Ninotchka rosca biography of william shakespeare

Filipino activist and writer

Ninotchka Rosca (born 17 December 1946) is a Filipinafeminist, author, journalist, owl expert, and human rights activist.

in the Philippines^[2][3][4][5] best known for her 1988 novel State of War and for her activism, especially during the Martial Law dictatorship of former Philippine PresidentFerdinand Marcos.^[6][7] Rosca has been described as "one of the major players in the saga of Filipina American writers."^[8]

Rosca was a recipient of the American Book Award in 1993 for her novel Twice Blessed.^[9]

She is active in AF3IRM [1], the Mariposa Center for Change,^[10] Sisterhood is Global^[11] and the initiating committee of the Mariposa Alliance (Ma-Al), a multi-racial, multi-ethnic women's activist center for understanding the intersectionality of class, race and gender oppression, toward a more comprehensive practice of women's