andrea is a writer from the Philippines interested in culture, the internet, identity, feminism, and the tiny crevices where these all intersect.you may know her as the co-founder of an independent film publication, an editor, a culture columnist, a marketer, an avid oversharer of books on tiktok, or you may not know her at all (that's the most fun option - welcome!)she (unironically) loves emails. drop her a line at [email protected].
is a writer based in the Philippines. she is passionate about culture, film, books, the internet, identity, feminism, and the tiny crevices where these all intersect.she is the incoming editor-in-chief of The Philippine STAR's Young STAR, and she has written for CNN Philippines Life, Adolescent Content, Lithium Magazine, and others.she also co-founded Philippine film publication Sine Liwanag, where she works with a team of over thirty writers and handles all socials, including graphics.and for some reason she started posting about books on tiktok, to an audience of almost 30,000.she is obsessed with her inbox. say hi at [email protected].
selected writing
feminism + sexuality
On depictions of female masturbation in media and how it's continuously shaped by capitalism and Catholicism
A Filipina's sexuality is her scarlet letter. Why does this happen, and how can we put an end to it?
Unshackling from the culture of silence around FGM
On masculinity, heterosexuality, therapy, and how the patriarchy hurts us all
The lack of comprehensive, formal sex education has pushed the youth to learn about it elsewhere. Is it working?
On the sudden spike in cybersex and the liberation that comes with it
The way we react to assault allegations almost always comes at the expense of the victim
Internalized misogyny robbed me of my youth! #JusticeForAndrea
The internet’s ability to “bridge borders” as a global platform is often just the erasure of non-Western context; its universality actually just neocolonialism.
On the modernization of patriarchal power, and how the male gaze that women are subjected to today are enforced entirely by micropowers
internet
Why do we create separate stan accounts, and why do we keep them hidden?
On the Instagram accounts that post screenshots of weird/funny/creepy texts, mostly from men
On neoliberal feminism and the sexism prevalent in the film social network Letterboxd
On the TikTok community is responsible for thousands of people around the world — including Filipinos — picking up a reading habit.
Can we ever resist parasocial relationships - or would we even want to?
On a disillusionment with personal branding, especially as a writer on the internet
current events (with a sociology/psychology slant)
How do we see supporters of the Duterte administration outside of our echochambers?
"Men will do anything but go to therapy," as the joke goes. Why?
The psychology behind the excessive exhaustion we feel from online classes
Investigating why we doomscroll and watch horror movies to cope
Speaking with the founders of Positive Workplaces on positive psychology and work cultures
film + pop culture
The Filipino internet sensation talks one-man musicals, reopening wounds for content, and the power of comedy
See you on the Netflix algorithm, space cowboy
Diving deep into the unique phenomenon of love teams and what it means in 2022
There’s now a sense of skepticism in how Filipinos now engage with young Fil-Am stars
The story of how the Philippine production coordinator of “Drive My Car” translated "Uncle Vanya" to Filipino
Investigating how Oscar entries get selected in the Philippines
On Xavier Dolan's "Mommy", mothers, their children, and their best friends
On "Fleabag" and evading trauma through repackaging it for an audience
A review of "Never Rarely Sometimes Always", young girlhood, female friendship, and reproductive justice
Movies that could pass as Black Mirror episodes to tide you over the show's hiatus
On dreaming of a teenhood that can only occur on the other side of the globe
This is definitely not an Otis Milburn hate-piece
On finding your way back to a reading habit
identity + life
Unlearning hustle culture and relearning to be okay with non-"big" dreams
On benevolent sexism, the emerging Indie Man archetype, why our lives have become so much worse once they came around
On Goffman, diary entries, Bo Burnham's "Eighth Grade", and performing your Self to yourself
On "Melodrama", crushes, and being 17, 18, 19...
