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Phosphorescent Mat(t)er
do you think her light is borrowed—something siphoned from the sun before dusk swallows the walls? (look closer. stay longer. watch carefully.) She is no candle trembling at the mercy…
To all the Sunshines
A vast world of constricted options—this was the gripping reality that faced Sunshine Francisco (Maris Racal) when her promising Olympic future hung in the balance due to an unplanned pregnancy…
The [UN]safe space
There is a specific kind of discomfort that comes from watching someone in power say something they shouldn’t, and then watching everyone around them decide whether or not to pretend…
Making Herstory: Can’t Drag Me Down
It would have been a normal Thursday morning. The usual humdrum on the grounds of De La Salle University – Dasmariñas (DLSU-D): students drifting from class to class, voices overlapping…
Labored Breath
Morning smoke billows through cracks of broken windows, and the air tastes of iron—like rusty old coins on the tongue. Even the wind tires of threading through the same narrow…
Everyone’s An Actor: The Performative Fe/Male Phenomenon
Performative behaviors are far more common than we realize. In fact, we have witnessed versions of them our entire lives. It’s the friend who pretends to love things they don’t…
Periodic Tirades
I was on my second set of lateral pull-ups when I heard an idiot say to another idiot: “I was having intercourse with my girlfriend when she started her period.…
The Price of Impunity
The rise of Rodrigo Duterte in 2016 marked a dark shift—his so-called War on Drugs unleashed a brutal, government-backed force without precedent. Sold as a quick fix to crime and…
Futureproof (and other lies we tell ourselves)
Remember those classroom exercises where teachers asked where you’d see yourself in ten, fifteen years? You’d write it down dutifully: a successful professional, an apartment of your own, maybe a…
[sub]Standard Operating Procedures
A day in my life as the head of Heraldo Filipino’s operations side may sound simple because I rarely produce written or visual content—but wait until you hear about the…