Cat Aquino 🌹🍉 @cat_aquino Twitter profile

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

8 months

my very 1st published research chapter on the double disappearance of manila's comfort woman statue is now out and citable in De-Commemoration: Removing Statues and Renaming Places” by Berghahn Books (English) and Fayard (French)! 🌺

Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

in 2019, a 🇵🇭 comfort woman memorial mysteriously disappeared (possibly taken by state forces) i got to explain how it happened & what it says abt 🇵🇭-🇯🇵memory politics at Nottingham Trent University's @VoicesActivism International Conference!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

filipinos!!! let's all!!! channel the same anger and rage!!! for BLM!!!! towards our own evil military and gov't, who are literally!!! actively, killing, raping, and abusing the poor in the middle of a PANDEMIC!!!!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

went through journals i used while i was a 🇵🇭 history teacher and saw smth one of my gr6 students told me: "teacher no matter how depressing history gets i'll always love history bc you teach it so well—you talk abt it like chismis" ☹️☹️☹️

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

oh she has a children's book!! deserve!!! 🥺🇵🇭🎉🎊

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

5 years

my brother kyle has autism but it hasn't stopped him from baking and cooking for the last few years!! he's open for orders bc he's finally happy with the results 🍞🧡 i'm (1) proud ate 🤧

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

7 months

i graduated from the erasmus mundus international master degree of children’s literature, media, and culture from the university of glasgow, aarhus university, and universitat autonoma de barcelona with a distinction (summa cum laude/uk highest honors) yesterday! 🎓✨

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BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

yay champion of the rose got a feature article!! 🌹⚔️✨

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

CHAMPION OF THE ROSE 🇵🇭 A Spanish colonization/Philippine history-inspired #GN 🌹 A princess fighting for independence ⚔️ A trans swordsman on a vengeance quest 👑 A deadly Tournament that will bring them together and change the empire forever #LGBTNPit #POC #YA #F #AC #AD

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

in 2019, a 🇵🇭 comfort woman memorial mysteriously disappeared (possibly taken by state forces) i got to explain how it happened & what it says abt 🇵🇭-🇯🇵memory politics at Nottingham Trent University's @VoicesActivism International Conference!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

5 months

today i learned that southeast asia’s very first comic may be this 1821 drawing of a philippine revolt against spain 🤯

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

1 year

our book deal is publishers weekly official now!! champion of the rose launches 2024 🌹🗡️🔥

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

champion of the rose says #Tumindig ! down with tyranny, down with duterte!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

i've seen way too many people (even some filipinos) claim that the Spanish Conquest was kinder to the 🇵🇭 than it was to Latin America, and that colonization wasn't "that bad", but in 1583 the bishop of manila said: (from Henry Kamen's "Empire: How Spain Became A World Power")

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

made a list of anti-colonial books, films, shows, and games for kids and teens for a masters class! 🔥📚🎬

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

finally an academic article that perfectly describes what growing up chronically online is like???

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

don't let us-centric media make you forget that police brutality is happening right under our noses too see: this detailed thread for near-daily reportage on the human rights violations committed by our own "law enforcement"

Regine Cabato

@RegineCabato

4 years

The government says it will exercise "human compassion" as a COVID-19 positive senator broke quarantine rules. Here's a thread of how / why Filipinos don't feel this on the ground. First, from Manila police today: "Anyone out at the wrong time will be shot, you sons of bitches."

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

10 months

i wrote a whole master’s dissertation on how philippine children’s books can be used for child sexual abuse prevention in grade schools! will be presenting it at my program symposium this wednesday 🇵🇭📚✨

CLMC Alumni Association

@ClmcAlumni

10 months

🚨Tomorrow🚨 We’re ready for CLMC Speaks and so are our brilliant speakers! Look at the impressive range of topics covered this year 🤩 See you there? @IntMastCLMC

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

happy #PansexualVisibilityDay from your local frying pan fucker 💕💛💙

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

i know we're not supposed to respond to trolls but this reply was too funny to ignore I'M LITERALLY A LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING MAJOR HONEY

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

today i learned LST (yes, ateneo's LST) was supposed to be named "SHIT" (from ambeth ocampo, "storm chasers")

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

6 months

SURPRISE i now help the wonderful folks at daphne press/illumicrate make incredible and exciting fantasy and scifi books!! 🧚🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️🪐🛸

Daphne Press

@Daphne_Press

6 months

We’re thrilled to announce the newest member of the Daphne Press team! Say hello to Cat Aquino (they/she), our new Editorial Assistant. Cat’s taste is an excellent fit for the diverse, exciting stories we’re looking to champion, and we are delighted to welcome them to the team.

