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Bel Zamora and the unspoken rules for women who take up space

There was plenty to question about the prosecution’s firearms presentation at the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Sept. 28. The comments about flirtation, voice and femininity answered a different question altogether. There was a perfectly legitimate argument for San Juan Rep. Ysabel Maria “Bel” Zamora’s direct examination. Did a police records officer’s...

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To nourish a legacy of criticism and scholarship in the academe

In this age where power continuously redefines and reinvents itself, the response of an enlightened academe is clear: to critique, interrogate, and resist. It was in September when the secretariat started planning for the 3rd Edel Garcellano Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) in Santa Mesa, Manila....