My mother is from Guimaras, although they used to have a house in Villa Arevalo. Still, every summer of my childhood seemed to lead me back not to Vil...
I chose not to drive today because I wanted to place myself, deliberately and without insulation, inside the everyday reality that most people cannot ...
I used to be uncomfortable with beauty pageants. They often felt like empty spectacles that reinforced shallow standards rather than meaningful dialog...
At the beginning of this year, I made a deliberate promise to myself to pay closer attention to local stage productions in Iloilo, not merely as enter...
One afternoon inside a mall in Iloilo, I first heard the word “geng-geng.” It was casually tossed into a conversation among friends as we watched a gr...
In the Philippines, we often celebrate how “open” society has become toward the LGBTQ+ community, yet this openness is sometimes only surface-level. B...
On Monday, March 23, 2026, in celebration of National Women’s Month, Det Neri, the author of the well-known book “Ang Ikaklit sa Aming Hardin,” is cur...
We urgently need films of this kind, works that confront us with the shameless brutality of American colonial rule. Films like Sisa (2025, June Robles...
When I first heard about the idea of a third space, I did not even know it had a name. I just knew there were places outside my home where I felt calm...