Author: Daphne Bayona

Who keeps Taft alive after midnight?

Lamp posts and starlit skies serve as the backdrop for night-shift workers striving to keep the dark safe.

Writer’s Recap: Gaza’s fractured voices reach DLSU in ‘Stories of Displacement: Palestine & Beyond’

Various voices and experts forged solidarity at a dialogue hosted by the Palestinian Collective, bridging the Filipino and Palestinian experiences of war and conflict.

Logged in, burned out: Inside the student freelance grind

Student freelancers juggle gigs and grades in today’s demanding digital economy, navigating burnout, financial pressure, and the pursuit of passion.

Writer’s Recap: Celebrating creative Lasallian excellence at ‘LITAW-VISAW 2025’

Malate Literary Folio’s “LITAW-VISAW 2025” adds fuel to the everlasting flame of Lasallian excellence in creativity.

Intimacy coordinating: The art of consensual creativity and sensitive sensuality

Intimacy coordinators handle on-screen sultriness with gentleness, as what the eyes see might go beyond what the mind is prepared for.

The enduring condolences for Filipino-Palestinian refugees

As Fllipino-Palestinian families from Gaza adjust to life in the Philippines, the memory of their war-torn lands continues to torment them.

Musikangbayan is music by the people, for the people

Musikangbayan frontman Danny Fabella writes songs of love, community, and resistance dedicated to the Filipino people.

Larger than life: Filipino drag kings challenge the mainstream

Not a lot of people know of the drag kings in the country, but these artists are fascinating to watch as they challenge the gender binary.

Molded to perfection: The art of food models

There is much passion and precision that goes into the act of creating eye-catching pieces—more so if it involves catching one’s appetite, such as in fake food art.

Grit and glamor: Reimagining masculinity through male pageantry

Male pageantry redefines traditional masculinity by celebrating all physicalities of the male nature. In doing this, the notion of toxic masculinity is unraveled and destroyed.