The Rights-based Approach to CHED’s Proposed Reframed General Education Curriculum

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Are our college students overloaded with GE subjects? Perhaps. Should there be improvements in pedagogy and teaching quality? Definitely. Still, there is something profoundly limiting in the proposition that higher education must mainly serve as a training ground for job-ready adults.

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Analyses, Commentary Mat P. Garcia Analyses, Commentary Mat P. Garcia

Toboso 19: When the Questions Tell the Story (Part 2)

A common refrain that emerged after it was known that civilians were killed in the Toboso operation was “Why were these civilians there?” Setting aside the fault-finding, and, yes, victim-blaming timbre of this question, it is important to consider that the events surrounding the killings of the Toboso 19 reach back to, and at the same time instantiate, the grim realities of Negros Island as a hotbed of violence.

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Stories Leanne Bellen Stories Leanne Bellen

An Ode to my Mother, to the Manananggal, and to Womanhood

What does it mean to write an ode to a mother who is both familiar and unknowable? In this tender essay, Leanne braids memory, folklore, and lived experience to trace the fractures and continuities of womanhood. From the myth of the manananggal to the quiet violences women endure, she reflects on her mother’s sacrifices, the cost of survival, and the selves women are forced to leave behind. At once intimate and political, this piece invites us to imagine a world where women are not made monstrous, but are finally seen, protected, and whole.

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