Heroes as tattoos

Text and photos: Kimmy Baraoidan and Chris Quintana Tattoo competitions and festivals easily conjure up images of heavily inked tattoo artists and clients—many with silver glinting from their ears, eyebrows, noses, or lower lips; and some with earlobes the sizes of a coin to a small saucer. Every now and then, a scantily clad woman…

New comic book challenges Maria Clara image

Text and photos by Kimmy Baraoidan There is a need to arouse historical consciousness in each individual Filipino because we are drowning in neo-colonial culture, writer and civic intellectual Epifanio San Juan Jr. said in a recent forum. With Philippine history vanishing from the school curriculum and the alarming ignorance among the youth about the martial…