Our Sexuality is Not a Joke
Allow me to say this: our sexuality is not a joke. There is something fundamentally wrong with how LGBT and women are portrayed and treated in pop culture. In the … Continue reading Our Sexuality is Not a Joke
Category: Human Rights
Stories about human rights and the fight to protect them.
When public transport is an injustice
If anything can be said about the country’s state of public transport, it’s that it needs a lot of repair, literally and figuratively. Take our buses for example. Anyone who … Continue reading When public transport is an injustice
We deserve better
I commute every day. I have taken every possible mode of transportation there is in the city—bus, van, FX, train, tricycle, pedicab, name it. Like every other Filipino commuter, I … Continue reading We deserve better
The Pride in Pugad Baboy
Pol Medina’s resignation from the Philippine Daily Inquirer has once again highlighted freedom of speech and gender. How much freedom is there in freedom? Where does it begin and where … Continue reading The Pride in Pugad Baboy
The problem with social media
There is no doubt that digital media, mostly the Internet, has become a very important and influential tool, especially in advocacies, campaigns, and social reforms. From the Internet sprung the … Continue reading The problem with social media
Let us be vigilant against cyber martial law
Four decades have passed since then President Ferdinand Marcos placed the Philippines under martial law. Throughout the regime, thousands of Filipinos lost their lives fighting for freedom. Many others, though … Continue reading Let us be vigilant against cyber martial law
Since I was this small, I have been taught that homosexuality is evil and that homosexuals are committing a grave sin and will go straight to hell. I don’t know … Continue reading
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