On saying goodbye to friends (or trying to)
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complete writing archive
2021
- “Merci, Kyla, Merci!”: Love as a Prerequisite for Personhood in Mommy / Bright Wall/Dark Room
- How to Have Difficult Conversations at Work / Positive Workplaces
- Culture cheat sheet: Lana Del Rey, “Her” score, and more / Adolescent Content
- Sexist Men on Letterboxd Are My Joker Origin Story / Lithium Magazine
- Is the Pandemic Making You Overwork? / Positive Workplaces
- Everything We Learned About Digital Training, After 1 Year of Positive Workplaces / Positive Workplaces
- Culture cheat sheet: Kristen Wiig, Lucy Dacus, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: “Moxie,” St. Vincent, and more / Adolescent Content
- How Can You Bring Positive Psychology to Your Workplace? / Positive Workplaces
- It's Time We Start Personal De-Branding / BOBBLEHAUS
- Culture cheat sheet: “Minari,” HAIM, and more / Adolescent Content
- Rethinking Our Response to Sexual Assault Allegations / Young STAR
- Culture cheat sheet: Olivia Rodrigo, Harry Styles, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: Regina King’s directorial debut, Fran Lebowitz, and more / Adolescent Content
- Easy, Like Muscle Memory / Uniquely Aligned
- Culture cheat sheet: post-holiday movie guide / Adolescent Content
- Our Lady of Autoeroticism: Catholicism, Capitalism, and Female Masturbation / Lithium Magazine
2020
- 16 Best Movies of 2020, According to Gen-Z Critics / Lithium Magazine
- The changemakers disrupting toxic work cultures / Young STAR
- Culture cheat sheet: “evermore” and an Aubrey Plaza double feature / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: Miley Cyrus, David Fincher, and Rico Nasty / Adolescent Content
- Prude in the Sheets, Slut on the Screen / Lithium Magazine
- The Closest You’ve Ever Been to Your Truest Self / Uniquely Aligned
- Culture cheat sheet: “His House,” Phoebe Bridgers, and more / Adolescent Content
- Keeping your enemies closer / Young STAR
- Culture cheat sheet: Sofia Coppola, Harry Styles, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: David Byrne, Ruel, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: Miranda July, beabadoobee, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: Radha Blank, Joji, and more / Adolescent Content
- All My Homies Hate Retail Therapy / Lithium Magazine
- Culture cheat sheet: “Lingua Franca,” Sufjan Stevens, and more / Adolescent Content
- Hiding from the Comfort Crowd / Uniquely Aligned
- Culture cheat sheet: “The Devil All The Time,” Lady Gaga, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: “Cuties,” NIKI, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: Charlie Kaufman, SZA, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: “I May Destroy You,” BLACKPINK, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: BTS, "Patriot Act," and more / Adolescent Content
- ‘An Easy Girl’: Gazing at Girlhood / Sine Liwanag
- Privacy settings: Not found / Young STAR
- White People, Read This Before You Take a Social Media Break / Lithium Magazine
- I Rate SheRatesDogs: Why Do We Love Laughing at Other People’s DMs? / Lithium Magazine
- Society Has Progressed Past the Need for Indie Men / Lithium Magazine
- Why Do So Many Men Want to Marry Women from the Global South? / Lithium Magazine
- Dispatch from Zoom university / Young STAR
- How to be an antiracist: movies and books on anti-blackness / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: The 1975, Carly Rae Jepsen, and more / Adolescent Content
- Decolonizing Feminism: Redefining Sex Work in Non-Western Terms / Lithium Magazine
- Bidding online feminism goodbye / Young STAR
- ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ and the Secret Language of Women / Sine Liwanag
- When Your Quaranfling Gets Serious / Lithium Magazine
- Culture cheat sheet: Beanie Feldstein, Charli XCX, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: “Never Have I Ever,” “The Half of It,” and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: “Normal People,” Kehlani, and more / Adolescent Content
