Mindoro Island

Meet Jessa Villanueva, a Mindoro-raised college student scrolling through Instagram food influencers, feeling the gap between viral “unusual” dishes and her childhood staple, simple, plain, often scoffed at by elders. Jessa sat in her Manila dorm room last September, phone ...

I watched a German tourist photograph a Mangyan woman in her traditional beaded necklace and handwoven skirt outside Calapan last year. He crouched, adjusted his lens three times, and never once asked her name. When he walked away, she turned ...