HomeTagsAlma Anonas-Carpio

Alma Anonas-Carpio

Serious leaks: When getting and sharing pornos is criminal

The right to privacy is considered sacred. It is what allows people to sleep at night and feel secure in their communities, in their...

Pinay in power: The new Babaylan

Before the Philippines gained its name as a nation, and before the centuries of colonization, females wielded as much—if not more—power in the communities...

Putting people first: Bulacan’s Daniel Fernando

The sun was past its zenith, ready to cast the erstwhile capital of the First Philippine Republic in the soft glow of the photographer’s...

Press freedom: Yes, it matters

A free and independent press is one of the benchmarks used to measure the strength of a country’s democracy, and the level of its...

Portrait of the journalist as poet

To the uninitiated, poetry and journalism appear to be opposite ends of a very wide spectrum. In reality, this is not so. Poetry is...

By the scanning of your thumbs: Election tech

  If the Commission on Elections (Comelec) had everything it wanted for a fully automated election system, the biometrics it collected from registered voters...

Dahil ba

Dahil ba ako'y bata Ikaw ay walang awa? Kung manlaban mahina, Murang-mura ang diwa.   Dahil ba di mo kaya Yaong mas matatanda, Sa akin ibalandra Ang 'di magawa-gawa.   Dahil nga ako'y bata, Naiisip...

Haunting your feels: Celestine Trinidad’s ‘Ghost of a Feeling’

One would think suicide and a doctor’s crisis of confidence in herself to be heavy topics, perhaps too heavy for a romance novel. One...

Stories from our myths

As a child, I cut classes to go marinate in the library. There I got to delve into ancient cultures and the stories and...

Weaving spirit into poetry: Merlie Alunan’s ‘Running With Ghosts’

“I am about to sit down on the bench under the papaya tree when the shaking begins. It lasts for what seems like the...