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CE Gatchalian
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Author who writes in multiple genres. Filipinx queer neurodivergent 64-16 (“Vancouver”-born, “Toronto”-based). https://linktr.ee/cegatchalian
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 4d
“You say you’re not going to make the same mistakes your parents made. But I didn’t realize how many other mistakes were available.”
- Sharon Olds
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 6d
"Literary prizes can give the impression that art is a competition. Take it from a ferociously competitive person: Art is anti-competitive. Art is a long, unending conversation between generations."
- Lauren Groff
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · 8d
A big part of our fundraiser is helping bring Maki Yi, an extraordinary Korean Canadian artist, to TO to work with director Peter Hinton-Davis. Her insight and collaboration are vital to the play’s soul.

DONATE HERE:
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#FallingInTime #CanadianTheatre #QueerTheatre
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CultureBrew.Art @culturebrewart.bsky.social · 10d
🎉 Artist Members: Post Opportunities for HALF the Price! 🎉

Thrilled to announce a brand-new perk for all CBA Artist Members: 50% off the posting fee when you promote your opportunity on CBA – artist calls, jobs, funding, awards & more.

Post today for just $15!
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CBA MEMBERS-ONLY PERK Post Opportunities for HALF the Price! Just $15 per posting!
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CultureBrew.Art @culturebrewart.bsky.social · 13d
#CBAOpportunity: The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance is hosting a GVPTA INDUSTRY HANGOUT for BLACK THEATRE ARTISTS!
REGISTER HERE:
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#CultureBrewArt #CultureBrewArtists #IBPOC #BIPOC #BIPOCArtists #IBPOCArtists #BCArtists #VancouverArtists #BlackArtists
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · 16d
Today we launch! ✨

Help us make the FALLING IN TIME design workshop happen — a small step toward a big dream.

Even $5 or $10 makes a difference. Let’s make it happen, together.

#FallingInTime #SupportTheArts #StrengthInNumbers
Donate to Help Launch Falling in Time: Our Design Workshop, organized by Chris Gatchalian
We’re building something extraordinary — and you can help shape it f… Chris Gatchalian needs your support for Help Launch Falling in Time: Our Design Workshop
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · 22d
It’s been a week since I found out and it’s still top of mind for me. RIP to my amazing friend and colleague JD Derbyshire.
JD (Jan) Derbyshire - KORU Cremation | Burial | Ceremony
JD (Jan) Derbyshire peacefully kicked the bucket on Sept 26th, 2025. A curious, non-binary, queerdo lesbian, proud parent and working class artist, they haphazardly “trained” with Keith Johnstone at L...
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · Sep 30
“My theory is that a poem is troubled into its making. It’s not like a thing that blooms; it’s a thing that wounds. I had a terror I could tell to none, as Dickinson would say.”
- Lucie Brock-Broido
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · Sep 30
"I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."
- Nina Simone
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Sep 30
T-post in Sweden sent me one of their designer “readable t-shirts” for free. It’s literally a magazine-in-the-shape-of-a-shirt. Here’s me modelling it. Anything to promote literacy!

#tshirt #tpost #wearabletshirt #wearableshirt
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Sep 28
In this recent open statement about the killing of Palestinian journalists that I signed along with 243 other authors, my name is paired with Mohamed Abu Hasira, who was killed in Nov 2023 when Israeli forces targeted his home. Rest in power.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

#freepalestine
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Sep 21
Have been dramaturging Isobel Rondeau’s play WINGS OF AN ANGEL as part of my immensely rewarding stint at the Ryga Arts Festival in Summerland.

And like, that view.

#IndigenousTheatre #CanadianTheatre #Dramaturgy #Playwriting #SummerlandBC
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Sep 17
Thrilled to be on the unceded, ancestral, traditional territory of the Syilx people for the Ryga Arts Festival—I’ll keep you posted on what I’ve got going on this week. In the meantime, just enjoying this view, and the devastating beauty of my home province.
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Sep 11
Not celebrating, but not mourning. #charliekirk
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Sep 11
City’s approval of Vancouver Harry Potter event draws ire of LGBTQ2 community | Globalnews.ca
J.K. Rowling has come under fire for her views on transgender rights. She has described transgender hormone therapy as a “new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people.”
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Sep 6
Cdns finally waking up about the genocide in Palestine.
In Gaza-Israel conflict, sympathies now shared equally between both sides after shift in Canadian opinion - Angus Reid Institute
Concern over genocide allegations drives increase in calls for a full ceasefire February 12, 2024 – As the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza drags on, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Instit...
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Sep 2
Some of you—smarter, wiser, faster on the uptake—dismissed Ayn Rand from the get-go. I admire you. Deeply. Unfortunately, it took me a lot longer to figure it out. My latest Substack piece is a brief account of how I finally stopped drinking her poisonous Kool-Aid.

#aynrand #objectivism #inrecovery
PENSIVE ADVENTURES: On Ayn Rand
The Fetishization of the Self (Or, Why I’m No Longer an Objectivist)
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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · Aug 26
With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements, #TheAntifaComicBook.

👉 Out now in Canada (USA September 2, 2025). Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-...
The cover of the book "The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded" by Gord Hill, with stacked text above reading, "Happy book birthday!", along with the book title, subtitle, and author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp dot com. At the top of the book cover in large bold letters is the book title, “The Antifa Comic Book,” and the subtitle, “Revised and Expanded.” Below the title is a comic-style illustrated panel of a group of protesters holding up a large banner that says “Smash Fascism” with a logo of a fist punching a swastika. A flag that says “Antifascist Action” rises above the crowd. Below the illustration is the author’s name, “Gord Hill,” and words that read, “Author of the 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book.” The text and illustration are placed against a black background. Self-portrait of Gord Hill.
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Aug 16
Navigating both the Toronto heat and the mysteries of the Pinter play I just saw at Soulpepper. #OldTimes #HaroldPinter #TorontoTheatre #SummerHeat
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Aug 4
Long weekend languor. #toronto #longweekend #simcoeday #summer
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CultureBrew.Art @culturebrewart.bsky.social · Jul 21
“CultureBrew.Art will be a game-changer for our artists and arts production in Canada.” – Jean Yoon

Thanks to her generosity, BIPOC artists can now access a free membership via the JEAN YOON BURSARY FUND!

Apply here: culturebrew.art/bursary

#BIPOCArtists #DiversityInTheArts
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Jul 20
2 people called me sexy today.
this post is unrelated.
(unless it isn’t.)
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 18
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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CE Gatchalian @cegatchalian.bsky.social · Jul 17
While our politics can be clean, sex never is.

#SexualPolitics #QueerTheory #EroticPower #RadicalDesire
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