Mindsets, not miniskirts
Some debates fade away with time. Others keep coming back, like a stain that refuses to leave a white shirt. The debate about how women dress belongs ...
Herman M. LagonMarch 11, 20263 min
IMPULSES
Some debates fade away with time. Others keep coming back, like a stain that refuses to leave a white shirt. The debate about how women dress belongs ...
You do not need to live in Tehran, Tel Aviv, Caracas, or Washington to feel a war. Sometimes it reaches you while you are standing at a gasoline stati...
March had barely begun, purple ribbons had barely been pinned, and the country had barely warmed up to Women’s Month when Congress handed us one of th...
Imagine trying to explain Spotify, Wi-Fi, and ChatGPT to someone from 1925. Back then, life was mostly rooted in the land, lit by kerosene, and shaped...
Language may shape thought, but the way we joke, hint, or sidestep often says more. In our classrooms, where teachers balance modules and quiet pushba...
They slip into our speech like old jokes or fresh tsismis. You hear them everywhere — kids on swings, sari-sari store chika, even in a politician’s pu...
It rarely begins with noise. First, the cashier lane disappears. Then, your banking app starts doing what tellers used to. Before you can even ask wha...
Not all fashion lives on runways. Some of it breathes in places like Mary Mart Mall in Iloilo—where survival meets style, and heart beats louder than ...
There is a certain awkwardness you cannot quite shake off when you are in a graduate classroom and have nothing to say. I learned this the hard way. M...