A thousand peso fallacy: The worth of human rights
By Beatriz Zamora On the fifth of September, a gray sky stood witness to a boy’s funeral. In Aliw Cemetery in Pateros, people lit candles in memory of 19-year-old Carl…
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Honoring defiance against insidious sociopolitical ailments
Photo by Jerome Edward Ignacio Text by John Patrick Manio This year, Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (DUP) opens the 26th Theatre Season of UP Playwrights’ Theatre (UPPT) – dubbed Honoring…
The burden of memory
By Jo Comuyog The year 1977 was no year for criticizing the government what with the nation blanketed by a quiet and fear-stricken political climate. Everyone knew that speaking out…
Alab ng panawagan: Ang pagsalubong ng UP sa Lakbayan ng Pambansang Minorya 2017
Photo by Keith Magcaling Text by Andrea Jobelle Adan and Jemelle De Leon Kasabay ng paglubog ng araw ang pag-angat ng libo-libong mga kamao, paglakas ng mga panawagan at paglagablab…
From the ground up
Photo and text by Agatha Gregorio and Yumi Paras This story begins, as most stories do, with a hero. Not one who can walk out of burning buildings unscathed; not…
Truth in the age of disbelief
Photo by Luisa Morales Text by Paula Angeline Calayan “There were years when people lived in fear of the knock on the door in the night, which often ended with…
Muling Pagkabuhay: Pagpinta sa minorya ng Patay na si Hesus
By Andrea Jobelle Adan Marami na ang naibansag sa Patay Na Si Hesus: sabi ng ilan, ito’y comedy film, o kaya nama’y isang pampamilyang labas; sabi ng maraming tanging poster…
The myth of light without darkness
By Meeko Angela Camba The world is not simply split between good and evil. There in the vast in-between are intricate points of intersection, neither black nor white, truth nor…
Sansinukob: Unveiling a universe as told by Philippine folklore
By Bronte Lacsamana Gracing the spaces between the tall trees and leaf-strewn paths of University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman are six otherworldly beings, sharing folk tales about the birth…
Portraying poverty and patriarchy: the triumph and downfall of VKJ
Text and art by Andrea Jobelle Adan From the beginning, “Vince & Kath & James” (VKJ) has been hard-pressed to defend its place among the inventive, the progressive, the worthy.…
Love’s labors won: The frontier of Philippine fantasy
By Ratziel San Juan “I know you wanted mayhem, war, chaos… Isn’t that what love is all about?” Every last frame was a labor of love. Each scene contained gags and…
Beyond mobile screens: Youth brings protests to the streets
by Jeuel Barroso and Bronte Lacsamana Today’s unrelenting youth did not stop at the protests and mobilizations which occurred on Katipunan Avenue, Nov. 18—the same day the nation woke up…