“Away with ‘padrinos’: Small DIY press fair champions indie artists, creators” | Jecko Sanjorjo

“The reality of cultural production in the Philippines is fraught with problems and the same age-old questions: What kinds of value does art provide in society and culture? Who gets to decide such value, and why? Who gets to create and access art? Who gets to have their works published or exhibited, and what rewards are there in making them—if there is even one?” 

More of  “Away with ‘padrinos’” in Philippine Daily Inquirer.

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Jecko finished BA Communication Arts at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

“In transit” | Jecko Sanjorjo

“There’s something awful about the physical movement of the in-transit-ness of commuting, too: It’s a stressful whiplash of a rush, like Morse code only with fuller and longer dashes, abruptly stopping here and there to pick up and drop off. You feel the passing of asphalt and cement beneath the roaring and vibrating mass of the vehicle’s floor.”

Kindly continue “In transit” in PDI Youngblood.

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Jecko is a senior communication arts student from the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

“On red-tagging, censorship, and book banning in Philippine university libraries” | Jecko Sanjorjo

 “The first reported instance of this book-purging is in Kalinga State University where books and documents on peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) were pulled out after a group of police and soldiers inspected the university library on September 1, 2021. Among the texts removed from the library are documents signed between the government and the NDFP during previous and historical peace negotiations, among several other NDFP documents. According to Evangeline Cabello, KSU’s chief librarian, she decided to remove the documents to “protect [the students] from being recruited to join communist groups,” adding that she acted voluntarily and thought that some not should have been removed. Moreover, she simply put the books “somewhere else” and had not turned them over to authorities (Subingsubing and Visaya).”

Ituloy ang “On red-tagging, censorship, and book banning in Philippine university libraries” sa ACT Forum Online.

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Jecko is a senior BA Communication Arts student at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. He is interested in criticism, cultural memory, and creative writing.