We Are No Longer Babaylan: Essays & Stories

"We Are No Longer Babaylan is a collection of lyric essays that interrogates family, origins, identity, trauma, healing, and femininity. Valmidiano investigates how one lives as a descendent of a disappearing matriarchal, spiritual, mystical culture in a society dominated by patriarchy and colonialism. These essays seek to find a way to communicate intimately on a personal and community-based level in a world that seems to value that connection less than ever"--