One of Time’s Up Ateneo’s (TUA) favorite feminist scholars, Sara Ahmed, mentioned TUA in her new book! Aaaaaaah!!!
Entitled No is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining, the book was featured in this article. The said article has an excerpt from the book which says:
We hear each other scratching away, ‘little birds’. To hear with a feminist ear is to hear that sound as labour. Complaint activism can involve changing the addressee: we address each other. Sometimes we do so literally, by writing each other letters or postcards. I think of actions undertaken by Time’s Up Ateneo (TUA), which was a coalition of students, faculty, and alumni from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, that began with an on-campus protest against sexual violence and impunity on 15 October, 2019. Three years later, TUA honoured the protesters by offering flowers at the protest site and distributing postcards to the Ateneo community and inviting them to write to survivors of sexual abuse. These postcards were published on social media and read out loud. One, from Jasmine, begins with: ‘One day you will celebrate a victory. It won’t be exactly what you want it to be, but it will be enough. It will fill your life with meaning.’
Ahmed also mentions TUA in this post, which is “a lecture delivered for the Transform Theory, Policy, and Practice: Decolonise Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Higher Education (HE) conference, Westminster University on February 6, 2026”. In the article she also links to TUA’s postcards campaign.
The postcard she was referring to in the excerpt is this:
The postcards can be viewed on TUA’s website and Instagram.
TUA is very honored for being mentioned by such a prestigious scholar. It reminds us how important our advocacy is. To survivors out there, we believe in you and we are here for you.
About Time’s Up Ateneo
Time’s Up Ateneo (TUA) is a community of survivors and advocates fighting against sexual violence and impunity in Ateneo de Manila and beyond. TUA envisions itself as both a psychosocial support system and an advocacy group. As a community, TUA has support groups for survivors and advocates, conducts community care activities, as well as may provide referrals for further psychosocial and legal support.
TUA was founded on Oct. 17, 2019, which was right after the Oct. 15, 2019 protest in Ateneo de Manila where around 200 students, alumni, teachers, and parents gathered in the campus to protest against sexual violence and impunity in the university. TUA continued to stage several protests after that. The collective then developed a trauma-informed and survivor-centered advocacy work, and TUA’s efforts include pushing for institutional reforms, supporting survivors and advocates, and calling for a community approach to addressing sexual violence.
Time’s Up Ateneo is independent from Ateneo de Manila. TUA created the organization in response to Ateneo de Manila’s failures in addressing the issue of sexual violence in its campus. Please do not credit TUA’s work to Ateneo de Manila.
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