Writing by women continues to flourish. They have a feminist stance that questions the centrality of the patriarchy in our lives. The groundbreaking anthologies Forbidden Fruit: Women Write the Erotic edited by Tina Cuyugan and Kung Ibig Mo, love poems edited by Joi Barrios show that a woman's map of dreams and desires is better drawn by a woman writer herself. Gone were the days when female character only came from the imagination — or even fantasy — of male writers.
It is now a language that has been filtered by mass media — printed, seen, broadcast — as well as a language shaped by the internet and social media, by the fragmentation of text language, the world of sound bites, the anime, graphic novels, and cosplays .In 1995, the Philippine Studies journal of Ateneo de Manila University published New Philippine Writing.