The degrees between you and your outfit
Clothing is often treated as a matter of style, but in the Philippine heat, fabric, fit, and color affect one’s comfort, body temperature, and safety.
Our X, X, and maybe Ys
Biology narrates more than just two stories involving X and Y, calling for a closer look at how we understand sex and the systems built around it.
Treatise: Looking for green in the big city
As trees are sacrificed for development, Metro Manila grows hotter, harsher, and increasingly harmful to public well-being.
Whisking through the clumps of the matcha craze
Amid the boom of trendy Asian flavors, the humble and resolute matcha may have something to teach its counterparts.
No woman left behind: TogetHER For Health’s mission to end cervical cancer
As the fight against cancer continues, cervical cancer is among the few preventable and highly curable cancers, yet it continues to claim the lives of Filipino women. Despite ongoing advances in vaccination, screening, and other treatment methods, there are still women who are unable to access healthcare services that could save their lives. In observance […]
Invisible invincibility: The cost of being a woman in pain
Women’s healthcare ceases to progress under the confines of a patriarchal system rooted in the dismissal and capitalization of women’s pain.
Is this normal? Beyond the 28-day cycle on period-tracking apps
While period-tracking apps promise seamless menstrual cycle monitoring, their convenience hinges on a 28-day norm and masks glaring privacy pitfalls.
This land is her land (and she’s not leaving)
Beneath the “green transition,” women face disproportionate challenges and risks—yet they remain at the forefront of resistance and reclamation.
Treatise: Bug appétit!
We live in a curious era where someone will happily pay thousands for a sea-floor scavenger drenched in butter, yet recoil in horror at the sight of crickets fried to perfection. It is the ultimate triumph of branding over biology—a victory of palate over reason that comes at a far greater cost than any flavor […]
Exhausted on arrival: The hidden mental cost of commuting
The ordinary Filipino loses hours to traffic daily—time that could have been spent instead on personal endeavors and rest.