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Paper Trail Projects Paper Trail Projects is a small press dedicated to poetry and other investigations in language driven by the poetic impulse.

NO TRUST IN THE TRUST FUNDPaper Trail Projects joins LAYA and SELDA in amplifying the call of Political Prisoners and ot...
11/08/2026

NO TRUST IN THE TRUST FUND

Paper Trail Projects joins LAYA and SELDA in amplifying the call of Political Prisoners and other Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) in the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) for accountability for the missing P6M from the CIW PDL Trust Fund.

CIW’s proposal to replace the missing P6M of deposits from the families and supporters of PDLs is to hike up the cost of five-minute phone calls made by PDLs from P3 to P5. Recovery of the missing P6M and the prosecution of the thieves should be the primary concerns of the CIW administration, not the cooking up of schemes to pilfer even more money from the victims of theft.

The CIW system in place for depositing to the trust fund is clumsy and inefficient. The stolen funds prove that it is truly insecure and totally untrustworthy. The money pooled in the trust fund helps cover the basic needs of the PDLS that CIW fails to supply. For this fund to disappear in the hands of the institution whose shortcomings it is trying to make up for is such a brazen display of impunity. It also flaunts sheer complacency in their ability to enforce the invisibility of PDLs, and thus silence any form of fighting back.

The PPs in CIW are fighting back, and we are following their lead. This cannot be another entry in the long history of unimpeded corruption. Until the accountants are held accountable, there will be no trust in the trust fund. Imbestigahan ang CIW at ibalik ang nawawalamg P6M! Lahat ng sangkot, dapat managot!

Copies of HILIG NG LIWANAG by Emily Dickinson and Faye Cura, PANSAMANTALANG MUNDO edited by Conchitina Cruz and Adam Dav...
09/08/2026

Copies of HILIG NG LIWANAG by Emily Dickinson and Faye Cura, PANSAMANTALANG MUNDO edited by Conchitina Cruz and Adam David, and BRAVE NEW WORDS VOLUME TWO edited by Angeli Lacson are available in Room V at Chapterhouse, Sikatuna Village, QC.

Also available are UNBECOMING by Angeli Lacson and BRAVE NEW WORDS VOLUME ONE edited by Adam David. Also still available through our order form here > https://forms.gle/eFpQgy6E34vZQ2Zf8 !

They are also free to read in Room V if you prefer that! So pull up a chair, munch on your nachos, sip on your cocktail or beer or iced tea as you sit back and relax and have your mind poeticised and politicised by Paper Trail Projects books!

All of us here at Paper Trail Projects - editors, authors, impromptu book sellers, cats - would like to thank and congra...
26/07/2026

All of us here at Paper Trail Projects - editors, authors, impromptu book sellers, cats - would like to thank and congratulate everyone who made last Friday’s book launch a happy happening - the contributors, the documentary filmmakers, the guests, the people who had plans to go but weren’t able to make it, the venue - everyone who bravely and generously trusted everyone else with their lived experiences, everyone who listened and sympathised and connected.

Disability and caregiving are inevitable to all; some of us merely arrive at one or the other sooner than most, some of us arrive at both at the same time; and the world continues to be cold and cruel thus the need for care (towards others, for the self) and the subsequent fight for disability justice grow more imperative for everyone’s sake.

Our hope with the second volume of BRAVE NEW WORDS is to highlight this reality, to help facilitate dialogue and expand individual connections to a possible wider network of care, to make even more visible a future that has always been already here but ignored for so long: the future is disabled, so the future is also care, for the self and towards others.

BRAVE NEW WORDS VOL 2 book launch will also feature a screening of the documentary PARA-PARAAN (FINDING A WAY THROUGH, 2...
22/07/2026

BRAVE NEW WORDS VOL 2 book launch will also feature a screening of the documentary PARA-PARAAN (FINDING A WAY THROUGH, 2025) by Mae Chan Li.

Kat, a wheelchair user, navigates a city where access is often improvised and inclusion remains uneven. Through everyday encounters and quiet observations, PARA-PARAAN (FINDING A WAY THROUGH) reveals the barriers embedded within ordinary spaces and the constant adjustments required to move through them.

What begins as a personal journey becomes a reflection on the systems that shape participation, exposing how resilience is too often expected where accessibility should exist.

The subject of the documentary, Katrina Hernandez, will be in attendance. The book launch and screening is this Friday, July 24, 530PM, in Chapterhouse, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City.

BRAVE NEW WORDS VOL 2 book launch this Friday, July 24, 530PM at Chapterhouse, Sikatuna Village, QC!Contributors will be...
20/07/2026

BRAVE NEW WORDS VOL 2 book launch this Friday, July 24, 530PM at Chapterhouse, Sikatuna Village, QC!

