From Tinder To Flame Chapter 1 of Uriel’s Prophecies I meet Uriel in a park across the street From a local cafe in Little Italy, Their mask bright and glittering with fractal Holographic flames, covering half their face Short thick curls of their beard peeping Out in the gaps of the string looped Around ears […]
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This is what I learned you start off full of excitement and hope finally! something that you believe in! finally! something that can help people! finally! something… just but underneath it all is weeping relief that says “finally, I’m gonna be saved” This is what I learned next, you think it’s about your resume not […]
Throwback Thursday: Charity (2011)
https://youtu.be/sMyBEQNyVCY Image Description: A photo of the a bronze statue of a Filipina woman, the bust of her head larger than the background depicting the Philippine Revolution. The words at the top read: “Tandang Sora Memorial Shrine at Himlayang Pilipino, Quezon City, Philippines”. The title reads “Charity”. The website addresses are “Lukayo.com” and “www.patreon.com/lukayo”. Content Warning: […]
Fresh Friday: Bitoon
Before the word “trauma” was taken from the Greeks By the English and brought to Luzon and Bisayan shores via American false promises of salvation My people knew it already In the stories of creation I knew it already In the rhythm of my family’s name When I listen to these social workers and doctors […]
Throwback Thursday: Face It (2011)
Image Description: On a pink wall there is a mirror with a pink frame. In the mirror there are partial reflections of a door way, green plants, and their shadows. The text on top of the image reads: “face it” and “lukayo.com” and “www.patreon.com/lukayo”. Content Warning: abuse, substance abuse, self-harm it is like trying to […]
Throwback Thursday: Sticks & Stones
Image Description: A black-and-white ink drawing of two dark-skinned hands holding each other. The hands are framed in a diamond/square, where each side of the diamond/square is made of different things. On the bottom, the left side is made of a long stick and the right side is made out of stones, rocks, and pebbles. […]
Throwback Thursday: The Civilizer
Original 2008; Revised 2018 Hello. Have you ever felt that your life was savage, barbaric, less than ideal? Tired of living close with the earth? Bored of your rich, oral traditions? Suddenly doubting the validity of the herbal knowledge that’s served your community for hundreds of years? Fed up with the symbiotic relationship of humans, […]
Fresh Friday: By Tooth and Claw
For Luka When Bear came to me in a dream, I felt alone in the world and abandoned by Creator Her form seemed like a hulking threat A silent judgement Yet she waited till I approached Night after night year after year She was my strength and my balm To my tears and aches my […]
Throwback Thursday: Scars
Image Description: A black-and-white ink drawing of an eye with dark sclera emerging out of a wound with three stitches on either side. The word “SCARS” is superimposed on top and faded, with Lukayo’s signature in English and basahan/baybayin under the “R” and “S” of the word “SCARS”. Content Warning: allusions to death, sexual assault, […]
Fresh Friday: A Litany of Things That Were Never Yours For The Taking
Content Warning: Sexual assault, franchise colonialism, settler colonialism, anti-Black racism, cisgenderism/transphobia, misogyny, femmephobia Image description: A photograph taken by Lukayo Estrella of the Mayon Volcano, with coconut trees and lush jungle in the foreground. The text over the photograph reads: “A Litany of Things That Were Never Yours For the Taking” and “patreon.com/lukayo“. A Litany […]