The other half we refuse to hear
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...
Noel Galon de LeonMarch 30, 20266 min
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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...
There is no single formula for writing a great poem, and John Iremil E. Teodoro proves this in his collection Buang sa Pag-ibig, published by the Univ...
February is always astonishing to me because it arrives with such promise and leaves almost without warning, and this year it felt even more short-liv...
The meeting had just ended, yet the words spoken during that consultation with Room to Read continued to reverberate in my mind long after we logged o...