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@no-longer-solo
What do you do after being in the ICU for three days? Cook a huge ass pot of kare kare for your favorite nieces and nephews #fuckcancer #merrychristmas https://www.instagram.com/p/B6bYbE8g_21afRDxwNiwF9CpRGdEzLa0Ab3hK40/?igshid=tn5y0jcp2jpf
âI will not cause pain without allowing something new to be bornâ Isaiah 66:9. (at Sacramento, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6YipPWA5l9tY-9jOAg98Ojq2O7Deqkupy-YHA0/?igshid=b5rmcta51czj
Chemo cycle 1 (again) in photos. I feel the urge to document everything but try not to think too deeply about why. Maybe itâs because photos say everything I canât. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5wuwL1Ajor7Cle6aOVyg5lHVfUQtfrwgXDzGQ0/?igshid=1gapo6jerfmg6
Mom and 3 out of 4 grandkids just before leaving to start her first round of chemo. The initial infusion will take seven hours. Good energy and prayers needed. And smiles, lots and lots of little smiles â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž https://www.instagram.com/p/B5vQ9e6AwQXq102ywXZ-hfMBKUpwOblgZpH19Y0/?igshid=7lxojj9etwpx
No one in the world can both frustrate and astonish me at the same time as my mom. One minute sheâs infuriatingly stubborn and almost callously pragmatic and the next sheâs sweetly mischievous or disarmingly gentle. Today before her appointment to re-insert her port, she asked for a selfie. So here we are in the hospital waiting room - three generations saying fuck your cancer. (at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5lFl4UgMOiX9HQZ_4uYJu__u772v6gJOFCaEI0/?igshid=n4fcj0xmiil3
poem to self. and other insecure women.
look at you youâre so beautiful when you laugh at night i swear you look like you could swallow the stars or atleast swallow the scars and stories of the women who came before you. see how your hair torments the sky thick curls that blot out the sun eclipsing the city into the hue of your grandfathers midnight skin. your father wanted to name you after a wet season he wanted to explain why the rain falls; just so that it can taste your skin dip into your collar bone drip down your shoulder blades and on the rare occasions when no one is looking and your head is tilted back, rush into your open mouth. for women like you death comes in the body of a lustful man, and the earth canât wait to bury itself inside you. look at you, cloaked in godâs skin. only in his name could you exist so bright.
-Warsan Shire
Thieves Steal Bust of Philippinesâ National Hero Jose Rizal Off Pedestal
Chicagoâs Rizal Heritage Center is missing an important part of its center: the bust of its revered namesake patriot, Dr. Jose Rizal.
Thieves last month made off with the head of the famed Rizal, a 19th Century physician and writer who advocated peaceful reform of Spainâs rule over the Philippines.
Witnesses say they saw six people steal the bust off a pedestal in the hours after the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup on June 16. The six people got into two cars and sped off.
Now, nearly three weeks later, the Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago is asking for the thieves to return it. It had been displayed outside the Rizal Heritage Center at 1332 W. Irving Park Road.
âThis is an iconic symbol of our Rizal Center heritage and the national hero of the Philippines,â said council president Dr. Rufino Crisostomo, who is accepting donations for repairs or a replacement.
FACC members raised $40,000 between 1990-1992 to have the bust made in the Philippines and installed at the Chicago community center.
The bust went missing between midnight and 1 a.m. on June 16, a few hours after the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup.
The theft is even more pronounced in the Filipino American community because it happened the week of the patriotâs birthday on June 19, and marred the centerâs celebrations. Crisostomo recalls their custom of placing flowers on the bust and the floor at its pedestal in honor of Rizal.
âOnly now, we canât,â Crisostomo said.
Police said the case is still open and under investigation.
The FACC is accepting donations towards a replacement. As of Monday afternoon, about $900 had been raised.
âNone of us are millionaires,â Crisostomo said. âBut if we donât protest this kind of incident, what kind of dignity would we have as Filipinos? We wonât have any dignity at all.â
Rizal was born June 19, 1861, to wealthy landowners. He was educated in Manila and Europe, where he wrote the two novels Noli me Tangere (âThe Social Cancerâ) and El Filibusterismo (âThe Reign of Greedâ). He returned to Manila and co-founded the nonviolent reform society La Liga Filipina.
