Category: Archipelago Stories

  • On Health, Colonialism, and What it Means to Eat

    After all, culture is essentially what survives. The survival strategies that individuals adapted in times of exploitation, the strategies that developed into the celebrated and loved culture of gorengan—it is resistance in the basest form. Behind the culture, there exists a terrible history, but right now, it is what it…

  • The Politics of Hygiene

    There is no textbook answer on how to rid ourselves of history. But here I am, with my family of strangers in a foreign land full of memory and wounded pride and indignation and grief, and I find myself content. This, however flawed it may be, is my answer, for…