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

same day, from a parent: "you are a breath of fresh air to my daughters...thank you for coming back to your school to teach" 😣😣😣 tbh i think i messed up a lot w the admin side things (the point that i still beat myself up for not doing better,,) but,, at least i have these,,

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

11 months

finally submitted my 88 page masters dissertation today! 💫 it’s all about filipino picturebooks about child sexual abuse (specifically incest & the online sexual exploitation of children) & how teachers & kids can read them in classrooms for child sexual abuse prevention 🇵🇭

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

utterly obsessed with this one 19th century filipina poet and her revolutionary dress

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

champion of the rose got featured in the philippine star, alongside so many great filipino lgbtqa+ comics! 🌈⭐️ thank you so much, @ek_phwriter 🥳

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

OH MY GOD MY THESIS GOT ACCEPTED INTO AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

1 year

hello world!! after much secrecy!! we are finally announcing CHAMPION OF THE ROSE’s publisher and book deal TONIGHT!! 🌹⚔️🔥🔥

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

6 years

a psych prof once asked my class what we thought of calling out sexual harassers, and the first people to raise their hands said that quiet and silence are better than publicly speaking up. these first people were boys. i think this says a lot.

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

once again i am thinking about korean hadestown persephone's Sheer Aura

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

why do dds justify airing out their opinions as "freedom of speech" but call for #YesToABSCBNShutDown

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

this is a subtweet for every atenean who defends the pnp/afp because they have relatives there and "not all military are bad". that's like saying "not all men" get your heads out of your asses

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

8 months

after 2 years, 7 countries, 7 universities, and 384892844929 hours spent poring over all sorts of children’s and YA media (while working on champion of the rose and trying really hard not to die!!)!! i’m graduating with distinction at the university of glasgow this december!!!!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

1 year

🌹⚔️✨ CHAMPION OF THE ROSE MANGA 🇵🇭 🔥✨

Dominique 😴

@artominique

1 year

CHAMPION OF THE ROSE will be published by @VIZMedia !! Our angry, anti-colonial, fantasy YA comic inspired by Filipino/Spanish/Latinx history will be a 4-volume series from Pokémon, Naruto, & Demon Slayer’s English manga publisher!! (summer 2025 in bookstores around the world!!)

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

help i just got a training offer from p*nguin r*ndom h*use's children's editorial department!!!!!!!!!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

🗡🌹 and 👑✨ by @artominique ! #originalcharacter

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

5 years

alright whose grand idea was it to give principe 4 ph 103 classes this sem

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

my sister’s high school humanities and social sciences track is going to study fullmetal alchemist!!!!!!! !!!! !!!!!!!! and ken liu!!!!!!!!!!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

🌹⚔️CHAMPION OF THE ROSE THE HUNGER GAMES X GAME OF THRONES X SPANISH COLONIZATION X 🇵🇭 Rey, trans swordsman, must fight in a deadly Tournament as a princess’s champion so that he can finally return to his homeland. #DVpit #GN #YA #POC #LGBT #F #AC #AD

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

someone on fb shared champion and said this 😳 if this manifests a show with castlevania/avatar/mappa/wit studio style animation @artominique and i will die on the spot 😳

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

covid testing needs to be free!! it is in other countries goddamit!!

• Mugen 🐱

@tr1pnaut1k

3 years

Just realized, Covid testing an entire household can wipe out a breadwinner's half a month's income.

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

made it to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 after a day of flying solo (for the very first time!!) this is my view for the next 10 days

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

6 years

today my boyfriend @Tuejays and i made a zine out of random shapes 🦅

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

so honored to be a 2022 @OtherwiseAward fellow for speculative fiction in children’s literature! 🥳🎉

Otherwise Award

@OtherwiseAward

2 years

We’re delighted to announce our 2022 Otherwise Fellows, @____edwardelric , @jamsternazzy and @dntlz ! The Otherwise Fellowships honor emerging creators who are using speculative narrative to change the way we think about gender.

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

CHAMPION OF THE ROSE HIT 1.2K+ VIEWS ON I'M TEARING UP !! MY BABY !! 🥺 🥺 🥺

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

here are the 1st 4 pages of my graphic novel, champion of the rose! it's a YA fantasy-action-adventure comic inspired by the spanish colonization of the ph 🇵🇭✨ you can help gia and i get an agent/publisher by quote rt'ing and replying to this tweet! 🌹⚔️

Dominique 😴

@artominique

4 years

🌹⚔️CHAMPION OF THE ROSE When a princess’ hand in marriage is made the grand prize of a king’s deadly Tournament, she strikes a deal with a trans swordsman: if he fights for her to help her win her own hand, he can finally return to his homeland. #DVpit #YA #POC #LGBT #F #AC #AD

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

empire and colony flags for champion of the rose 🏵🚩

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

I DID IT i'm going to be an erasmus mundus international master student of children's literature, media, and culture from september 2021 to may 2023!! 🥳

Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

i finally finished my last masters scholarship application ! time for me to cry and live in fear for the next few weeks/next 2 months !

