Resistance: Everywhere and All the Time

As resisting on my own behalf became resisting on behalf of marginalized peoples, I lost sight of what resistance meant to me.

I aggrandized grandiose, organized methods, but Manalansan redirected me back to something more elementary than that.

Resistance can also be intimate, ephemeral, and without a static end goal.

Manalansan references interior design and the places one frequents, but comprehensively, resistance is entangled in everyday expression.

It is the music I listen to, the words I use, the clothes I wear.

The resistance is me, making it, in a world that seeks to drown my voice out.

by Dominic Bertollini