Of Love and Other Lemons

"Santiago peels back the smugness of middle-class feminism so slowly you feel her priming herself for a vulnerable search for how women love, fight, and after all of it, survive. In this situation, she is now longer the ninja star for which my forehead could be a target, but someone as she presses, who is with us in womanhood. While our ideologies may clash, and while she continues to debate within herself, the book asks we forego that. She argues that words come into existence when they are relevant, and so if there is no Filipino word sisterhood, then at least there is this book.

'Of Love and Other Lemons' is a book about women, and it is a book about love. Through the book, Santiago argues not just the merit of being a feminist Pinay- itself a colloquial version of the gendered 'Filipino' - but also of the limits of feminism to fully encompass what it means to be the one."

- Mara Coson

Other Category: Feminism