And in providing relief for themselves, they provide relief to the reader so that we can push on through their testimonies. Despite their pain, there is still joy in the lolas’ world. She dances with her dalagas and with the lolas, and tells us so. 'Galang dances, literally dances, around the main narrative of testimony. And most importantly: she gives the Filipina victims a powerful voice.' -Griselda Molemans, investigative reporter Evelina Galang contributes powerful evidence for a war crime that has been structurally overlooked and downplayed. M. Evelina Galang brings us into the Lolas' House, and we feel them in our hearts.' -Johanna Poethig, Artist and Professor of Painting and Public Art at California State University, Monterey Bay This work is a monument to the Lolas and to the power of their protest it is their message to the world about how to be truly human. This book is not just an act of collecting a documentation of history painfully revealed, but a poetry of personalities with all the textures of intellect, outrage, sadness, anger, resilience and love. Evelina Galang read these stories the Lolas came to me through her words. '.while the book may be a tough one to get through, it's also a necessary one-especially for the healing of these brave women who survived a devastating national trauma.' . Let them knife, split, open you up-and with mercy, let them enter your bodies, so that we may never forget.' -Melissa Sipin, Hyphen magazine Evelina Galang unwaveringly records the full-bodied lives, the heartbreaks, and the resilience of sixteen comfort women from the Philippines during World War II. The stories of the lolas’ survival and their love of living and others bring about the commanding power of who the women are. Their stories are huwes de kutsilyo-justice by knife. Remember their stories.

'In her fourth and most stunning book, Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living With War, M. “An extraordinary book, Lolas’ House will historically endure as a beautifully written record of collective survival and struggle among women against male sexual violence.” -Caroline Norma, coauthor of The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars It is in letting our tears flow and our hearts break that we also share the lolas’ pleas for all wars to end.” -Leny Mendoza Strobel, editor of Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous “ Lolas’ House puts luminous human faces on the dehumanizing wartime statistics of Filipino ‘comfort women,’ whose stories we must allow to enter our bodies.

Lolas' House by M. Evelina Galang