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We must remember to remember: that remembrance is resistance.

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We’ve forsaken the emotional power of the human voice at our own peril.

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When did we stop using earphones in public?

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On bad takes, loud voices, and knowing when to shut up.

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How a folk song inspired a boy to eventually become a poet.
Growing up, I eavesdropped on the conversations of married women. My mother had a shop in the public market where she sold dry goods. In the afternoon, women gathered. They sat on the bangko in the storefront, their number increasing as the ...
How we imagine ourselves in history could be the key to changing our future.
When the English explorer William Dampier sailed into the remote, storm-battered islands of the northern Philippines in August 1687, he marveled at the emerald-green hills and steep cliffs that rose from the ocean. After a long voyage at sea, he ...
If you find yourself always being the one sending your friend group messages like, “Uy kita naman tayo!” or “Kelan kayo free?” you might be a perpetual initiator.
In friend groups, people often settle into roles. There's the comedian always cracking jokes, a mother hen always taking care of everybody else, the gossiper always dishing out the latest chismis about other people, the silent type who rarely ever comments ...
Have relationships always been so transactional?
Love has long been subsumed by capitalism. From the age of dowries, to the age of blockbuster rom-coms, to the conflict-riddled diamond trade, and the multi-billion dollar wedding industry-the commodification of relationships, particularly marriage, is so prevalent that ...
Are you an Eighties-Man, a Nineties-Man, or an Aughts-Man? When did you first realize you weren't cool anymore?
There's a cruel joke the universe plays on us, somewhere around our 40s or 50s, and it goes like this: We wake up one day and realize the youth no longer care about us. Worse still: they have a point. We ...
It's one TIL after another.
Unless you really loved history as a child, the subject is just something you have to sludge through to make it through primary school. But it's different when you read up on it in adulthood when the fragmented stories we know ...
Spare a thought for those whose fathers are no longer with us.
There's a movie from the 2000s that not a lot of people have seen called Frequency. It stars Dennis Quaid as a fire fighter and family man, and Jim Caviezel, who plays his son. The action happens in two different timelines- ...
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