Flipping The Narrative
Episodes
Flip It Good
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a year… and it’s only May. We did a live and ended up talking about popes, professors and politicians with an old friend of the pod. W...
Palibhasa Babae
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who Run The World? To be a woman these days… it’s a minefield out there! Women are urged to empower themselves in a society that still expects the...
Whatta Guy!
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Man oh man, we live in unusual times. Bye bye binaries, hello multi-hyphenates. But what does that all mean when it comes to defining masculinity in t...
May Asim Pa!
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
And just like that, we’re back! We know, we know, it’s been ages. But one of us got married and opened a restaurant, one of us completed a dissert...
Madder Packing Hilaryus
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of the ties that bind us, a nation of disparate people separated by seas and straits, spread out among 7,107 islands and speaking over 7...
Where All The Pinoys At??
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hospitals, airports, cruise ships ... Filipinos are EVERYWHERE. So why are we nowhere? Or why has it taken this long for us to appear, as us, as Filip...
Don't Stop Believin'
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Girl can’t help it, she needs to tell stories. Ramona Diaz, the award-winning documentary filmmaker, has brought to the screen some of the most dist...
Return Of The Comeback
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We took a break. It was unplanned. Like many Filipinos, we needed a moment. The last elections were ... something. There are certain things — like t...
The Young & The Restless
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Children in the Philippines are often raised to be obedient and respectful; independence of thought and purpose is unfortunately not as vigorously enc...
Otso-Bulaga-Canteen Nation!
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The noontime variety show is a staple of Philippine mass culture. A celebration of the kitsch and the banal, it is often a formulaic whirl of trite sk...
EDSA WRAP... or is it?
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was the revolution that stunned the world. Millions of Filipinos managing to oust — without a single drop of blood shed — a brutal dictator who...
Holding The Line
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not every day that we have a Nobel Prize winner as a guest flipper. Award-winning journalist, icon of press freedom and all-around badass Maria...
White Wedding
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s be honest. We’re a halo halo nation in large part because of the interracial relationships that have been taking place since precolonial tim...
Their Majesty
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all, sang the late vocal powerhouse and gay icon Whitney Houston. For the month of love, we talk sel...
What A Flipping Year!
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What a Flipping Year!2021, that’s a wrap! Seven months and 14 episodes later, Laura Verallo de Bertotto, Luis de Terry and Bambina Olivares reflect ...
Note Worthy: Shouldn't We Support Our Artists Before They Make It Big Abroad?
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a people, Filipinos love to dance and sing, get up and do their thing. There’s no doubt that ours is a country whose cup runneth over with the sh...
Marcos: Never Again, Again?!?!
20 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If anyone thought Filipinos had seen the last of the Marcoses when they fled to exile in Hawaii in 1986, they were sorely mistaken, as events have cle...
My, What A Big Election!
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let the games begin! With the presidential elections looming, election fever is starting to heat up. A bevy of candidates have thrown their proverbia...
Kain Na Tayo
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The love language of the Filipinos is food. “Kain tayo” - let’s eat - is almost always the follow up to hello. Food for us is kinship, and is a...
Come Again? What Did You Said?
09 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the American occupation of the Philippines is the dominance of the English language. It is one of the country’s...
The Happy Vagina
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Filipinos have a strange relationship with sex, specifically their sexual organs. Blame our strict religious upbringing and sociocultural sense of sh...
Whose God Is It Anyway?
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A particularly Philippine claim to fame is that our country is the bastion of Christianity in Asia. Indeed, over 86% of the population is Roman Cathol...
Caste Away!
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To live and die in the so social class you're born into is a godsend if you happen to be at the top of the pecking order in the Philippines. For t...
Are We Asian Or Are We Latino?
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon the 16th century, say the history books, we were a collection of chiefdoms that most likely would have been absorbed into the Muslim sultana...
Raising Race
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Philippines, it’s been said, is where Asia wears a smile. Filipinos may be warm, but they’re also capable of being prejudiced - and unfiltere...
Yas, Queen!
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just when you thought you knew everything about beauty pageants - that spectacle of sequins and swimsuits that is a source of national pride in the Ph...
In The Name Of Pride
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s PRIDE month, so let’s talk about the “L” word. In the panoply of gender identities that make up the rainbow coalition popularly known as ...
Am I Filipino?
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s a typical Filipino anyway? And who would be the ultimate judge of Filipino-ness? In their introductory podcast, Laura Verallo de Bertotto, ...
Introducing Flipping The Narrative
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re frank, fearless, and irreverent. We’re also Filipino, and we’re here to flip the narrative on all things culture-, race-, gender-related a...