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Apilat Couture Spring 2021 Collection

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He’ll Always Be The Best

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Visit Original Link

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The Smashing Pumpkins - By Starlight

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listen to this while you read the olive garden story, if you want to read it

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Filipino people aren’t just limited to Filipino/Tagalog speakers or Tagalog people. Don’t think that reclaiming our identities simply mean we want to learn Tagalog or that we want to be accepted by the general Philippine society because I can guarantee that those who don’t speak English/Filipino in the Philippines are often discriminated against. 

Indigenous languages to the Philippines may one day die out and some are dying out because younger generations are being immersed into a more unified culture that erases their indigenous history. 

There are about 150+ languages in the Philippines, 19 of which are officially seen as auxiliary languages, and indigenous people who cannot keep up with the demands of the Philippine government and mainstream society. 

There are hundreds of languages, hundreds of cultures, and roughly 100 million people living in the Philippines–while including diasporic Filipinos living outside the Philippines who are part of these cultures and ethnic people.

I say this because as someone who is Filipino with Ilocano, Itneg, Bisayan, and Tagalog roots, I want to be able to reclaim every part that makes me Filipino. So if you are a Filipino person with mixed identities within the multitude of cultures across the Philippines, there is so much more that we have to try and reclaim. 

- Admin V

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I agree.

As an Ilonggo who was born and raised in Iloilo, people from regions that do not commonly speak Tagalog are most often discriminated against and reduced to being “probinsyano/probinsyana” who are too uncivilized to understand modern technology, culture, and other “city-life” things. Tbh, I hate that so much bc most of the time, these non-Tagalog-speaking Filipinos they encounter are not even half as ignorant as they first perceived them to be.

Besides the fact that they would undermine us for NOT living all our lives within the precious magical place that is Metro Manila, they also criticize us for not speaking Tagalog good enough and laugh at us for having a distinct accent when trying. 

The saddest thing is that in a lot of regions, like mine (Western Visayas), DepEd no longer requires us to study our mother tongue in its purest form - the grammar, semantics and pragmatics - but instead straight up teaches us Filipino, which is mostly Tagalog. We are basically trilinguals who treat our mother tongue as merely an informal, valueless code without origin, and structure.

I grew up all my life believing that English is the most important and the most sophisticated language, second to that is Filipino. As I believed before, Hiligaynon, among other Philippine languages, is entirely useless bc it does not help the growth of the economy, and rather hinders us to unite as a country. But does it really? Does neglecting our rich, vast cultural heritage help avoid regionalism? Is giving the superiority to the Tagalog language, whilst slowly erasing the other languages that are tightly bonded with their respective cultures and people help solve the discord among the Filipinos? Or does it alienate us from each other even more?

[thisisnotpilipinx]

Very nice, thank you for adding your comment. -admin Kim Celine

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Filipino Authors You Need to Know

Every October, we celebrate Filipino American History Month. In honor of this wonderful month long celebration, here are some of the books written by Filipino authors. The majority of these titles is starring by Filipino characters as well. In addition to featuring our rich and magnificent culture, they also tackle the diaspora, otherization most of us experience on a daily basis. Please support them, so they could continue making a difference.

Candy Gourlay — Tall Story and Shine Visit her website, and follow her on twitter.

Randy Ribay — An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes Visit his website, and follow him on twitter.

Erin Entrada Kelly — Blackbird Fly and The Land of Forgotten Girls Visit her website, and follow her on twitter.

Rin Chupeco — The Girl from the Well and The Suffering (The Girl From the Well’s sequel) Visit her website, and follow her on twitter.

Melissa de la Cruz — Fresh Off the Boat and some of her notable series are Blue Bloods, The Beauchamp Family and The Ring and the Crown. Visit her website, and follow her on twitter.

Stephanie Tromly — Trouble Is a Friend of Mine Follow her on twitter.

Kate Evangelista — No Love Allowed Visit her website Kate Evangelista and follow her on twitter Kate Evangelista.

Marivi Soliven — The Mango Bride Visit her website marivisoliven.com and follow her on twitter.

Tess Uriza Holthe — When the Elephants Dance Visit her website.

M. Evelina Galang — Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery Visit her website and follow her on twitter.

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melissa de la cruz can write ha ass awf imo

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Kay Ulanday Barrett, poet, performer, organizer, and educator, is today’s Filipino American History Month Hero! Kay was included in The Trans 100 this year for their incredible work advocating for disabled, queer, Pilipino young people, on and off campuses. They make art with the hopes that not only will it help their communities survive, but also thrive. Check out their website at http://kaybarrett.net

For Filipino American Heritage Month, we’re highlighting Fil-Ams who are carrying on a proud legacy of activism & organizing. Who’s your hero?

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Wata of Boris.

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Galaxie 500 doing an in store in Amsterdam in 1989 

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my bloody valentine and lush

[thisisnotpilipinx]

Hello everyone! As stated a long time ago before my hiatus, TINP is looking to expand our team! Currently, we have 4 admins and 2 moderators running the blog! We would like for more voices to be heard as well as content to be posted and are looking for applicants ages 18 years or older to apply. There is still so much I hope to do for this blog but having more hands helping out would be great. Please apply if you feel up to the task! - Admin V

Hey everyone! I have the same application as before but if you have filled it out before, I would urge you to fill it out again. Just some quick tidbits:

As of July/25/2015, there is no intended deadline for this application but we hope to get as many people on board as possible

You must be 18 years or older to apply

Mods/Admins are two different roles and the application will tell you the differences

We are looking for Filipinxs who are NOT from the USA! However saying this, it won’t hurt your chances if you are. We have been asked in the past to have mods/admins who are from the Philippines so we hope to get some different voices in regards to where our Filipinxs are from. Also, the current team is primarily FilAms so we would like more voices.

If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to our ask box or to me, Admin V, at filocano

Thanks! We hope to hear from y’all soon!

- Admin V

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I approve

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Akiko Matsuura | PRE and The Big Pink

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The Big Pink // Dominos

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Jeff Schroeder | Smashing Pumpkins