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Chimmy Meer

chimmy, ma. jhayle meer is a Filipino poet and filmmaker with interest in feminism, documentary poetry, dreams, and post-structuralism. Her works appear or are forthcoming in Oyster River Pages, Pelikula Journal, Suspect, Brave New Words, and in her zine, Notes on the Family Portrait of Death. She urges Filipino artists, writers, educators, and media works to join SALAM Palestine and stand in solidarity with Palestinians and freedom-loving peoples of the world.

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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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