AFTL/ PUÓN Book Catalogue 2023

Alfredo F. Tadiar Library/ PUÓN Books

BOOK CATALOGUE

Published Books

Publication Year: 2021

Language: English

Format: Print Paperback

Pages: 196

Size: 6” x 9”

Price: PhP 550

ISBN: 978-621-96513-1-8

Cover art by Yllang Montenegro

Co-published by Gantala Press

The fulfillment, respect, protection, and enjoyment of the right of all women to attain and maintain the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, based on their informed decisions, evolved as the long term goal of what became the Women’s Health Rights Movement (WHRM) in the Philippines. After almost half a century of activities by various leaders and participants, who were often brought together by different reasons, issues, and causes, to provide for, inform, educate, and advocate for health services, programs, or policies and laws, that would lead to the attainment of this goal, these trailblazing activists (Pinay “origs”) are again realizing that, without continuous guarding of victories won and further social change, women’s health rights will constantly be under attack.

This collection of personal stories and reflections on the women’s health movement from the view of its pioneer advocates and service providers aims to provide others with the inspiration to carry on and to guide future generations in “keeping the fire burning.”

Florence M. Tadiar is a leader in the advocacy of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Philippines and Asia. Recognized for her lifelong work as on national, regional, and international projects on women’s health rights, gender equality, and HIV and AIDS, she has received numerous awards for her work in maternal/ family planning and child health, hospital administration education, and women’s health rights advocacy.

Publication Year: 2022

Language: English

Format: Print

Pages: 222

Size: 6” x 9

Price: PhP 550

ISBN: 978-621-96513-1-8

Cover art by Lyra Garcellano

Co-published by Gantala Press

The essays in the following pages are among the best writing that has ever been done in journalism in English regardless of place of origin. Their being released in book form provides not only a wider audience but also beginning journalists and those who have long been in the profession the opportunity to learn from one of journalism’s most capable practitioners, and to realize in reading them that writing in journalism can be as serious and as meaningful as “the splitting of the atom and the parting of the Red Sea” (Nick Joaquin).

Spanning three decades, the subjects of the latest of these masterpieces range from the extrajudicial murders and harassment of political and social activists and the drug-related killings that more than anything else define the Duterte despotism, to the lies its spokespersons and bureaucrats both in and out of the State media system spin daily, to the assaults on press freedom and on those citizens who have tried through such enterprises as community pantries to assuage the sufferings of their fellow human beings, and those other indicators of how, since 2016, this country has been in the hands of a pathological regime of the privileged few and of unreason and violence. But Rosario Garcellano also subjects to her analytical powers both the follies and sense of such past regimes as that of Benigno Aquino III’s, while correctly noting how, despite his accomplishments, “P-Noy” was nevertheless unable to escape the constraints of his class, and was thus unable to fully realize his promise, implicit in his vow to end poverty by eliminating corruption, to bring this country into the 21st century. (Luis V. Teodoro, Foreword).

Rosario A. Garcellano was editor of Mr&Ms, Celebrity, and Sunday Times Magazine, and the Opinion Editor for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Her book Mean Streets: Essays on the Knife’s Edge (Kalikasan Press 1991) won the Philippine National Book Award. She is a founding member on the editorial board of CoverStory, a new digital magazine run by independent veteran journalists.

Publication Year: 2023

Language: English

Format: Print

Pages: 246

Size: 6” x 9

Price: PhP 599

ISBN: 978-621-96513-1Cover art by Angela Taguiang

Co-published by Gantala Press

Here are memories of people who lived in Northern Luzon during the Marcos dictatorship, but lived the tyranny not in being bent by it but by resisting the stranglehold. All of the writers were young then, usually students in the various schools and universities. They write of memories about joining political demonstrations, spending their free time reading political tracts or learning from political oficers, evading the defensive protection of their parents, leaving the university and other promising careers, and then also of finding loves and sometimes having to leave them behind. They write, often in shocking detail after detail, of days of imprisonment and braving the worst kinds of abuse at the hands of soldiers…

Going by the stories in this book, a Solid North never existed. Every page here speaks to the new generation of Filipinos, and not only from the northern regions but from the north to the south, as they face a second Marcos presidency, pushed into power by a disinformation epidemic from which there can be no vaccine but the testimony of truth.

