A collection of essays curated with the intentions of informing the public about ongoing social issues around the world. Written in multiple perspectives, it was created by the people, for the people.
Amini, Leni, and Milk Tea: Student Activism Around the World
The essay explores the strengths and weaknesses of student-led movements around the world. It compares the examples of the recent protests in Iran, the volunteerism during the campaign of Leni Robredo, and the Milk Tea Alliance in Asia.
A Danger to Democracy: The High-Volume, Highly-Effective Presence of Political Propaganda in the Philippines
The essay aims to bring awareness to the proliferation of false information concerning Philippine politics. It talks about some of the methods used by propagandists to deceive everyday people into believing falsehoods, and it stresses the importance of combating propaganda with the interest of instigating change throughout the nation.
Just A Click: The Impacts of Social Media in Today’s Age
The essay talks about the pros and cons of using the internet, especially when it comes to spreading information regarding the issues surrounding the country. For example, a con would be how easy fake news can be spread through social media; but, a pro would be how someone could ask for help or donations during times of crisis and may be able to spread awareness of the situation they are experiencing through social media.
A Time for Filipinos to Practice Critical-Thinking
The essay discusses the SIM Card Registration Act and the effects the implementation of such would bring. It delves deeper into the topic at hand, providing multiple insights and testimonies about its pros and cons.
Mental Health Awareness: The Path to Solidarity
The essay showcases how people can utilize being familiar with mental health and its nature as a way of being a more engaged citizen. Through their knowledge of mental health, they will be able to sympathize and figure out effective ways in which they can help others who are facing struggles mentally.
Who is Responsible?: Looking at Poverty Through Different Perspectives
The essay explores the Philippines’ current poverty situation and how it can be viewed through different lenses. It discusses the possible causes and solutions as well as who has the responsibility to find an answer to this pressing issue that has been plaguing the country.
The Inhumanity of Dehumanizing People in Poverty
The essay explains how society treats people in poverty as less than human. It discusses the experiences of marginalized people in economic, political, and social contexts.
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program: The Philippines’ Prototype for Poverty Reduction
The essay talks about the 4P program, which was enforced by the DSWD. It delves further into the conditional cash grants that this program provides to lower income households, as well as the benefits that come with it.
More than a Woman: How Transfemininity is Represented in Japanese Media
As March is Women's Month, I want to highlight the very undermined and often looked down upon members of our community, that being trans women. As someone who dabbles into japanese media frequently, I want to talk about the good and the bad ways transfems are represented, how anime and the culture behind the community has affected transfems in real life, and how it may impact how people view trans women in the future.
Behind Closed Doors: The Shift to Covert Homophobia
Over time, homophobia has become less and less popular. However, instead of being eradicated, it has evolved into more subtle forms of discrimination that are perhaps even more insidious. This essay examines the societal shift from overt to internalized homophobia and how it has impacted the vulnerable members of the LGBTQ community.
The Changing Tides of Migration: A History of Chinese-Filipinos
Filipino culture today has foot tracks of Chinese culture all throughout it, so much so that the lines that differentiate Chinese and Filipino culture are blurred, and entire subcultures somewhere between the two exist. This piece illustrates the long and complicated history of Chinese-Filipinos through stories of migration, testimonies of cultural change, and the four Taoist dragon kings, each of which represent the different time periods in which Chinese immigrants assimilated and thrived.
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