FARC: Narco-Terrorists or Marxist Revolutionaries?

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known by its Spanish initials FARC (or the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia), …

Now Trending: Cebu undergrads share Facebook confessions

I wrote this commentary for the Philippine Online Chronicles. In a country whose system of economic production remainspredominantly agrarian, backward, and heavily …

Sex and commodification: Students being auctioned in UP Visayas

I wrote this commentary for the Philippine Online Chronicles at the beginning of the month.[1] Sex has always been intriguing …

Hasa and the Beauty Pageant: A Critique [1]

Beauty pageants traditionally claimed for itself the role of representing the essential Woman and celebrating her intelligence, talent, and most …

The higher education budget: the Aquino regime’s borrowed kettle

Thousands of students, teachers, and school administrators will be holding a nationwide protest action against the Aquino regime’s education budget …

Going Against the Current: Clarifying Some Points on Student Activism

We all too often create our own conception of a thing that is removed from the reality of that object …