Disconnection & Longing

The Wound of Colonization on the Filipina Psyche

There’s a quiet grief that sits inside me, one that I didn’t always have words for. It’s the grief of being disconnected from a land and a lineage I only know through fragments and feelings. Being a Filipina immigrant, I’ve carried this longing with me since I was a child, even when I didn’t fully understand it.

I moved here when I was six, and my memori…