The LGBTQIA+ community in the Philippines remains vulnerable to discrimination and hate crimes. The Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) Equality Bill is still pending in Congress after 25 years. For the Filipino queer community, Pride serves as a venue for protest as systemic problems persist.
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Vice President Leni Robredo announces she is running for president.
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A boy carries wood his father brought home for rebuilding their house." (April 2015, Tacloban City)
October 10, 2013, just over a week after the ceasefire of the standoff between the military and rogue Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) forces in Zamboanga City. Parked in the coast inside the compound of the Western Mindanao Command, is one of the motorboats reportedly used by armed MNLF fighters to enter Brgy. Rio Hondo during the onset of the crisis. The shipwreck lies astoundingly beautiful against the golden sunset in one of the southernmost points of the Mindanao island.
Just few days after the landfall of Super Tyhpoon Ruby in December 2014, this kid aboard a parked vessel along the coast of Poblacion, Basey, Samar was crying. His mother was shouting along the coast, retorting him to go home. His mother later told me that the child was having tantrums because he was not permitted to go deep-sea fishing with his father. As the night falls, this bluish grey sky, with a slight tint of apricot, seemingly wept with the boy.
“To deny it and say that our petitions ‘lack of merit’ is to endorse the historical distortions perpetrated by the Marcoses, whitewash their crimes against the people, and abet their delusions of returning to power."
Cyclists and women's rights activists participate in a unity ride in Quezon City that calls for safe space and end violence against women and children on Sunday, Feb. 13. The 10-km bike ride aimed at raising awareness on rising cases of sexual harassment and abuse against women, especially on women bikers.
“A dictator who plunged the nation into debt, human rights violations, and dictatorship will never be a hero — and with this diabolical tandem Marcos-Duterte tandem in the 2022 elections, we can only expect more of their lies glorifying the atrocious regimes of their fathers and continue their legacies of tyranny and undemocratic rule."
“As long as there is ill-gotten wealth that remains in the hands of the Marcoses, we will continue to demand the return of all that were stolen from the Filipino people from the nation’s coffers. We will not allow more of that through another Marcos in the person of Ferdinand, Jr."
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