(Ma. Christina V. Rodriguez, Introduction)

Joanna K. Cariño was among the founders of the Cordillera People’s Alliance in 1984, and currently sits on its Advisory Council. She chairs SELDA-Northern Luzon, the organization of ex political prisoners. She is co-chair of SANDUGO, the Movement of Moro and Indigenous Peoples for Self-Determination. She is among the convenors of CARMMA (Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law).

Luchie B. Maranan is the Vice- Chairperson of the Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordilyera, an alliance of progressive cultural workers and organizations and artists. She has worked in various people and cause-oriented institutions and organizations dedicated to raising awareness on social justice, indigenous and human rights. She is a writer of poetry, creative non-fiction and children’s stories such as the Palanca award-winning “Ang Pangat, ang Ilog at ang Lupang Ninuno” about the Chico dam struggle.

Publication Year: 2023

Language: English

Format: Print

Pages: 140

Size: 6” x 9

Price: PhP 499

ISBN: 978-621-96795-0-3

Cover art by Manuel Ocampo

Déjà Vu: Essays on Art, Culture, and Style brings together a selection of essays by B. Carlo M. Tadiar on the topics of Philippine art, culture, and style. The essays are a selection from three decades of Tadiar’s writings previously published in The Manila Chronicle, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Metro Home and Entertaining, Esquire and Forbes. A prominent writer and editor working in the most influential cultural newspaper pages and magazines from the late 1980s to 2017, Tadiar’s insightful, acute, and witty pieces on major Philippine artists (Roberto Chabet, Pacita Abad, Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi, Fernando Amorsolo, Manuel Ocampo, Frankie Callaghan, Mark Justiniani and Karen Ocampo Flores) and art exhibits, popular culture and travel, and everyday style are important not only for their critical commentary on the high art, cultural landmarks, and fashion of an era. These pieces are important also for the singular perspective and critical, aesthetic sensibility that Tadiar brings to every subject.

“Reading Déjà Vu is indeed a déjà vu. Whether in the academe or for general readers, whether it is about art, culture or style, or whether it is about politics or our inanity, Déjà Vu reiterates that writing and reading is always a second time around or an inevitable eternal return to know yourself and expand your world.” Gary Devilles, author of Sensing Manila (Winner of the National Book Award 2022)

B. Carlo M. Tadiar studied Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. He has a master's degree in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York City. He was a staff member and subsequently editor of the lifestyle section of the Manila Chronicle. He was managing editor of Metro magazine, founding editor of Metro hiM magazine and Metro Home and Entertaining. He contributed regularly to the Philippine Daily Inquirer and to Esquire. He was editor of the Life section of Forbes magazine. He is the author of Kolboy: Denial, Disgust and the Production of Value in Male Sex Work in the Philippines (2021) published by the University of the Philippines Press.

ABOUT THE ALFREDO F. TADIAR LIBRARY

The Alfredo F. Tadiar Library was established in December 2017 as an independent reading and research library, free and open to the public, with PUÓN serving as its supporting space of public outreach and engagement. The Library’s mission includes the conservation, dissemination, and advancement of knowledge in the social, cultural, and natural history, literature, and broad arts of communities of the Northern Philippines region and its global diaspora, with the aim of fostering self-determination, meaningful civic engagement, creative imagination, social and economic justice, and the improvement and enjoyment of collective life.

Since it was established, the Alfredo F. Tadiar Library has importantly contributed to the fulfillment of its mission and goals by serving a vibrant hub of research, learning, and culture for communities in San Fernando, La Union as well as in the broader Northern Philippines. Through its various projects and activities, the Library has served and inspired diverse constituencies of students, local residents, retired senior citizens, and recent migrants and visitors to the area to become learners, writers, artists, and knowledge-producers.

As a publisher, the Alfredo F. Tadiar Library aims to fulfill its mission by publishing books that bring forth critical perspectives on Philippine social and political life, culture, art ,and history; marginalized stories, experiences, and voices, especially from communities of the Northern Philippines; and contemporary Philippine regional scholarship, literature, and creative writing.

For inquiries and book project proposals, please email aftadiarlibrary@gmail.com