On Dec. 30, 1896, while in exile in Dapitan, a city on the island of Mindanao, he penned the poem Mi Ulimo Adios (âMy Last Farewellâ) and hid it inside an oil lamp inside his cell. He was executed by firing squad in the morning. Two years later, governance of the Philippines transferred from Spain to the United States.
The center has a library of Rizal memorabilia, but the worldâs largest collection of Rizal artifacts is at the Newberry Library, where a bust of the Philippine patriot is on display in the Special Collections Reading Room.
Crisostomo is considering 3-D printing as a replacement. To donate, call Crisostomo at 312-402-4191 or the center, 773-281-1212.
Dr. Jose Rizal visited Chicago, Illinois on May 11, 1888 enroute to New York City. He arrived in Chicago at 8:14 a.m. He visited places of interests and left the City on the same day at 8:25 p.m.
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Dr. Rufino Crisostomo, president of the Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago, points to where the bust of Philippine patriot Dr. Jose Rizal would have been had it not been stolen from its pedestal in the early morning of June 16, the day after the Chicago Blackhawks won the 2015 Stanley Cup. Crisostomo, FACC president, pleads for the culprits to return the bust, and is accepting donations for repairs or a replacement. [DNAinfo/Yvonne Hortillo]
A bust of Philippine patriot Dr. Jose Rizal is kept at the Newberry Libraryâs Special Collections Reading Room. The Newberry keeps the worldâs largest collection of Rizal memorabilia. [DNAinfo/Yvonne Hortillo]
Crazy!Â
#love
There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger.
Lao Tzu (via thecalminside)
APPEAL FOR URGENT ACTION: SAVE THE LIFE OF FILIPINA MARY JANE VELOSO!Â
STOP THE EXECUTIONS IN INDONESIA!
Mary Jane Veloso is a 30-year-old Filipina mother-of-two sentenced to death by the Indonesian Supreme Court in April 2010 for drug trafficking.
Velosoâs case was submitted for judicial review but her appeal was rejected by the Indonesian Supreme Court last March 26, 2014. News reports state that Indonesia is preparing to transfer Veloso from the city of Yogyakarta to the maximum security prison in Nusakambangan Island of Central Java to await execution by firing squad.
Veloso was a domestic worker in Dubai from 2009 to 2010. She left Dubai and came back to the Philippines after her employer attempted to rape her. On April 22, 2010, she was illegally recruited by her kinakapatid (daughter of her godfather) to work as a domestic worker in Malaysia. When she arrived in Kuala Lumpur, the same person told her that the job was not available anymore and that she would instead be transferred to Indonesia. It was there that she found out that she was tricked into carrying luggage containing 2.6 kilos of heroin.
The Indonesian government plans to execute 10 convicted foreign drug traffickers, including Veloso, all at once. Their cases have drawn international flak for Indonesian Pres. Joko Widodo after he rejected pleas by the United Nations and various governments for their clemency.
Intersectionality
is the undercurrent theme of this blog. Perhaps this is a new concept. If so, here are some things to get started:Â
KimberlĂ© Crenshaw (who coined the term in 1989)  on intersectionality: âI wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that anyone could use.â (source)
âIntersectionality promotes an understanding of human beings as shaped by the interaction of different social locations (e.g., âraceâ/ethnicity, Indigeneity,gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion). These interactions occur within a context of connected systems and structures of power (e.g., laws, policies, state governments and other political and economic unions, religious institutions, media). Through such processes, interdependent forms of privilege and oppression shaped by colonialism, imperialism, racism, homophobia, ableism and patriarchy are created.Â
PUT SIMPLY: According to an intersectionality perspective, inequities are never the result of single, distinct factors. Rather, they are the outcome of intersections of different social locations, power relations and experiences.â (source)
Read more things! There are a lot. Here are just a few:
1: Kimberlé Crenshaw on intersectionality in NewStatesman 2:  USCB Center For New Racial Studies 3.  Interview with bell hooks in Common Struggle 4. Lecture by bell hooks at the New College of Florida 5. The Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy
Lighting a candle for Auntie Leah and saying a prayer every night till her memorial. She would have loved the mass that I went to for Good Friday. I miss you, auntie. Be at peace.
Open a book this minute and start reading. Donât move until youâve reached page fifty. Until youâve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
Carol Shields, The Republic of Love (via purplebuddhaproject)
