attempt 2

So, I'm really tired right now.  Probably because I slept in twenty-minute snatches every night for the past three nights.

But had some more amazing interviews - both today with women from GABRIELA, a more radical group than the others I've been talking to, so they discussed the semi-colonial, semi-feudal state of the Philippines a lot more.  It's been really interesting seeing the conflicts, divisions and disagreements between groups that at first glance seem to be working for the same thing.  For instance, two activists both fighting violence against women can be fiercely opposed to each other's work.  if one sees culture as the root caues of VAW, and the other sees economic and political structures, then they can both be working to help battered women, but through methods that actually work at cross-purposes. this is of course a blatant oversimplification, however.

I'm running into this problem that everything I can say about any of this is a blatant oversimplification.

But wait, that's another issue.  what was I wanting to write about again?  ARRRRRRR  i have an interview tomorrow at 8:30 i'm going to get MAYBE seven hours of sleep tonight and i need approximately 20.  wtf.

Okay.  one more post.  a short, specific, more narrative, more interesting one.  GO, camila, go.