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AJ Dela Cruz
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Jan 20

Pre-colonial Philippines as a Civilization: Decolonizing Colonial Historical Narratives

Many believed that the history of the Philippines started during the arrival of Spanish colonizers. The existence of material evidence supporting the country’s subjugation under Spanish rule — such as the chronicles of Antonio Pigafetta, the very dominance of the Catholic faith in the present day, and other similar sources…

History

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Pre-colonial Philippines as a Civilization: Decolonizing Colonial Historical Narratives
Pre-colonial Philippines as a Civilization: Decolonizing Colonial Historical Narratives
History

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Dec 22, 2022

Walang Diyos Ang Lupa: On Danielle Madrid’s Pagkatapos ng Tigkiriwi

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. …

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Sep 26, 2022

From Apartments to Streets: Deconstructing Yasmina Reza’s Art

“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…

Art

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From Apartments to Streets: Deconstructing Yasmina Reza’s Art
From Apartments to Streets: Deconstructing Yasmina Reza’s Art
Art

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Sep 11, 2022

The anatomy of “respect my opinion”

“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…

2022 Philippine Elections

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The anatomy of “respect my opinion”
The anatomy of “respect my opinion”
2022 Philippine Elections

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Aug 16, 2022

tl;dr: junk neolib educ!

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…

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tl;dr: junk neolib educ!
tl;dr: junk neolib educ!

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Apr 25, 2022

On Milk and Sociological Imagination

“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…

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The Sociological Imagination of Milk
The Sociological Imagination of Milk

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Feb 13, 2022

An Assessment of Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso’s Mayoralty using the United Nations (UN) Criteria For Good Governance

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

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An Assessment of Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso’s Mayoralty using the United Nations (UN)…
An Assessment of Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso’s Mayoralty using the United Nations (UN)…

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Feb 13, 2022

On the Correlation of the Different Social Sciences on “Vaccine Rollout” and “Education for Development”

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…

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On the Correlation of the Different Social Sciences on “Vaccine Rollout” and “Education for…
On the Correlation of the Different Social Sciences on “Vaccine Rollout” and “Education for…

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Feb 10, 2022

Alexa, Play “Pamantasan ng Puso” by Gary Granada: Are We Filipinos Educated?

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…

Philippine Education

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Alexa, Play “Pamantasan ng Puso” by Gary Granada: Are We Filipinos Educated?
Alexa, Play “Pamantasan ng Puso” by Gary Granada: Are We Filipinos Educated?
Philippine Education

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Feb 8, 2022

Beyond the Dictates of the Ballots: What to Expect Post-Elections

“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…

Elections

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Beyond the Dictates of the Ballots: What to Expect Post-Elections
Beyond the Dictates of the Ballots: What to Expect Post-Elections
Elections

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