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Shaking up safe, silent, steady 23
Mid-early twenties. There is nothing obviously special about turning 23-- except, maybe, for the fact that it is safe. I guess I...
Who keeps the Solid North solid?
The Solid North still appears solid in November 2019, 3 years after the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was buried at the Libingan ng mg...
Reconstructing memories of Apo Lakay
Whether the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos is a hero or not still remains polarizing 3 years after he was buried at the Libingan ng mga...
Disillusionment
I entered the adult world with wide-eyed idealism of the growth that was ahead of me. I was going to make a name for myself. I was going...
Woke on Twitter
These days, many of my students say they enroll in Sociology because they want to be “woke”; in today’s internet language, that means...
Liberating and constraining the ‘bakla’
Labels and templates are constraining — even in the context of gay rights. In the Philippines, if you look around and try to spot people...
Why academic achievements are not enough
Let me start by stressing what any observant person out there already knows: academic achievements do not equate wisdom. In order to...
About Francisca and Felicitacion, in Loving Memory
I need to come to terms with the fact that my grandmothers will never be spoken the way conventionally successful women are spoken of....
The Noble Green Primitive: Fantastic and Problematic
My dream world is a world seen in fairy-tale movies. In it there would be trees of different sizes, dashing waterfalls, clear rivers,...
Criminalization is not what we owe our children
When I was 9 years old, I was about to finish 4th grade but had to fight my way through bureaucratic and social judgments just to make...
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