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Are we ladies protesting too much?  The intention was good, but is it fair to damn the Angono police as leading women to somewhere...

Science and the supernatural: Filipino folklore through a scientific lens

Even with the rise of science and technology, Filipino folklore is still passed on from generation to generation – including stories of creatures and...

May divorce be with you

  So who doesn’t want divorce?  Happily married couples, that’s who.  They and religious zealots, but can anyone come up with a good reason why...

Woman on the verge of a Twitter breakdown by Marie Yuvienco

To those who think that they have heard the last of Kris Aquino now that her brother is no longer President, they can now...

Go, girl

Apparently, Melania did not get along with one of her husband’s hires, a woman named Mira Ricardel, a deputy national security adviser who is a top aide of John Bolton, the head of the National Security Council. The Office of the First Lady...

The pajama games

I think, if President Duterte’s attendance at international summits is to be guaranteed, whoever is hosting should consider holding sleepovers instead of boring old meetings.  Meetings are boring—only grown-ups go to them to do, ugh, Business. A pajama party, now, that’s a different...

British author in Manila: A conversation in Solidaridad

  James Hamilton-Paterson, if National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose’s word is to be taken as it is meant, is one of the few non-Filipino authors who has written about the Philippines with a very level view of our people and this archipelago...

Fighting Maroons outlasts Soaring Falcons for championship date with Blue Eagles

The last time the University of the Philippines fought for the UAAP (University Athletic Association of the Philippines) basketball crown, I was a sophomore in UP’s Diliman campus. That was in 1986. A long 32 years later, on Nov. 28, 2018, UP once again...

The sisterhood of the childbearing scrubs

Are women doing it for themselves or are they doing it to themselves? Nothing sets a movement back like heresy among its members, so when women themselves act contrary to what feminism considers in the best interest of other women, there is a jarring...

From the outside looking in… Trump and the U.S. midterms: My dire point of view

The bitter fight contest over the U.S. midterm polls has ended with the Democratic Party regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Republican Party cementing their hold in the U.S. Senate. The result can be seen as a concrete victory for...

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