Author Archives: Fe Bongolan

About Fe Bongolan

Planet Waves writer Fe Bongolan lives in Oakland, California. Her column, "Fe-911," has been featured on Planet Waves since 2008. As an actor and dramaturge, Fe is a core member of Cultural Odyssey's "The Medea Project -- Theater for Incarcerated Women," producing work that empowers the voices of all women in trouble, from ex-offenders, women with HIV-AIDS, to young girls and women at risk. A Planet Waves fan from almost the beginning of Eric's astrology career, Fe is a public sector employee who describes herself as a "mystical public servant." When it comes to art, culture and politics, she loves reading between the lines.

Day One

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Fe Bongolan writes on the event-filled days between the RNC and DNC conventions: a WikiLeaks DNC email leak, Trump’s ties to Putin, and what could be Russian interference in American elections. It’s as though this transition between conventions was written as an international spy thriller by John Le Carre.

Let Me Get This Off My Chest

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Although Fe Bongolan would rather be writing a recipe for stewed shoes, she will make periodic visits this week to the mind and heart of American darkness — The Republican National Convention — which may at least provide us a way to wrap up any doubts we have about holding on to our nation’s past.

Nautilus

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Fe Bongolan writes on the trauma of last week’s events, and the need to release ourselves from worn-out ideas about race, culture, and gun violence in America. Can we begin to expand on our old understanding without resorting to defensiveness? Can we grow out of this phase?

Re-Establishing Connection

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As a remedy during these tumultuous and stressful times, Fe Bongolan writes on this phase in our history as a learning period on how to re-establish our connection to each other, starting first with our selves and ultimately each other.

Look Around…

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Fe Bongolan celebrates America’s Independence Day by writing on art and culture, reflecting on the smash Broadway hit “Hamilton” and our human yearning to broaden the vision of ourselves.

Thoughts and Feelings

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Stepping off her soapbox and back into her armchair, Fe Bongolan writes on the exhilaration and pain of watching the world turn this month — from Orlando to Occupy Congress, and Brexit — and asks how much more can we evolve from the challenge of today’s turmoil. How else can we try?

Brexit Plan

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It’s not every day you get to see one country spark a geopolitical domino-fall, affecting the lives of millions on an entire continent with a single referendum. Yet it happened. Overnight, the Brexit vote in the UK did just that. Fe Bongolan takes a look at the instability that has just been unleashed.

Appropriate Fury

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Congressional representatives staging a sit-in in Congress is more than unprecedented. It’s unheard of. Yet today, Congressman John Lewis led a contingent of Democrats to stage a groundbreaking sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives to demand Congress act on gun control legislation in light of the Orlando shootings. Fe Bongolan reports on today’s news.