Noelle Mejia, Author at Tinig ng Plaridel

8 min

“How do we stay at home?”: Demolitions continue to hammer urban poor amid pandemic

Posted on 15 April 20214 February 2022
byNoelle Mejia

As thousands of Filipinos are forced to live in uncertainty with the COVID-19 pandemic still in full swing, families in urban poor communities continue to lose their homes from demolitions and forced evictions.

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6 min

A Gendered Pandemic Recoil: Women face a tougher “new normal”

Posted on 17 March 20214 February 2022
byJulienne Maxine Espinosa and Noelle Mejia

For the longest time, women are compelled to face the most biased wars. Beyond statistical reports of rising COVID-19 cases and mortality rates, it would seem that numbers do not capture the true suffering people have to endure.

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6 min

This Time Last Year: Looking back at UP’s distant memories

Posted on 17 March 20215 February 2022
byGuinevere Latoza, Ivy Ferrer and Noelle Mejia

Just weeks before jargons of ‘community quarantine’, ‘social distancing‘ and ‘flattening the curve’ became prevalent worldwide, the University of the Philippines was vibrant and in full force from academics to…