DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 March) — The Facebook page of Primum, the official student publication of the University of Mindanao (UM) Main Campus, reactivated on March 14 and opened applications for new writers after weeks of controversy involving alleged
To open Kape Blak’s Elyen Ka is to witness the drafting of a spiritual death certificate. The text does not dramatize a conflict between the human and the industrial; it stages the eerie stillness that comes after the battle is
Growing up in a town that sat squarely between the mountains and the sea, my friends and I spent our nights waiting for something to happen. We sat on the concrete barriers of an unfinished bridge, swinging our legs over
To open Aleah Sulaiman Bantas’s Tademtademan is to consent to a haunting. This is a text made from fractures, a landscape where geography does not cradle the body but hunts it. Thirty kilometers to Kuyapon. Thirty more to Kidapawan. The
I am reading Aswangism and thinking that the monsters we know have evolved. They no longer hide under the bed or wait in the balete tree, but have moved into the subdivision, taken jobs, and succumbed to the same wet,
“The body is not a temple, but a cage,” is a thought that often intrudes when one is alone in the kitchen, staring at leftovers that have turned a shade too gray. It is a feeling of being trapped not
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 Aug) — Afternoons pass as usual, jeepneys rumbling and people hurrying by. Yet at around 2:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Friday, colorful macramé wallets, tumbler holders, and sling bags are carefully arranged on the pavement
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 June) — Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte has acknowledged that he and his sister, Vice President Sara Duterte, are taking separate directions politically, following her remarks that she has no immediate plans to join Partido Demokratiko
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 July) — For a traditional Filipino household, the last thing my family wants is a daughter who believes she can change the world. No, I’m not talking about those who dream of superpowers to end
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 June)—Davaoeños celebrated the first city-wide AlterPride march Saturday morning at Roxas Avenue, with the organizers pushing issues like safe spaces, mental health, and the importance of the SOGIE Bill and gender-sensitive policies. Ken Ryle Hinoiales,
