Language fluency is activism.

Memory isn’t only academic. It shouldn’t be reduced to a school requirement or a shallow trend. It should be embodied, oral, and alive.

But neutrality is not always innocent.

not just for performance but for practice. Performance is easy to spot. You know when someone is faking it, and you know when someone is sincere. When you truly know something by heart, you don’t need an audience.

They aren’t dead. Just silenced.

Baybayin has been miscast and misunderstood. Reduced to an aesthetic, it now lives in currency designs or as an optional subject in some schools. It shows up when artists use it in branding or in viral graphics, but not often in deep academic discussions.

Abinales and Amoroso, in their 2005 work State and Society in the Philippines

They channeled energy from nature, the stars, the trees, the spirits that moved through the wind and water. It was animistic, yes, but also intuitive and ancient. Babaylans used their gifts to heal sickness, protect the pregnant, and ward off disease.

arcane