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AMA: Ang Matatag Kong Akbayan

Hindi siya perpekto. Hindi siya yung tipo ng napakaraming imik o palaging nagsasabi ng “mahal kita.” Ngunit sa tuwing hinahagupit ako ng suliranin, naroon siya bilang isang matatag na akbayan. Isang taong hindi ko man hilingin ay palaging dumidinggin.

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When Pride Month Ends, What Remains?

One month. Four weeks. 30 days. 720 hours. 43,200 minutes. 2,592,000 seconds.

But honestly, who’s counting?

Who’s counting the hours left for a community that is both courageously unabashed and fearful beneath the eyes of others? Like a ticking time bomb that will explode the moment June gets flipped to the back of the calendar.

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The Soldier, The Poet, The Queen: The Faces Each Mother Shoulders

Irrefutably tough.

Bearing armor her body could barely carry and an unyielding resolve able to contest even the most arduous men to ever step foot on this planet, she endures the burden of others far more than those she carries herself. Through countless untold battles, suffered blemishes, and abrupt hardships, she stands tall—chin high, pride higher—and fazed she never was.

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