In the Filipino culture, art and photography lack the support from our communities in which we place our focus towards health and business as careers. On the contrary, we are in dire need of careers that hold the values of creativity and critical thought to encourage new generations to be able to think freely and open-minded especially during a time of understanding serious global, political, and social issues of today. Photography as an art form provides a diverse lens of ex

Having read Jessica Hagedorn’s controversial novel, Dogeaters, I found myself struggling with the the novel’s complex structure of the narrative, which uses the risky interchanges of first and third person point of views as well as interwoven newspaper clippings that pieces together an intense journey leading up to the main event of plotting an assassination. Jessica Hagedorn is a Filipino author, poet, playwright, and a multimedia artist, born in the Philippines and migrated