Every October, as World Mental Health Day comes and goes, public discussions are flooded with well-meaning calls to "break the stigma," practice self-care, or seek therapy. While encouraging open conversation…
Disasters in Mindanao are rarely, if ever, pure acts of nature. They unfold across a compound hazard landscape where climate events intersect with armed conflict, clan feuds (rido), and large-scale…
October 5 is International Day of No Prostitution. There is a growing effort to frame commercial sex as merely "sex work"—an economic choice and a matter of labor rights. Proponents…
For Medicine Week of the Philippine Medical Association — Metropolitan Davao Medical Society DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Today, Sept. 20, the medical doctors will have the wreath-laying before the monument of Dr.…
The recent remarks of the central bank governor, criticizing Filipinos for a supposed “consumption culture,” expose the persistence of “matapobre” attitudes and structural classism in Philippine economic governance. By framing…