Contributors will be attending, a short documentary will be shown, and discussions will be held! Copies will be sold at the venue! Masking is encouraged! Plans and schemes for a more accessible reality founded on disability justice will be entertained!

18/07/2026

Pagbasa ni MARMAG ng isa sa kanyang maraming akda sa PANSAMANTALANG MUNDO. Si MARMAG ang valedictorian ng kanilang batch nitong nakaraang taon sa educational program ng DLSU sa Correctional Institution for Women. Ang kanyang valedictory address ang isa sa mga akdang mababasa sa PANSAMANTALANG MUNDO.

18/07/2026

Mula sa pahayag na binasa ni Chingbee Cruz sa lunsad-aklat ng PANSAMANTALANG MUNDO, koleksyon ng mga akda ng kababaihang bilanggong politikal, kasabay ng paglunsad ng LAYA Campaign ng Karapatan, et al.

Mula sa Panimula ni Amanda Soccoro L. Echanis:“Hindi mali ang lumaban, may mali kaya kailangan nating lumaban—lumaban sa...
16/07/2026

Mula sa Panimula ni Amanda Soccoro L. Echanis:

“Hindi mali ang lumaban, may mali kaya kailangan nating lumaban—lumaban sa isang bulok na sistema kung saan limpak-limpak ang kinukurakot ng iilan sa pamahalaan at wala ni isa ang nananagot—habang patuloy na tumataas ang bilang ng mga political prisoners o PPs sa kasalukuyan. Halos 700 ang PPs ayon sa grupong KARAPATAN at halos 200 dito ang kababaihan—mga ina, anak, kapatid, kaibigan, at kasama …

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"Sa totoo lang, mabigat sa damdaming basahin ang bawat akda dahil dama ko ang inhustisya at karahasan ng estado sa bawat pahina, ang sakit nang mapagkaitan ng kalayaan at manakawan ng bahagi ng buhay, at mawalay sa piling ng mga kasama, pamilya, at masang pinaglilingkuran.

"Ngunit kasabay ng bigat, higit na nagiging matimbang ang walang-sukat na liwanag at pag-asa na nagmumula sa mataas na pang-unawa sa kalagayan ng lipunan at kung bakit kailangang patuloy na lumaban at makibaka sa labas—at maging sa loob ng mga bakal na rehas—para makamit ang isang mas maalwang kinabukasan para sa bayan …

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"Sama-sama, nais kong anyayahan ang bawat isang mambabasa na sumilip sa bawat isang “larawan” na makikita sa mga akda, ngunit higit pa dito, nawa’y magsilbing hamon din ito para sa ating kolektibong aksyon at pagkilos para igiit at ipanawagan ang agarang paglaya ng lahat ng bilanggong-pulitikal sa Pilipinas. Mainam din kung magsilbi itong inspirasyon na magbahagi ng ating oras at bisitahin ang mga PPs o magpbigay ng suporta sa kanila. Tuloy ang laban sa loob at labas ng piitan!”

Co-published by Paper Trail Projects and Karapatan, PANSAMANTALANG MUNDO will be launched as part of LAYA: A CAMPAIGN TO FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, on July 18 (Sat), 10AM, 2nd Floor, Bocobo Hall, UP Law Center, UP Diliman. The launch price is Php 400.

You may also order the book at its regular price of Php 500 via the Paper Trail order form (link in comments). All proceeds will support political prisoners and the LAYA campaign.

15/07/2026

Narito na ang PANSAMANTALANG MUNDO: MGA AKDA NG MGA KABABAIHANG BILANGGONG POLITIKAL, 2024-2026. Nilathala ng Paper Trail Projects at Karapatan, ang librong ito ay ilulunsad sa paparating na Nelson Mandela Day, Hulyo 18 (Sabado), bilang bahagi ng paglulunsad ng LAYA: A CAMPAIGN TO FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. Kitakits ng 10AM sa 2nd Floor, Bocobo Hall, UP Law Center, UP Diliman.


Last day to pre-order BRAVE NEW WORDS Vol. 2: DISABILITY JUSTICE edited by Angeli Lacson! Link in comments to order. Hop...
11/07/2026

Last day to pre-order BRAVE NEW WORDS Vol. 2: DISABILITY JUSTICE edited by Angeli Lacson! Link in comments to order. Hope you can join us at the launch on July 24 (Fri), 5:30 PM, at Chapterhouse, 32 Madasalin St., Sikatuna Village, QC.

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