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Puso ᜉᜓᜐᜓ written in Baybayin, a pre-colonial Philippine script, is Tagalog /Ilokano for heart (puʻuwai in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi). This piece highlights the journey of delving deeply into the childhood and ancestral trauma that shapes who we become. In acknowledging and exploring the hurt we live with and perpetuate (bracketed by the patriarchal, imperialist matrix) and as we learn again and again in the dysfunction of our intimate relationships, we finally find ways to transform, let go, and heal. Finding my power, symbolized for me here in invoking our precolonial script as a decolonial Pin@y, I began to dissolve the protective walls I've made in response to violence, to open myself up to receiving the love I truly deserve. The Tagalog goddess of love, childbirth and peace, Diyan Masalanta - her name means to be destroyed. Followers prayed to her for protection from natural disasters as well as in matters of the heart, conception/fertility and peace. Perhaps it is during these trials of destruction that we grow in spirit, learn compassion and what true love means within ourselves, in our partnerships and in community. This image was originally created in 2017 as a lino block print by Chris Lipat.

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