Month: November 2025

Deaf Awareness Week: The Unheard Rhythm of Equality

Deaf Awareness Week moves beyond sound—building equality, connection, and rhythm that even silence can carry.

Philippines—November 10 to 16, 2025

Some hear the world through music. Others feel it through silence.

This week is for those who prove that rhythm doesn’t belong only to the ears. The Deaf community has always known how to turn silence into art—feeling the beat through vibration, seeing melody through movement, and expressing harmony through sign.

The week’s main goals:

• Educate the public about the culture, rights, and abilities of Deaf Filipinos

• Promote Filipino Sign Language (FSL) as their official and natural language

• Push for accessibility in schools, workplaces, and public spaces

• Empower Deaf individuals through education, training, and employment

• Strengthen inclusion and equality in all areas of society

• Build connection between the hearing and the Deaf—through respect, understanding, and shared creativity

Here in the Philippines, Deaf Awareness Week isn’t about pity.

It’s about equality, visibility, and rhythm shared beyond sound.

Because silence, too, can sing.

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The Spotify Boycott—When Music Stops Being Just Music

The boycott isn’t about money—it’s about conscience, identity, and what music is supposed to stand for.

It’s no longer just about songs. The Spotify boycott is a mirror—showing what happens when music turns into a product instead of a pulse.

For years, Spotify sold us the dream: every song, anytime, anywhere. Freedom daw. But freedom built on exploitation isn’t freedom—it’s business in disguise. And now, people are finally seeing through the noise.

The Real Issue

This isn’t only about low artist pay. It’s about what Spotify stands for. When reports came out that their CEO invested in military AI tech—people felt something crack. You don’t make peace through war machines, and you don’t fund destruction with the art that heals people.

Add to that the playlists built by algorithms, fake artists filling streams, and creators earning crumbs while executives buy new yachts. Music used to move hearts. Now it moves stock prices.

Why Artists Are Fighting Back

Musicians aren’t just being dramatic. They’re defending something sacred—meaning. You pour your soul into sound, but your song becomes part of a system that barely knows your name.

And when that system starts aligning with weapons and warfare, it stops being about music altogether. That’s why the boycott matters. It’s a protest not just for fairness, but for conscience.

What This Means for Listeners

Every stream is a vote. Every playlist is a small piece of power. Maybe it’s time to listen with purpose. Maybe it’s time to care where your songs live.

Platforms like Bandcamp or direct support models might not have the same convenience, but at least they remember that artists are humans, not background noise for your commute.

My Take

Uninstall Spotify. Boycott Spotify.

This isn’t about hating a platform—it’s about standing for what music really means. The future of sound shouldn’t belong to people who treat it like code. If they build empires from our songs while investing in war, that’s not music anymore—that’s hypocrisy on repeat.

Music was born from silence, not algorithms. It breathes, bleeds, and believes. And maybe this boycott is the first note of a new tune—the kind that reminds the world what music’s soul truly sounds like.

UNINSTALL SPOTIFY. BOYCOTT SPOTIFY.

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