CHAPTER 1 • APRIL 2027
Islas de los Pintados
When the Spanish reached the Visayas in 1521, they named the islands for the ink on the people who met them. Our first chapter begins there.
See where your name goes
THE COVER UNFOLDED
FRONT COVER
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About Each Chapter
Twice a year, DIWA publishes a chapter: a collectible print edition, made to keep on the shelf, not scroll past.
Every chapter follows the same arc, from where we came from, to who we are now, to where we go next. Chapter I is the first, and every chapter after it will follow its lead.
INSIDE CHAPTER I
What the ink meant then, and who wears it now
WHERE WE CAME FROM
WHO WE ARE NOW
WHERE WE’RE GOING NEXT
Your Name, in the First Chapter
At the close of Chapter I, after the stories and the editorial, is a page for the people who made it possible. Every Founding Member is printed there by name. It's printed once, in the first chapter of DIWA, and it stays there.
IN PRINT
Your name in Chapter I
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ON YOUR CARD
The Palay Gold founding mark
Made with Care
Chapter I centers Indigenous Visayan peoples and living tattoo traditions. Every history line is reviewed by a cultural advisor, traditions are shown with the blessing of the communities they belong to, and practitioners are credited by name.
The Road to April
November 30
Deadline to become a Founding Member
February 2027
The fashion editorial, shot on the Oregon coast
March 2027
Chapter I off to print
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Memberships start at $5 a month. Every Founding Member is named in Chapter I.
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