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2023 Fellows
Meet this year’s individuals, organizations, and networks that aim to undertake projects that advance democratic values in any one or across a number of countries in Southeast Asia.
Our 2023 Fellows
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Generating new ideas. Solving big problems.
By supporting and promoting public intellectuals, the Democracy Discourse Series intends to create a platform for engaged thinking in response to the public’s hunger for insights and alternative perspectives that are understandable and relatable. It also aims to build a network of public intellectuals in Southeast Asia who will defend democratic values, and establish solidarity networks with diverse causes.
News & Updates
Habilin Season 2: Stories of the Little Light in All Of Us
“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 Cited as New York Times’ Top Ten Books for 2023
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...
Sining Siyasat: Sobering Conversations Towards Creative Interventions
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...
Past DDS Fellows
The Democracy Discourse Series (DDS) Public Intellectuals include activists, community leaders, art and theater practitioners, and journalists whose projects deal with interventions on democratic issues on human rights, electoral rights, press freedom, youth advocacy, LGBT movements, migrant rights, governance, disinformation on the public spheres in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asian Public Intellectuals.
The DDS promotes informed and responsible intellectuals who can counter misinformation and fake news. By elevating the public profiles of public intellectuals, they can more effectively counter and debate social media celebrities and other promoters of misinformation.
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