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Exporting Filipina Mothers to Pay the Nation's Debt (opens the original)
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“Is that your amo (master)?” A middle-aged Filipina on the bus in Rome casually asked me about my companion. That day in 1992, I was with the late Bruno Amoroso, my Italian-Danish professor in Welfare and Environmental Economics. By 1992, the Soviet Union had collapsed, the Berlin Wall had fallen, and Europe was on the verge of uniting. So, a journalist from Thailand, a lawyer from the Philippines, and I were there to learn what happens next from Professor Amoroso (1936-2017) at Roskilde Univers
Lost Autonomy, No Divorce: The Burden on Single Filipino Mothers (opens the original)
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“Those people go naked, wearing but one piece of palm-tree cloth about their private parts.” Wrote Antonio Pigafetta (1491 – 1534), the Venetian who, in 1519, joined the expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan to the Moluccas Spice Islands. By March 1521, they landed in the Visayan Islands of today’s Philippines. In his diary, Pigafetta described the men and women they encountered there. “The males, both young and old, have their penis pierced from one side to the other near the head, with a gold o
The Price that “Babaylan” Women Leaders Paid (opens the original)
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“There is no such thing as a free lunch.” The adage that economists used to explain opportunity cost also applies to the invisible cost that comes with every gain or action. The environment and humans who are dependent on them usually pay the price. But billing is not evenly distributed. Dues are charged asymmetrically across genders too. While credit on the colonial masters’ account got debited from all the subjugated, women paid more. When colonization downgraded Filipino women to a much lower
The Nun who Wanted to Change the World... and Did (opens the original)
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“Students of St. Scholastica’s are ‘colegiala ’; they’re not used to advocacy work,” said the retired environmentalist nun, Sister Aida Velasquez OSB. She explained that schoolgirls in this exclusive, all-girls Catholic College are from affluent families. But she added that Sister Mary John Mananzan OSB was the exception. “She is the activist,” Sister Aida said. A boarding “interna” since grade school, Sister Mary John also took her perpetual vows there. “But I’m not in the ‘haciendero’ (landed
Speaking Truth to Power in a Nun’s Habit (opens the original)
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When I saw Sister Aida Velasquez OSB without a veil, I thought it was someone else impersonating her. We both had given our talks the day before. And that morning in Mindanao (Philippines) in 1991, she had just finished breakfast when I arrived. Ready to visit remote project sites, the activist nun was wearing jeans and a printed cotton blouse. “I’m not in uniform,” she said in her commanding voice. She must have read cognitive dissonance written all over my face. I had only seen her in a grey o
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