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The #Filipina is not for you / If you cannot handle her claws.

“To Love as #Aswang,” I love posting this poem on the regular, so’s you know what I’m all about. 

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#BrownGirl #Mixtape #Poem #Pinay #allpinayeverything

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#currentlyreading an advance reader copy of "America is Not the Heart" by Elaine Castillo. It's a debut novel written by a Filipina American centered around three generations of filipina women. It occurs during and after Philippine martial law in the Marcos era and in San Francisco. I'm absolutely in love with this #novel! I never read a better prologue. This #book is so dynamic, rich, and captivating. As a filam, i connect to this stupendous work and see my family in it as well. And isn't the #bookcover just striking!? I wish I could share excerpts but i can't do that with an #ARC. I wanna buy a copy when it launches on April 3rd and tell everyone about it. I can tell that this tome will mean a lot to me and i haven't hit page 40 yet. I'm definitely gonna staff pick it. I wouldn't have discovered this book if i wasn't working at a bookstore. So grateful for this opportunity. Thank you @vikingbooks for publishing this! As a Pinay who rarely sees herself in the page, I'm ecstatic to feel so connected and acknowledged. The writing is beautiful and I'm learning so much. #elainecastillo you are amazing. #bookstagram #allpinayeverything #filam #filipino #debutnovel

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Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017)

Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.

The fifth collection from Oakland poet Barbara Jane Reyes, in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Invocation to Daughters is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish, Reyes unleashes this colonized tongue against sexualized and racialized violence towards Pinay women. With its meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Invocation to Daughters is a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity.

"Against violence against women, Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs, jumping off Audre Lorde's 'the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house,' Invocation to Daughters recombines registers––prayers, pleas and elegy––braiding a trilingual triple-threat, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street, utterance with erasure, the prose sentence with the liminal. Invocation to Daughters reminds me of the 70's in the East Bay, when Jessica Hagedorn met Ntozake Shange and ignited a green flash seen from horizon to horizon. Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area's incendiary voices."––Sesshu Foster

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On Teaching Filipina Literature

Texts pictured above are this course’s required readings: [top row, L-R] M. Evelina Galang, One Tribe. Erin Entrada Kelly, The Land of Forgotten Girls. Lynda Barry, One! Hundred! Demons! [bo…

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Letters to a Young Brown Girl is coming in September.

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Thanks to the gracious @thecarbonbasedmistake, I and May will be tabling at this awesome zine fest for FREE! We will be representing @lakaszine for @gabrielanewyork, so come to queens on Saturday and check out our zines and learn more about our org! The line-up looks great and I'm extremely excited for my dear friend @agnesonduty newest zine they'll be debuting! Admission is free too. I'm ecstatic for this opportunity. I LOVE zine fairs and to be supporting my beloved org, kasamas, and the movement triples my glee. I wish I signed up sooner so I'd have time to craft & print my own new zine, BUT i do have something to give. Getting them ready now 😊 There might still be free tables available, just contact @thecarbonbasedmistake, hope to see you there! GABRIELA New York is a mass-based women’s organization serving New York City and its surrounding areas. We connect the Filipino diaspora to the women’s struggle in the Philippines. We are women of Philippine descent, including those who are migrants, immigrants and US-born. We recognize Filipino women of mixed heritage and adoptees. GABRIELA New York is a LGBTQI-(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, and Intersex) friendly organization that is inclusive of transgender people of Philippine descent. #pinay #allpinayeverything #filipina #zine #Repost @thecarbonbasedmistake • • • • • LAKAS ZINE will be at the Zine Fest this Saturday! + LAKAS, a project of GABRIELA New York (https://gabrielanewyork.org), is a zine dedicated to uplifting the stories and deepening the discourse and analysis of Filipina women in the U.S. + SATURDAY 26th 2019 | 6pm to 10pm 48-20 Skillman Avenue | Queens NY SANGERHALL.COM + + + #zines #zinesters #zinefest #queens #queensny #sunnysidequeens (at Sanger Hall Page) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCL1dNnz_s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m7bgvtjv5ot0

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