BAGUIO CITY, Philippines—A lighter skinned and comely woman may be the features of heroine Gabriela Silang, who is associated with feminist activism. A team of fine arts students and volunteer ...

Why Gabriela? The name comes from the Filipino hero Gabriela Silang, Diego Silang’s wife, who fought against the Spaniards during the Philippine revolution. That Gabriela proved herself a great ...

The medieval French had Joan of Arc, who battled the English. And we had Gabriela Silang, the first in a long line of insurgent Filipinas, who led the Ilocanos in an armed revolt against the ...

There’s one image that I always remember from primary school. Gabriela Silang on a horse, holding up a large blade or bolo. It was in a school textbook and a standard representation of the first ...