Pagkatapos ng Tigkiriwi (After the Dead Season) is a documentary directed by Danielle Madrid that chronicles the agrarian situation of three farming communities in Negros Occidental. It starts with the accounts of farmers from Hacienda Carmelo whose rightful sugarcane fields are being privately converted into a memorial park. …

“Art is now utilized to signify intellectual and financial superiority — a deviation from its real purpose as a branch of the humanities which is to be of depth, to be oriented in reality and not profit, and to be a tool that captures even the ugliest human element.” Art…

“Papanam?” My family would ask whenever I exited our home wearing a pink shirt. In total, I wore the same shirt five times: once in Manila, Pasig, Pasay, Baguio, and Makati. I knew as a national democratic activist that the ills of our society do not end within the dictates…

Growing up, I always envisioned myself wearing a doctor’s coat. Whenever I was asked about my plans for the future, I had one answer: to become a medical technologist. This drove me to enroll under the Health Allied strand in UST SHS. Then came the arbitrary passage of the Anti-Terrorism…

“Sino nang bibili ng gatas ko?” Out of all the things a six-year-old could think about after learning about his father’s passing, it was milk. Not how he was one death away from being orphaned, or other emotionally-driven thoughts a normal child would foster in this situation. In a single…

Personally, despite being seen as a beacon of equity and inclusivity, these LGBTQ-centric government projects and outputs are surface-level at most. …

The Economy, Geography, and Demography of Vaccine Rollout Vaccine nationalism, or the “nation first” procurement of vaccines before their availability through bilateral deals with pharmaceutical companies, is one of the many negative repercussions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic (Khan, 2021). According to the Duke Global Health Innovation Center (2020), as early as May of last year, high-income…

No longer is the word “educated” a term exclusive to those who attain diplomas inside the four corners of the classroom, but a term inclusive to those who possess the consciousness to see, assess, and analyze the social ills existing outside such corners — social ills that our oppressors desperately…

“There may be distinctions and promises of change among some presidentiables, but looking at the trend of past presidents whose class interests were for the ‘landowning, commercial, and industrial oligarchy,’ their distinctions are symptoms of factionalism among the same breed of ruling oppressors…” Similar to our democratic and republican statehood…