Melissa A Week Ago After my eight hour shift at an exclusive mall (which excludes me from its high end comfort rooms), I help Mane (pronounced like the peanut) and Kat in cleaning the body area of the store, which covers over a hundred square meters out of the seven hundred square meters we occupy. … Continue reading
Somewhere deep inside my little heart, I still squirm whenever someone tells me we no longer need feminism. It’s sites like WomenAgainstFeminism.tumblr.com, and conversations that go “I don’t get feminism. Do women think they’re superior?” that make me want to rant against those thoughts and the people who express them. I can’t help it. The … Continue reading
I. Inertia I’ve never wished harder for. Perhaps if I sit still things will slow down. II. I’ve gotten used to the sensation of going backwards in a train. You feel as if your head is wrapping into itself, and the colors, first distinct, blur towards your eyes and then buries itself in the darkness … Continue reading
The first time I had to run 400 meters competitively was at Silliman University in Dumaguete in the 2010 UniGames on my freshman year of college. Before that, I had already formed what I thought then was enough knowledge in distance running; I had already won a medal at a competition, a cash prize at … Continue reading
“If you could give a piece of advice to your freshman self, what would it be?” Our org, PRO-CSSP, posed this question online for a presentation to the incoming freshmen of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. Hugot levels ran high, and varying responses followed. From the vividly detailed: To advice on health and wellness: … Continue reading
The following essay is an analysis of a keynote speech delivered by Gloria Steinem entitled Leaps of Consciousness; delivered in the United States in 2004 during the 3rd annual Women & Power Conference. — “The personal is political” is the implicit, and sometimes explicit, premise of all studies on gender. Ms. Steinem’s keynote speech is … Continue reading
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and I thought now would be the time to write a letter, of love of sorts, or whatever. PS, I love you or more specifically, Political Science, I love you. — It’s been almost four years of you and if we further disaggregate that (a concept you taught … Continue reading
I first heard of The Act of Killing while it was still making its rounds in the various film festivals in 2012. I was flipping through channels and by chance there was a feature on this documentary in one of the 24-hour news outlets. It was on Al Jazeera, I think, and I remember that … Continue reading
Let me start off by saying I don’t enjoy running. I’ve had to run a lot in the past, in distances longer than I would have preferred. I continue to run regularly, two times a week minimum, and I will probably run more in the future as long as my willpower and legs can muster … Continue reading
An Appraisal of the Genre by Melissa Yu The genre of creative nonfiction has evolved from a mere deviation from the conventional journalistic technique of reporting facts and transcriptions—to a highly schematized genre with its own prerequisites and demands. However, the most curious aspect of creating such is perhaps the fact that writers, more often … Continue reading
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