Author: Evan Tan
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Kung Paano Ako Napag-Isip ng Kapangyarihan ng Privilege.
Previously, I discussed my thoughts on power in a post years back. I mulled over this again while watching “Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady”, currently being staged at Onstage in Greenbelt 1. “Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady”, on its rerun at Onstage Greenbelt until July 26. The story revolves around Fuerza Filipinas–a group…
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Are You Gay for Pay? (Or, How Brands & Businesses Can Sincerely Stand Up for the LGBT Community)
A version of this article appeared in 2.O Magazine‘s May 2015 issue. Discreetly, the campaign came up on my news feed. I don’t remember who posted the Stylebible.ph article. A friend who works for the online magazine, maybe–but I can’t find it on their timeline, so I’m not so sure now. I was fleetingly scanning…
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“Within me, an invincible summer.”
Passion. Sometimes, it clouds your vision. A maniacal drive possesses you, and you do the shittiest things. You obsess over something so wrong, but you’re so into it you refuse to listen to reason. You become so involved in something it feels like you’re diving into the ocean blindly, swimming deeper and deeper until you’re…
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Maybe We Don’t Need to Paint their Hands Back.
Maybe it should remain there to remind us that no power on Earth should tell us that our love is less. Maybe it should remain there, so that all of us who love will finally stand up and show the world that we will no longer be afraid to hold the hands of the one…
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Multifaceted
Recently over dinner (North Park‘s steamed tofu with black vinegar and chili sauce — one of their delicious vegan-friendly options I should note, in case you wanted to know the details), someone told me how I was holding myself back. Perhaps too quickly, I disagreed and said that I only try to come from a place…
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What Is Essential
Taken from ZenPencils.com Midway between packing my two large bags with clothes as I prepared to move out of my old condo, I suddenly had to pause as a phrase kept repeating itself in my head: the stripping away of the inessential. I knew it was something from childhood because it made me remember those…
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The Brave and the Free
Over dinner on our second night in Hanoi, my friend Biboy shared to us how he up and left Manila for Vietnam. He was backpacking a year ago when he decided to throw all caution to the wind and just move to the country. To survive, he became an English teacher and earned a measly…
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The Madness in the Method
“Pale Blue Dot”, photo taken by the Voyager 1 spaceprobe “You’re too cautious,” she wrote, except the last two words had been crossed out. “You’re not taking any risks, which is the formula to boring yourself to inertia.”
A Writer from Manila 