Padma L. Perez
@lotusbearer.bsky.social
Writer, hooker (I crochet), non-practicing anthropologist, practicing imperfectionist. Grand Mother. I like to be the devil in my own damn details. ♊️
Friends, do you have a public market where you live? What’s it like?
Our Public Market
One of my most beloved places in my hometown
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November 2, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Friends, do you have a public market where you live? What’s it like?
ahem!
What's in a name?
I'm no longer calling these writings gentle.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
ahem!
Back on substack. Sort of.
Silent and Slow
A mundane, rambling, probably pointless letter. (Parenthetical notes are notes to myself.)
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July 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Back on substack. Sort of.
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I hope the smashing victory of Zohran is the final proof of how popular leftism is when it stops speaking in preachy shibboleths
He’s such a role model for what a healthy left should be
He’s such a role model for what a healthy left should be
July 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I hope the smashing victory of Zohran is the final proof of how popular leftism is when it stops speaking in preachy shibboleths
He’s such a role model for what a healthy left should be
He’s such a role model for what a healthy left should be
So I think I write one short poem that rings true for me every 5 years. If I were to compile these poems now, I’d have less than 10! Hardly a collection, but I love it when a slow poem finally says yes, it’s finished.
June 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
So I think I write one short poem that rings true for me every 5 years. If I were to compile these poems now, I’d have less than 10! Hardly a collection, but I love it when a slow poem finally says yes, it’s finished.
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Donna Seaman recommends seven books you need to read (about reading).
Why Read: Seven Books About Our Passion and Need for Reading
I have written lists like this before during all the years I’ve been writing and giving talks about why books and reading matter. But I do so now with increasing urgency as we are inundated by a ts…
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June 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Donna Seaman recommends seven books you need to read (about reading).
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The United States, that "beacon of democracy", has intervened in 128 elections since 1946 to shape political outcomes in their own interests.
June 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The United States, that "beacon of democracy", has intervened in 128 elections since 1946 to shape political outcomes in their own interests.
What species of crow lives in Baguio? I need to know. There are so many and yet the Philippine Jungle Crow is unreported in Benguet on the eBird checklist.
June 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
What species of crow lives in Baguio? I need to know. There are so many and yet the Philippine Jungle Crow is unreported in Benguet on the eBird checklist.
Lost friends over Marcos, then Duterte, now Gaza. Nothing compared to the lives lost.
June 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Lost friends over Marcos, then Duterte, now Gaza. Nothing compared to the lives lost.
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One of the most beautiful Filipino words I know is the one I learned from Celine Murillo-- the word "Saribuhay" (Biodiversity). You could just sense the depth of meaning of this word.
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
One of the most beautiful Filipino words I know is the one I learned from Celine Murillo-- the word "Saribuhay" (Biodiversity). You could just sense the depth of meaning of this word.
Stumbled on this and now want to learn more about—and from, Naomi Rincon Gallardo.
“I am very invested in that sociocosmic space, narrated by humans but woven out of animal agencies, deities, cosmic beings and potencies intervening in everyday reality” artreview.com/naomi-rincon...
Naomi Rincón Gallardo’s Pedagogy of Agitation
“I am very invested in that sociocosmic space, narrated by humans but woven out of animal agencies, deities, cosmic beings and potencies intervening in everyday reality”
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May 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Stumbled on this and now want to learn more about—and from, Naomi Rincon Gallardo.
Forgot to share market moments lately. So here are snapshots from my past two palengke days. #baguioPUBLICmarket #keepitpublic
May 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Forgot to share market moments lately. So here are snapshots from my past two palengke days. #baguioPUBLICmarket #keepitpublic
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This one has alt text, sorry for the mistake on my part!
May 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This one has alt text, sorry for the mistake on my part!
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Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals.
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
May 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals.
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
But… what if I loved and used em-dashes galore long before AI crashed the party? 😢
May 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
But… what if I loved and used em-dashes galore long before AI crashed the party? 😢
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Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926, Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt
May 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Slightly Open Clam Shell, 1926, Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt
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Read this in Taglish. 🇵🇭
May 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Read this in Taglish. 🇵🇭
LF: feminist ob-gyne who understands and undermines the ways in which patriarchal medical systems harm women’s bodies and minds. Is that too much to ask?!
May 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
LF: feminist ob-gyne who understands and undermines the ways in which patriarchal medical systems harm women’s bodies and minds. Is that too much to ask?!
I’ll take Mother’s Day-Off over ‘happy mothers’ day” thank yew.
May 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I’ll take Mother’s Day-Off over ‘happy mothers’ day” thank yew.
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—siphiwe! excerpt here from her short story “what becomes of the broken-hearted” from harvest moon
soft nudge to re-read what we worked on <3 CC @lotusbearer.bsky.social @jpacarino.bsky.social
soft nudge to re-read what we worked on <3 CC @lotusbearer.bsky.social @jpacarino.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
—siphiwe! excerpt here from her short story “what becomes of the broken-hearted” from harvest moon
soft nudge to re-read what we worked on <3 CC @lotusbearer.bsky.social @jpacarino.bsky.social
soft nudge to re-read what we worked on <3 CC @lotusbearer.bsky.social @jpacarino.bsky.social
Written a year ago and I’m still screaming with the cicadas.
Cicadas
A poem inspired by and written with my neighbor cicadas. Play the audio to hear their voices as you read.
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May 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Written a year ago and I’m still screaming with the cicadas.
At 50, I’ve finally outgrown not wanting to be identified as feminist! Sure took me a while. Go ahead, call me angry and see if I care. 😘
May 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
At 50, I’ve finally outgrown not wanting to be identified as feminist! Sure took me a while. Go ahead, call me angry and see if I care. 😘