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

just got my 1st tattoo ever: a waling waling orchid (endemic to the philippines) inspired by my lola and her garden 🌸

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

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HEIGHTS

@HeightsAteneo

4 years

BREAKING: The Vice President for the Loyola Schools announces the list of recipients of the Loyola Schools Awards for the Arts for School Year 2019-2020 via Blueboard. Congratulations to all the awardees!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

@J_faenboy chismis unites all filipinos young n old

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

living in manila is just: are the sounds in my ceiling akyat bahay footsteps or a giant rat

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

A Lot happened this year (graduation, 2 writing fellowships, the lsaa, 5 publications, 1st teaching job, research gigs, & champion of the rose) so i made my own website! 🖋✨ includes champion's first 8 pages, links to my other works, & more!

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

2017-2018: the statue used to stand in front of the 🇯🇵 embassy. the 🇯🇵 gov't did not like this, so 🇵🇭 officials like duterte & the dep't of foreign affairs came to 🇯🇵's defense. the city of manila removed the statue & used road construction as an excuse, but never returned it.

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

5 years

my new dream is to create a youtube series for philippine lit a la crash course by the green brothers

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

5 years

in case anyone's interested, he's taking orders at gluteny on facebook 🥖✨ everyone knows that i'm a picky eater so imagine my shock when i realized that his gluten-and-dairy-free food tastes good!! remy the rat could never

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

grad schools be like "i know a place" and send you to ielts centers to prove that u, a poc native english speaker, speak english, and change you $100+ app fees

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

my dds parents are laughing and celebrating ABS-CBN's shutdown in the other room. ika nga ni padme amidala, "so this is how liberty dies . . . with thunderous applause." i need to leave this fucking house as soon as i can

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

the missing comfort woman statue fits the pattern of 🇵🇭 sacrificing national memory & truth for 🇯🇵. (personal note: this worries me a lot. it tells me that 🇵🇭 memory & history—including & beyond Martial Law—are at the mercy of other nations & local elites.)

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

back to teaching kids tomorrow (and this time it’s creative writing)!! 🖋✨

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

I GOT MY FIRST GRAD SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE LETTER

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

let's all act before things escalate! #JUNKTERRORBILL

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@altermidya

4 years

Sino ang pwedeng pagbintangang 'terorista' sa ilalim ng Anti-Terrorism Bill?

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

applying for visas as a filipino/third world citizen is my joker origin story

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

9 months

champion of the rose’s 1st author event appearance at the london #ESEAAuthorsLitFest (with dominique calling from 7 timezones ahead) ✨✨

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

researching fandom studies rn and finding what might be the most batshit academic title ever

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

5 years

a thread of women writers & artists who inspire me to make stuff ✂️ agnes arellano and her notebooks

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

NOPE back when i started champion of the rose at age 13 every single character was white and straight, and i only allowed myself to write filipino characters after graduating from high school. western publishing really brainwashed tiny cat

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

MA I DID IT

HEIGHTS

@HeightsAteneo

4 years

Heights is proud to announce the accepted fellows for the 25th Ateneo Heights Writers' Workshop. Congratulations! #AHWW25

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

ok i have a big big exciting secret book deadline on oct. 17 so this is now my progress/accountability thread for finishing a graphic novel script in 17 days! 🪶✨

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

4 years

it’s grad pic day 🌞

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

moved into my apartment and walked around to buy groceries today!! time to call glasgow home for the next 4 months 🌬

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@cat_aquino

5 years

ateneo’s 500 peso late guidance testing fee is the scam of the century

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@cat_aquino

3 years

yes my pronouns r she/they

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@cat_aquino

4 years

bojack spoilers /// diane nguyen really summed up my college social life huh

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

3 random british dudes were yelling “eww! gross!!” while i was puking on a bar floor last night but when i lifted my face to see them they did a FULL 180 & said “i love your coat!” & “get well soon!!”………i may be a disaster but i guess im an ok looking disaster…?,,

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

I JUST WON AN INTERNATIONAL BOOK GIVEAWAY??? WHAT???//??/

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@cat_aquino

10 months

guess who chopped all their hair off

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@cat_aquino

5 years

i'm procrasting on thesis research so❤️ this tweet for a reading recommendation based on what i think of you 📚

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

idk how i did it but my whole life fit in 1 luggage and 1 backpack 📦

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

been thinking about how not having the palanca awards to aim for has helped me grow as a writer 🤔 if they were still around i'd be churning out short stories hoping to win one, and i probably wouldn't be working on champion 🤔 🤔 🤔

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

i met virginia woolf today! (it’s the only statue in the whole world that matches what she actually looked like, and it’s right in front of her old bloomsbury home 💚) i really don’t know where i’d be without her. i said a quiet thank you before leaving.

