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"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

-Arundhati Roy, The Cost Of Living

What struck me about these daringly direct essays was how Roy wrote about systems that crush people as if it were the most obvious thing in the world; yet she insisted on imagining something better.

That same tension is here, I think, in the work of living through harassment: naming what harms us without letting it erase the possibility of another way. If you’re after words that cut through the noise but still carry hope, this collection is worth sitting with.

FTR:I know the system wants us to believe nothing is shifting for the better right now. But I'm telling you: it can and it will. Quietly and insistently. If we focus on it.

Like calming and deepening the breath?

Marcel Antonio (Filipino, b. 1965)