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Inumagahan: Celebrating the Filipino Simbang Gabi

While the annual nine-day tradition of Simbang Gabi is a collective Filipino practice, the involvement at the personal level differs for one person to the next.

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Third spaces: An anchor of communities

The hustle and bustle of life in the city can often make a person yearn for a place of respite, where one can feel grounded in a community.

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On the microscale: Women lead USG amid widespread misogyny

For the past few years, women leaders have been at the helm of the USG, overcoming gendered notions of effective leadership within the University and in larger society.

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Out of sight, in the mind: The sobering reality of mental health issues

Mental illnesses are conditions that may not seem so apparent to any onlooker—but that does not make the struggle any less valid.

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Past glory: Revisiting Malate’s unapologetically queer spaces

The streets of Malate once brought belongingness to the marginalized LGBTQ+ Community—but this vibrancy has been lost through time.

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Capturing visual truths: Zooming in on Filipina and non-binary photojournalists

The field of photojournalism is rife with systemic injustices against women and non-binary individuals. But times are changing, and they are gradually making spaces for themselves.

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Hear her roar: Challenging the limits of female rage in media

The image of the angry woman is vivid: ferocious eyebrows, a scathing tongue, and eyes ablaze with fire as she vets out whoever has wronged her. Perhaps she’s discovered her husband with a mistress, laying waste to the homewrecker in her bed. That is the familiar woman in local and international media alike. However, this…

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An open secret: Uncovering queer stories from all-girls schools

In many all-girls schools, glass ceilings are typically shattered and stained with the various hues representing one’s social identities. Strict handbook guidelines, indoctrinated curricula, and tumultuous student-to-student dynamics are ever-defining of how one comes about with their comfortability in expressing their truest selves. While these institutions stand separately from how their students choose to identify,…

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The struggling majority: Woes of everyday pedestrians

Our car-centric society is urged, step-by-step, to diverge and move toward more mobile and pedestrian-friendly routes.

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Between trains, on tracks: The trolleys that ply the PNR

Although operating a trolley may be dangerous to both operator and commuter, this improvised transportation fills the inefficiency gaps in the current system.