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Jessica Horn says it well in “Resist by Flourishing”, “well-being is not a luxury, it is an individual and collective need”. In the movement to democratize democracy in Southeast Asia, collective care is essential for the sustainability of the work we’re doing. So to kickstart the New Year, New Naratif’s team launched the third /ba·ca/ with New Naratif in January centred around collective care and how we may all embody it as we begin a new journey this 2023.

Growing Together: When was the last time you felt cared for?

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Ida Palo is a writer, media worker, and activist from Laguna, Philippines. She currently serves as Community Administrator for New Naratif and Regional Coordinator of College Editors' Guild of the Philippines - Southern Tagalog, the oldest and broadest alliance of tertiary campus publications in Asia-Pacific. As a writer, Ida brings trans revolutionary stories to life.