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Be Part of Them – An Activist’s Perspective By Eldemar Sabete HAPI Scholar | HAPI-Bacolod Member   Throughout my years as a young activist, I have visited numerous areas and met a variety of people who have helped me gain a better knowledge of society’s inequities and oppression, particularly in the marginalized sector. How powerful […]

Did you know? Ancient Visayans were SEXPERTS! By Junelie Velonta HAPI Scholar A 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑑𝑜’𝑠 tattoos were records of his skills in battle. However, it is also a show of their prowess in bed! Sex was so normalized amongst the precolonial Visayans that the first Spanish missionaries sent to the islands thought that Visayan men and

A Call for Solidarity by HAPI-Bacolod amidst Typhoon Odette (Rai) By Glemir Sordilla HAPI Scholar | HAPI-Bacolod Member A month has passed since Typhoon Odette (Rai) devastated the Philippines’ Visayas and Mindanao regions. In terms of circumferential overcast, Odette is comparable to 2013’s Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), the worst natural calamity that the Philippines has endured

How HAPI Impacted Me (#9) An essay series featuring retrospectives by HAPI members, staff, and leaders in celebration of its 8th Anniversary.   I grew up being constantly told to obey religious rules. Blinded by faith, I was hindered from doing so many things and learning a lot of concepts that could have been beneficial to

How HAPI Impacted Me (#8) An essay series featuring retrospectives by HAPI members, staff, and leaders in celebration of its 8th Anniversary.   I’ll shoot it right away: here are three ways in which HAPI impacted me! Ｃｏｍｍｕｎｉｔｙ A good friend introduced HAPI to me when I was still in transition from a fledgling Baptist pastor

How HAPI Impacted Me (#7) An essay series featuring retrospectives by HAPI members, staff, and leaders in celebration of its 8th Anniversary.   Throughout the years I have lived, whenever people come and talk to me about religion or my opinions about certain topics, I have always felt like I was alone. I felt like my

How HAPI Impacted Me (#6) An essay series featuring retrospectives by HAPI members, staff, and leaders in celebration of its 8th Anniversary.   I was only 17 years old when I stumbled across HAPI. I was immature, clueless, and just getting by with my life. Humanism or being a humanist was something I didn’t have an

How HAPI Impacted Me (#4) An essay series featuring retrospectives by HAPI members, staff, and leaders in celebration of its 8th Anniversary.   Growing up as a curious child in a household surrounded by devout Catholics played a huge part in creating the woman I am today. I had friends and teachers, even Sunday school teachers,

How HAPI Impacted Me (#3) An essay series featuring retrospectives by HAPI members, staff, and leaders in celebration of its 8th Anniversary.   Having different beliefs from most people my age, I have always been considered an outcast, or worst, left out. Although I always worked hard to achieve whatever it is that I have

How HAPI Impacted Me (#2) An essay series featuring retrospectives by HAPI members, staff, and leaders in celebration of its 8th Anniversary.   When I first entered HAPI, I was out of a job and out of school. I was without direction. While HAPI may not be the direct reason why I got my life