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Trans women aren’t pretending and they don’t owe anyone disclosure

Posted on July 11, 2020July 16, 2020
Amrie Cruz

Content warning: This story discusses transphobia and accounts of anti-transgender violence and murder Have you been on Omegle lately? Personally, I haven’t used the online chat website since high school.…

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5 min

On #HijaAko and her triggers—a conversation with a sexual abuse survivor

Posted on July 10, 2020July 15, 2020
Nadine Halili

Trigger warning: rape, sexual abuse If you’re a sexual abuse survivor, it can be difficult to not be retraumatized by the content you see online. You could be simply scrolling…

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13 min

Queer safe spaces in a post-pandemic world—what’s that going to look like?

Posted on June 28, 2020July 13, 2020
Catherine Orda

Around this time last year, we were marching. Though the verb isn’t quite accurate—it was pouring, the traffic was impossible, we were shoe-deep in muddied grass and bits of soft,…

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18 min

Love is the place I call home

Posted on June 27, 2020July 15, 2020
Amrie Cruz

Whenever I hear Diana Ross singing “I’m coming out. I want the world to know. Got to let it show,” I feel giddy and overwhelmed. I ask myself, “Is this…

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7 min

Mental health is political for this young Filipina and her global youth network

Posted on June 6, 2020June 15, 2020
Amrie Cruz

Mental health became an even bigger topic during quarantine. Distanced from basic needs and sources of comfort, the pandemic gave rise to another public health crisis as we all took…

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5 min

An open letter to the hypocrites on my feed

Posted on June 5, 2020June 15, 2020
Zofiya Acosta

To anyone who has posted anything in support of #BlackLivesMatter but has never extended the same support to victims of extrajudicial killings, has continuously sided with despots and their cronies,…

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9 min

“She was not a phase,” a writer shares about her first love

Posted on June 3, 2020June 15, 2020

It’s five in the morning as of this writing. I have not slept a wink. And because it’s the beginning of Pride Month, I want to make this confession for…

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Don’t give up, join the Anti-Terror Bill email protests

Posted on June 3, 2020June 17, 2020
Zofiya Acosta

Today, Jun. 3, 173 lawmakers from the House of Representatives voted in favor of the Anti-Terror Bill. This means that now the bill only needs to be signed into law…

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Self-portrait: How local artists are coping with the pandemic

Posted on May 7, 2020May 7, 2020
Jacqueline Arias

How has the quarantine affected your motivation to create? If you’re a creative, this question might have crossed your mind. It can be difficult because you’re cooped up at home,…

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Disinformation nation: The ABS-CBN shutdown is a suppression of truth

Posted on May 6, 2020May 9, 2020
Amrie Cruz

The last time that ABS-CBN was shut down, a dictator was ousted. The franchise renewal of ABS-CBN has been a hot topic since The Office of the Solicitor General questioned…

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Editor’s Pick

Trans women aren’t pretending and they don’t owe anyone disclosure

On #HijaAko and her triggers—a conversation with a sexual abuse survivor

Queer safe spaces in a post-pandemic world—what’s that going to look like?

Love is the place I call home

Mental health is political for this young Filipina and her global youth network

An open letter to the hypocrites on my feed

“She was not a phase,” a writer shares about her first love

Don’t give up, join the Anti-Terror Bill email protests

Self-portrait: How local artists are coping with the pandemic

Disinformation nation: The ABS-CBN shutdown is a suppression of truth

Is it just me or is the quarantine making you want to come out too?

Emotional labor during the pandemic and how women are (still) taking the brunt of it

A conversation with Manila, the newest thief in ‘Money Heist’

The not-so-casual cruelty in “We are the virus”

Medical technologists are frontliners, too—here’s why

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