What a historic October it has been! For our wrap up, we talk about the 2022 Philippine elections (which just got more real this month), the oil price hike, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, and the historic Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Maria Ressa. With us this episode is Rappler’s Life and Style, Entertainment, and Opinion Editor, Marguerite de Leon (@margie_deleon) to help us unpack this month’s newsbreakers and to share a bit of an insider’s perspective on Rappler and the impact of Maria Ressa’s Nobel.

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More than a year and a half later, the fight against COVID-19 still rages on. It seemed as if the world was caught unaware as governments scrambled to respond. But... it's not like the world is experiencing its first pandemic, right? For our second Hindi Na Bago 'Yan episode, we talked to Dr. Renzo Guinto of St. Luke's Medical Center regarding the current pandemic as we try to look back at the Philippine experience of pandemics past. We also talked about the Global North and South divide and the movement to decolonize public health.

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PODKAS is back with a brand new season! In the first episode of Hindi Na Bago 'Yan!, we take a look at Philippine elections and party politics. As the 2022 election looms ahead, we are inundated by talks of standard bearers, political parties, party-switching, among others. What do these mean? And how are our elections and political parties rooted in history? We talked to Julio Teehankee of De La Salle University to help us unpack this topic.

For a full version of our interview with July, visit our website, www.podkas.org. 

The BER months are here! And even if we're on a break, we cannot miss all the happenings this September, because it was no less newsworthy than the rest of the year! We covered HB 9850 which mandates that 50% of the tertiary Philippine history curriculum be focused on WW2, Toni Talks and that interview with Bongbong Marcos, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the Pharmally scandal, and the upcoming elections. With us in this episode is a historian from the National Historical Commission of the Philippines and our resident Twitter historian, Kris Pasion (@indiohistorian)!

So get cozy and join us as we traverse through this month's newsbreakers, and brace yourself as we are set to launch our brand new season next month!

We go back to the events of August 2021 as we discuss the IPCC Report on Climate Change, the Taliban march to Kabul in Afghanistan, the Whang-Od and Nas Academy controversy, and the multitude of issues that hound the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. With us to unpack these issues is our special guest Dr. Dahlia Simangan, Associate Professor and core member of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability, Hiroshima University. She also hosts her own podcast on academia and the Global South, Scholars Unbound.

The PODKAS Team will be launching a brand new season very soon! For updates, please visit our website, www.podkas.org.

We conclude our season on contested histories by shining a light on another underrepresented sector in Philippine history: the indigenous peoples. We travel through hundreds of years of resistance against colonization, maintaining indigenous cultures, and the struggle of the IPs for their rights and their welfare in Philippine society. The IP story is that of marginalization and oppression. What can we do to change this?

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The Chinese in the Philippines have been a permanent fixture that has defined Filipino culture for hundreds of years. From trading partners, migrants, and their usual representation as merchants and entrepreneurs, we explore the changing representations of the Chinese in Philippine history in this episode.

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We scan several historical periods to situate Moro identity and their historical experience within the Philippine polity by interrogating the place they occupied in the writing of Philippine history. Our conversation revealed that while the historical injustices they suffered since the seat of government was left to the Christian majority, it wasn't until the time of Marcos that the flames of discontent and revolt were stoked. Now that Muslim Mindanao is transforming into the Bangsamoro, we must do what we can to revisit the place of the Moro in our historical narrative and realize that they are, indeed, part of Philippine society.

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More than a historical controversy, the way women have been treated in Philippine history is nothing short of historical injustice. In this episode, we talk about how the Filipina has been written in Philippine history by tracking how historical writing has rendered women marginalized, voiceless, and trapped in a Maria Clara box. Lee also talks about his recent journal article on the portrayal of women during World War II in the Philippines.

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