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@cat_aquino

1 year

lynda barry articulating why working with kids is so fun 🪀

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@cat_aquino

3 years

i didn’t want to expect too much from my first quarantine birthday but my family surprised me with an animal crossing themed party and my friends sent a shitton of food and letters!!!! my heart and tummy are so full 🧁🍃

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@cat_aquino

3 years

listen up people (ESPECIALLY filipinos): even if you know someone is LGBTQA+, DON'T OUT THEM. especially to homophobic, catholic adults. i don't care how queer they act online. their social media accounts might be their only safe spaces from the outside world.

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@cat_aquino

3 years

apparently it is #PansexualVisibilityDay 💖💛💙

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@cat_aquino

2 years

2019: the plot thickens. tulay foundation (who commissioned the statue) & flowers4lolas (a collective of grassroots activist orgs supporting comfort women) readied to put the statue elsewhere. until unknown men threatened/scared the sculptor & /stole/ it.

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

have no idea if it'll get accepted but i submitted my very filipino, very spirited away middle grade novel concept to a writing clinic today 🤧 1 small victory as i crawl out of this imposter syndrome writing slump

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@cat_aquino

4 years

absolutely LIVID at how this government is using this lockdown as an opportunity to forward totalitarian moves that would've triggered physical, public protests had we all been allowed outside. LIVID. #DefendPressFreedom #OustDuterte

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

5 years

there are only 2 genders: rover and booth sitter

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@cat_aquino

3 years

holy shit i posted an ig story about how i'm teaching my grade 5 kids about philippine revolts against spain this week and a random spanish dude (who i've never met/doesn't follow me) slid into my dms and mansplained colonization and ph history to me???

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@cat_aquino

11 months

matchy with the vogue philippines historian photoshoot 📚

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vogue ph, you may have ate that one thing… the ‘craft’ issue highlights women of filipino culture: national scientist Dolores Ramirez, art curator Marian Pastor Roces, natl artist for dance Alice Reyes, historian Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, and culinary luminary Glenda Baretto.

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@cat_aquino

2 years

can’t believe even jose rizal is taller than me

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@cat_aquino

4 years

meme of the month

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@cat_aquino

3 years

the university i got accepted into has the world's first and only center for fantasy studies!!! my heart!!!!

University of Glasgow

@UofGlasgow

4 years

We're excited to launch the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic - the first research centre in the world to focus solely on #fantasy ! 🌍 The centre will bring together the biggest group of academics working in this field More 👉 @UofGFantasy

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

thinking about: the world's loneliest tree

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

on the topic of not knowing what to say when white people say the worst things about colonization: when i showed a 🇪🇸 person champion of the rose in my very 1st week in the 🇬🇧, they held my shoulder & said: “don’t take it too personally. that colonization thingy wasn’t personal.”

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

2 years

visited bantayog ng mga bayani, the memorial for filipinos who fought the marcos dictatorship. the short biographies of the murdered/disappeared by marcos’s police and military fill two thick books (and one more in the making)

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

writing a paper on one hundred years of solitude and tearing up thinking about how much of it (families doomed to repeat the mistakes of their forefathers, the cyclicality of time) is in the philippines too. hate how most of the global south is all cursed thanks to imperialism

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

here's a quick rundown of our kids!! 🗡 rey is a trans swordsman on a vengeance quest 🇵🇭 teo is his pintado warrior boyfriend 🐀 santi is a trickster kid à la gavroche from les mis 👑 and rosa is a mestiza princess who longs for independence!

Dominique 😴

@artominique

3 years

🌹✨ I'm excited to announce that CHAMPION OF THE ROSE, the Hunger Games- and 🇵🇭history inspired, fantasy YA graphic novel @____edwardelric and I have been working on, 📢 is currently on submission to publishing houses with @agentpaloma !!📢 ✨ #visiblewomen #poc #lgbt

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Cat Aquino 🌹🍉

@cat_aquino

3 years

forgot 2 mention here that i’m currently in london 💂🏻‍♀️🇬🇧

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