For New Naratif, I wrote an essay that's part journalism, part memoir, about a landslide in a village near my hometown of Baguio that took around 100 lives last month. Entitled "30 minutes and a World Apart", my essay is about the long-standing economic and cultural divide between Baguio City, where I grew up, and the mining villages that surround it, and how the indigenous peoples who find sustenance in the nearby mines remain invisible to the city's inhabitants. You can read the full essay here, but I highly recommend supporting New Naratif, which provides an important space for stories about Southeast Asia, by buying a subscription to the magazine.
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