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Benj Gabun Sumabat

Benj Gabun Sumabat is a trilingual Ilokano poet and essayist from the Northern Philippines. Their work has appeared in local and international journals and anthologies and engages questions of belonging and unbelonging, queerness, disability politics, urban longing, the blue humanities, and translingual writing. They are completing a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

2 Kilometer Confession in Manila Baywalk

I am not from Manila. I could not navigate the streets like you draw them on the back of a receipt while we wait for the microwavable sisig in 7-Eleven. I pin my location and pin the destination. Sometimes, I …

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