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I Have a Voice: Trafficked Women — In Their Own Words” reveals to us the life stories of young women who all experienced various forms of violence in their lives. They have undergone healing. We are grateful…
When I was doing my dissertation on “Towards Developing Feminist Leadership in Philippine Setting” way back in the mid-1990s, one of the sources that helped me in working on my review of literature was a book on…
Ever since my childhood massage has provided me with healing. When I had flu at five; I had fever, joint pains, and I couldn’t even stand and walk. My aunt and godmother thought we had to go…
Although most women live longer than men, they have many wellness problems. Many women in our society are poor. Due to their poverty as well as gender-related issues, they are malnourished. Most women are overworked, more so…
My early encounter with the rosary must have been in the Flores de Mayo. At that time, mostly young girls came to church with baskets of flowers which were to be offered to the Blessed Virgin. Like…
As Education Month comes to a close and Teachers’ day approaches, I recall some very inspiring educators: Socorro Villalobos, Neneng Hermosa, and Felisa U. Etemadi. Metrobank outstanding teacher awardee Socorro Villalobos had been the dean of UP…
September 23-28, 1991 (exactly 25 years ago) marked the Cebu Cultural Week at UP Cebu spearheaded by its Local Studies Committee which I headed and involved the faculty of the different divisions and my Fourth Year Social…
Yesterday, the students and teachers of Our Lady of Joy Learning Center joined the celebration of International Day of Peace. The day before, the students prepared paper flowers with peace wishes for distribution among the participants. These…
Macario D. Tiu, the book’s editor, declares in the introduction: “Reading the stories, I immediately saw their historical value in showing on the one hand the arbitrariness and brutality to the Marcos Dictatorship (1972-1986), and on the…
Today is the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attack, and there are certain lessons that will never be written down in history. One lesson is that there is no such thing as “faraway.” It was the…
One hundred fifty years ago Pope Pius IX granted the request of the Redemptorists to have the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help so that it “can be placed in the newly built Church of the…
Prof. Henry Francis Espiritu of UP Cebu wrote an article last week entitled “My Brother Filipinos, What Have We Become?” where he shares his reflections on the extrajudicial killings. He laments the “general apathy that average Filipinos…
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