Owing my life to my cousin for giving me my noise-cancelling, ear-deafening, emotion-inducing, bass-booming, life-changing, world-erasing, apocalypse-inducing headphones rn.
Maturing is realizing they never burned witches. They burned midwives, healers, herbalists, and knowledgeable women.
Women who understood medicine, nature, and their own autonomy. Women whose knowledge threatened patriarchal control. The "witch hunts" were never about magic, they were about silencing women who couldn't be controlled.
Nathan Portez acknowledged that he won't be affected by the issue either way.
and that's exactly the privilege. hindi kasi siya ang direktang apektado, so it's easy to dismiss the issue or reduce it to a matter of perspective.
can we normalize putting summaries on the back of books again instead of reviews? I just genuinely want to know what the book is about before picking it up.
Siam Silica = Domestic production and internal strengthening of capabilities for Thai growth. Thais get the full benefits
Pax Silica = Domestic production for the US economy. No internal growth cause we wont do the specialized jobs. US gets the full benefit, we get the crumbs.
jusko 😭 sit in ka sa econ classes namin nathan, baka sakaling mamulat ka.
sabi nga ng isang prof ko: kahit gaano pa yan kaganda para sa ekonomiya, kailangan laging unahin ang tao, because the economy is its people!!!