Gender Rights

This week, researcher Sharmila Parmanand joins us. We talk about sex workers and their strange position in Philippine society as both "victims" and "criminals" in the eyes of the law.

This week, we celebrate International Women's Day with sociologist Nicole Curato. We talk about whether women are really equal in the Philippines and discuss the horrors of denied reproductive health care.

Red Tani and sociologist Nicole Curato explore the implications of the recent US Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.

With Independence Day upon us, the controversy around Tony Meloto's University of Hawaii speech reveals much about the racial inferiority complex and...

This week, we talk about trigger warnings for rape and other topics in fiction. We discuss which topics should have trigger warnings and whether they should exist at all.

Given this administration's publicly stated commitment to transparency and woman's rights, and the support such a report would provide for the speedy and effective implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (colloquially known as the RH Law), the Filipino Freethinkers wishes to join in the call for the government to make the CEDAW Committee's findings public before March 6.

This article was inspired by a post on the Filipino Freethinkers updates and announcements Facebook group page. One group member casually...

No two freethinkers are exactly alike; a group of freethinkers contains a great diversity of perspectives, so there is no one,...

Alan Turing was a mathematical genius, a wartime code breaker, a computer pioneer, and, to some extent, a British spy ala...