- ‘Misery Business’ and the Emancipation of the Bad Feminist / Uniquely Aligned
- Culture cheat sheet: Fiona Apple, Eliza Hittman, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: “Fleabag” for charity, Rina Sawayama, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: “Tigertail,” Wallows, and more / Adolescent Content
- 9 Local Films to Stream Right Now / Sine Liwanag
- Culture cheat sheet: “The Platform,” Frank Ocean, and more / Adolescent Content
- Some of Us Swipe Right on Everyone to Cope / Uniquely Aligned
- Culture cheat sheet: Dua Lipa, Cavetown, and more / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: “Queen & Slim,” Megan Thee Stallion, and more / Adolescent Content
- The Movies That Got Us Into Movies / Uniquely Aligned
- Culture cheat sheet: Doja Cat, “I Am Not Okay With This,” and more / Adolescent Content
- 30 Coming-of-Age Movies That Made Us Feel Seen / Lithium Magazine
- Double Lives: Or, the Anatomy of the Secret Stan Account / Lithium Magazine
- Culture cheat sheet: “Uncut Gems,” Taylor Swift’s documentary, and more / Adolescent Content
- The Soft Boys of Netflix, Ranked / Lithium Magazine
- The Land of Niche Ships / Lithium Magazine
- Culture cheat sheet: “Birds of Prey,” Tan France, and more / Adolescent Content
- The teens of "Sex Education," ranked / Adolescent Content
- Culture cheat sheet: Hayley Williams’ solo project, “Sex Ed,” and more / Adolescent Content
- All the Lonely, Secretly Enormous Ways I Feel Desire / Uniquely Aligned
- Culture cheat sheet: Xavier Dolan, Andre Aciman’s essays, and more / Adolescent Content
2019
- Why Am I So Obsessed with Self-Transformation? / Uniquely Aligned
- How to Get Back Into Reading This Summer / Lithium Magazine
- Why Marielle Heller should be your new favorite director / Adolescent Content
- “Reel Honey” Founder Sydney Urbanek on Diversifying Film Criticism / Lithium Magazine
- MMFF 2019: ‘Write About Love’—On Failed Romance and Other Prerequisites for Growth / Sine Liwanag
- 9 Movies to Watch If You Already Miss “Black Mirror” / Lithium Magazine
- 30 Essential Films of the 2010s / Sine Liwanag
- Cinema One Originals 2019: ‘Tayo Muna Habang Hindi Pa Tayo’ — On Synthetic Romance and Unromantic Synthesis / Sine Liwanag
- Sublimated Love, or the Emancipation of Xavier Dolan in ‘Matthias et Maxime’ / Sine Liwanag
- ‘Dead Kids’: Being Neon-Lit Does Not Make a Movie Good
- I Love You, Sad Girl / Uniquely Aligned
- Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino 2019: ‘LSS’ – Love? In This Economy? / Sine Liwanag
- ‘Crawl’: The Latest Entry in This Summer’s Flimsy Blockbuster Lineup / Sine Liwanag
- Why Did It Take Me So Long to Start Taking Care of Myself? / Uniquely Aligned
- ‘Otherhood’: What’s So Funny About Toxic Mothers? / Sine Liwanag
- Cinemalaya 2019: ‘Edward’ – Social Tragedy in Small-Scale / Sine Liwanag
- Cinemalaya 2019: Shorts A, Ranked / Sine Liwanag
- “Fleabag,” fourth walls, and the flaws of first-person writing / Adolescent Content
- Is Anybody Home? / Uniquely Aligned
- An Elegy to the Fan Party / Uniquely Aligned
- Growing up on Western teen media as non-Western teenagers / Adolescent Content
- Your fave is problematic—now what? / Adolescent Content
- Who’s Afraid of Unrequited Love? / Uniquely Aligned
- Where exactly is the male gaze? / Adolescent Content
- An Ode to Bandersnatch and All the Things I Wish I Could Change / Dissolving Film Mag
- ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is only charming if you let it be / Adolescent Content
- 20 women-directed films to watch for awards season / Adolescent Content
- Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’ is John Hughes for the socially conscious generation / Adolescent Content
- Dear diary: on the performative self and the non-existence of private space / Adolescent Content
- 'My I Love You' with Andrea Panaligan
2018
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office of sen. kiko pangilinan (copywriting + graphics)
positive workplaces (copywriting)
sine liwanag (copywriting + graphics)