#igorot

I'll be part of an art exhibition in Luneta Art Fair this coming Saturday-Sunday Feb 7-8!! The venue will be in the Noli Mi Tangere garden :] drop by to support me n my classmates if you can :D The theme and exhibit name is Sonder

Ifugao Gothika: The Igorots of the Cordilleras

This is solid proof that the common excuse, "Rape is inevitable in times of conflict," is simply not true. See, in Bontok versus Bontok warfare, they will not even dare raise the skirts of the women. This is why in their wars, there was never a single case of rape.

I can no longer take Lamictal*, but getting inked for my birthday--especially in a traditional manner, complete with the pain of the lemon thorn being repeatedly tapped into my skin--pulled me out of a major downward bipolar spiral and is stabilizing my mood, which in turn is improving my physical health. Some would say it's a placebo effect, but even if it is, I'm fine with that. It has worked for indigenous peoples for tens of thousands of years, and I'm thankful to Ate Wamz here in Baguio for sharing that part of Igorot culture with me.

My physical therapist was actually amazed at the progress I've made. He had expected my shoulder to get worse because I'd missed a couple of sessions, and asked what I had done to get so much improvement so quickly. He even had me skip one of the usual machines because he said there was no need for it anymore. I'm aware that correlation does not necessarily equal causation, but it would be just as foolish to dismiss the possibility of causation as it would be to insist blindly upon it.