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Chimmy Meer

chimmy, ma. jhayle meer is a Filipino poet, filmmaker, and writer reimagining documentary poetry and documentary poetics through feminist theory. Her works appear or are forthcoming in Cordite Poetry Review, Suspect: Journal of Asian Writing and Arts, Brave New Words: Volume 2, Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image, Oyster River Pages, and elsewhere. She stands in solidarity with Palestinians and freedom-loving peoples of the world. Her most recent zine is called Rising from a Total Defeat (2025).

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Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: On Writing Poetry as Document

All her life my grandmother, Teresita Meer, taught at the University of Santo Tomas. She was the second eldest daughter among 13 siblings, and her family resided in a compound, once a big house, in Navotas City. Already deteriorated by the time I was born in 1994. My father would tell stories of how my grandmother’s father, Lolo Anghel, was a fierce activist imprisoned during Martial Law.

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