're with family or not, wherever you are, I hope you have a nice day today.
Treat yourself. You deserve it.
#Family #StarWars
December 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Sharing this starter pack so we can keep in touch with each other, Pinoy friends! But also, if you are Pinoy or Pinoy-hyphenated, let us know how your Christmases are. Maligayang pasko po, at manigong bagong taon!

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December 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I want to drive a dump truck of cow manure to the Microsoft headquarters and drop it off in the lobby as a thank you.

They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it, but maybe they can figure out how to get rid of it.
Is there a way to get this mind-numbing Co-Pilot shit off Microsoft Word?
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Love Pres Claudia
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Imagine if we went after guns with the same energy that they use to deport law abiding immigrants.
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
About the first Filipino short story in English, Filipino anti-colonialism, and Filipino independence and democracy.

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100 Years of "Dead Stars"
The first Filipino short story in English
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December 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Honestly, quite scary for America that you are allowing this person to lead you.
He is not well.

If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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“I saw everything,” said Frog. “You did very well by yourself.”

“I did not,” said Toad. “But there is one thing that I can do all by myself.”

“What is that?” asked Frog.

“I can go home,” said Toad. “Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I’m back! Got locked out for a bit, and was busy writing two textbooks (whew). Here’s something I wrote yesterday, in the wake of so many things:

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Seeking the Human
There has always been the anti-human.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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I recently visited an ICE detention center with @ravenreveals.bsky.social just outside of Chicago. Kidnapping people off the streets isn’t keeping us any more safe.

Let’s close this facility and all the other ones like it down.
September 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction.

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September 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
September 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Happy Skynet Becomes Self-Aware Day!
August 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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JFC
August 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
August 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Comparisons in my Comparative Literature classes, exploring Philippine Literature in English 🇵🇭

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Comparative Literature: Beyond the Anthologized
A few notes from my Comparative Literature classes
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August 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop

Being the reason someone feels heard, seen, valued, and loved makes more of a difference than we often realise.

🧡

#kindness #positivity #love

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August 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Trump threatens to deploy the regular military into D.C. — an illegal move under the Posse Comitatus Act — and says Chicago & New York are next. We are watching a dictator rise in real time. #BlueCrew #Resist #DemocracyMatters #DefendDemocracy #ProtectDemocracy
August 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
2/2 for ICE has fueled an anger against the Other that has always been simmering under the lid of American politics. There is a real deficit in empathy and compassion that I cannot comprehend. How do we teach kindness to people who think that they are *already* kind?
I don’t know how the USA normalized crazy in less than two years. The way the whole system just crumbled is amazing for outsiders to see, but ultimately makes sense when you have Americans come to visit (as I did, fairly recently). The entitlement, the rage, and the rationalization of the need 1/2
August 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I don’t know how the USA normalized crazy in less than two years. The way the whole system just crumbled is amazing for outsiders to see, but ultimately makes sense when you have Americans come to visit (as I did, fairly recently). The entitlement, the rage, and the rationalization of the need 1/2
August 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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FYI: the fundraising ALL goes to the redistricting effort - not to a Newsom POTUS run. I checked.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Some people may not like how @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is talking. You may not find his posts funny. It is absolutely working. His fundraising #’s just came out. $6.2 million THIS WEEK. 200,000 donors… Dems feel like ‘finally someone is fighting for us’.”
August 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM