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I’d Do Anything for Love—but I Won’t Do That (for Free)
A version of this is available on 2nd Opinion’s website. Sometime in July, I was invited by Ana Santos and Nikka Sarthou-Lainez, founders of Writer’s Block Philippines, for the organization’s annual workshop, “Jumpstart Your Freelance Writing Career”. During that Saturday afternoon at Fully Booked in Bonifacio High Street while facing the large group of aspiring,…
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The Sea, Who Loved the Boy
For Gretchen–and to us, the many other Seas The Boy was with the Sea all his life. The Sea loved the Boy and cared for him—his flowing hair the Sea would crown with shells and pearls and little corals. Every afternoon the Boy would swim to the surface and look at the sky, his back…
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The Audacity of Creative Fraud
Flattered? Not even. HF Yambao’s short film, ripped off from my script. I was mindlessly scanning my Facebook news feed yesterday when this short film by filmmaker HF Yambao (an apprentice of director Brillante Mendoza) flipped my stupor into rage. The short film, uploaded on online video platform Viddsee, was an unabashed ripoff of the script…
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Bravely, to be an Alfie
When we were children – my brother, cousins, and I, my dad used to drive us around Admiral Village in Las Piñas during the weekends, we at the back of the Mazda pickup truck, sticking our heads out of the camper shell window. Our neighborhood was pretty small: we moved in a then-new housing development in the…
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More Carrots, Not Sticks: Fighting HIV with Empathy, Not Fear
A screenshot of Miyako Izabel’s Facebook post “Bakit ba ang anti-HIV campaign sa Pilipinas ay puro pagpapa-cute?” On July 10, 2015, a woman named Miyako Izabel dropped the bomb. The public Facebook post was a lengthy and impassioned caption to a photo from a 2004 campaign by French organization AIDES.ORG. Shown in…
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For the Greater Good.
WHAT KIND OF PROFESSOR DOES THIS pic.twitter.com/ACtQ0FCwRm — shahanye (@shaunhin) July 1, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Recently, someone tweeted about this perplexing challenge a University of Maryland professor put his students in, which revealed how people would turn a blind eye on the effects of their decisions, just so they could selfishly advance themselves. To get extra…
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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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