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Many challenges confront Malaysia’s fragile democracy. Of the six million newly emancipated voters – following constitutional amendments that lowered the voting age to 18 years old and automatically register eligible voters – a sizable chunk has no shared experience...

What is Southeast Asian democracy? Every Southeast Asian government ostensibly commits to democracy - but they also reject it as “foreign” or “western” in its inception and practice. This project asks Southeast Asians how we conceive of and practice democracy. It aims...

Oriang, named after Gregoria "Oriang" de Jesus, a key figure in the Philippine Revolution, has  undertaken the creation of a 12-track album that honors contemporary Philippine heroes. The project, initially a vision of creating music among women, queer folks, and...

“Ang kasaysayan ay ’di lang nasa nakaraan… Dahil ang ating storya ay ’di pa natutuldukan.”* In 1986, the Philippines was lauded worldwide for being the first country to oust a dictator without violence, in what was dubbed the Philippine People Power Revolution....

Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing has been hailed as one of the 10 Best Books for 2023 by the New York Times. A feat of literary journalism, the book compellingly retells the previous Philippine President’s bloody War on Drugs campaign, interviewing...

The imagined future is always a tenuous thing. But there is nothing more fragile than this present, which would’ve been impossible to imagine three, four decades ago. This is no paean to the past and what we could’ve done better, as it is an insistence that the...