Sade Andria Zabala
Filipina mermaid. Author of WAR SONGS and Coffee & Cigarettes.
14 Essential Steps To Love Yourself Every Single Day
Plenty of people will gladly help to pull you down, you don’t have to be one of them.
Sad On Valentine’s Day? Don’t Worry It’s A Fake Holiday
By disguising consumerism as love, Valentine’s has sneakily nestled itself into our social rituals that you may not realize it affects you, too.
Is Miss Universe Sexist Or Feminist?
In the Philippines beauty pageants are welcomed with enthusiastic fervor comparable to that of an Olympic competition. I will even venture to say Filipinos are obsessed with pageants and I don’t exaggerate.
It Feels Like I’ve Loved You For A Long Time
Because I don’t want this to be another mistake. I don’t want us to make cautionary tales out of each other. I don’t want to be scorched to cinders by heartbreak anymore.
5 Ways You Can Practice Courage
Brave does not equal cold-heartedness, lack of softness, or constant strength. Brave is the ability to perform under duress while remaining true to yourself in the process.
7 Famous White Feminists I’m So Over
Hollywood is flocking with White Feminists who range from annoying to problematic to downright toxic.
Grab This New Year By The Throat
2017 I hope you’ll be gentle, but if you mess with me I will fight you. Bye 2016. You were a major bitch, but now I’m a bigger one.
This Is Your Poem For 2017, Based On Your Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius: When children ask the sky who they should be like when they grow up, the clouds spell out your name.
I Sexted My Ex And We Accidentally Made Poetry
Here’s my dirty laundry in poetic form and below it are screenshots of his replies. Enjoy.
When You Live In A Third World Country
Where I come from children are not allowed to be children.
When You’re The ‘Bad Girl’
People expect you only know how to be sexy, because you seem ‘slutty,’ because you’re an attention-seeker, because you’re shallow, stupid, unclean.
27 Ways I Survived 2016
2016 was one hell of a mess.