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Emmanuel Lacadin

Emmanuel Lacadin is an environmental educator, researcher, and advocate from the Philippines. He writes poetry, essays, and flash fiction in both English and Filipino. Some of his literary works have appeared in the Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism, Ani: Cultural Center of the Philippines Literary Journal, Heights, Anak Sastra, Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine. In 2020, he received the Loyola Schools Awards for the Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) and Joseph Mulry Award for Literary Excellence from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Tongue In Our Mouths

This is not my tongue, or my mother’s, or of my land. Law, however, says it is. A tongue shoved into our mouths, a clear violence of our body, of a people heavily oral, a clear violence disguised as benevolence, …

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