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ResearchGrade 11, AY 2020–2021

Unaddressed Toxic Filipino Culture

A study of how colourism affects dark-skinned Filipinos, told through their own accounts.

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Senior high school research, Grade 11
My role
Researcher
When
Grade 11, AY 2020–2021

The situation

Colourism in the Philippines is widely recognised and rarely documented. The people living with it are seldom the ones asked about it.

What I built

Rather than a survey, we collected participants' own stories and analysed the patterns that recurred across them — the impact on wellbeing, how people coped, and what in their surroundings reinforced it.

Under the hood

The tools this is built with. You do not need to know any of them to use it — open one if you are curious what it does.

If you're considering working together

How a project actually goes

No jargon, no long contract to decode, and no stage where you are asked to approve something you cannot picture.

  1. 01

    We talk about the problem

    Not the software — the problem. What is slow, what gets forgotten, what people keep having to redo by hand. Usually one call is enough to see the shape of it.

  2. 02

    I write down what I heard

    In plain language, before any building starts, so you can correct me while it is still cheap to correct. You approve it or you don't.

  3. 03

    You see it early and often

    Working pieces, not screenshots or promises. If something is wrong, you say so while there is still time to change it.

  4. 04

    It goes live and stays supported

    Hosting, domain and setup handled. The Valley O'Ville site has been running since 2023 — I don't disappear after launch.

Have something in mind?

Tell me what is not working. If I'm not the right person for it, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

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