In Feminism
‘Pretty for a morena girl’ is not the compliment you think it is
It's saying: "You’re pretty, even if you’ve got a feature that’s not supposed to make you pretty."
In Feminism
Why ‘free size’ made me hate my body
Learning to be gentle with myself was not an easy thing to do
In Pop Culture
How ‘Barbie’ allowed us to break from the ‘not like other girls’ mindset and unashamedly love pink and ultra-femininity again
Despite being marketed Barbie dolls, we were all told to denounce anything feminine out of fear of being deemed too girly—when we were girls. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” shifts this mindset.
In Women
Eldest daughters of Asian households—okay pa ba tayo?
In Filipino and other Asian households, the panganay labor swells almost tenfold for the eldest daughter, and she is often tasked with keeping the entire household intact—even when we didn’t know what we were giving up at the time
In Feminism
Dear internet: You are not entitled to my body
Women on the internet have to endure so much just to exist on it
In Feminism
In defense of the girls who grew up to be booby
Women are made to chalk up mourning our bodies, the physical changes we go through, and the words and actions flung at us ridiculing that change to superficiality