Lower Manhattan, 1988. Dorotea and her friends leave an after-hours club and walk into a Buddhist center mid-sitting. She sits for thirty minutes in silver platforms and glitter. What opened in that contradiction — rebel and meditator, organizer and writer, Filipina immigrant building a full creative life in a country that habitually underestimates the people it can't easily categorize — has never closed.

A Filipina American on duality, and the life that forms when activism, writing, and Zen practice refuse to stay in separate rooms.

https://doroteamendoza.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zYtjZFAjw