#pinay pride

[of-ether]

just know, i think about his a lot 🇵🇭

[whitepinoy]

I drew this a couple of years ago for a friend who wanted to give their parents a gift for their anniversary. They gave me 10 bucks.

[brenli]

I wish I could tell you that you are no child of pain, but you have my blood in your veins, and trouble’s a family trait.

Maria Porkalob, ‘Dragon Lady’

[brenli]

😍😍😍

[aswangnibbles]

Being a Filipina American means being postcolonial--after colonization, but certainly not over colonization....'Decolonization is a psychological and physical process that enables the colonized to understand and overcome the depths of alienation and marginalization caused by colonization. By transforming consciousness through the reclamation of one's cultural self and the recovery and healing of traumatic memory, the colonized can become agents of their own destiny...' ...Being mestiza means struggling between physical and metaphysical cultural borders, struggling to maintain a consistent and coherent identity despite the fact that the dominant culture attempts to disaggregate you...You personify the colonizer at the same time that you are colonized; you participate in the colonization of yourself; and...you invoke the 'legacy of the ilustrados' grounded in elitist structures of Spanish colonialism. You embody privilege, which is considered either detestable or enviable--and sometimes both at once....your enviable status derives from privilege and marks you as complicit in hegemonic structures of racial and economic oppression...Through the process of decolonization, you come to realize that the aspects of your identity that you had long taken for granted are actually tied to global discourses of colonial imperialism. As you recover colonial history, you are startled at how easily it explains pieces of your life...You come to understand that your life, your family, your day-to-day actions that were once so personal are actually part and parcel of particular social constructions of race, gender, class, and nation. You inherit these structures by virtue of being born. And then--only after processing painful emotions, uncovering relevant historical context, and reocognizing your relationship to others in the trajectory of the past and present--you begin to comprehend your life. You are exhausted. But now you are ready to begin (p. 32-34).

Melinda L. de Jesus, ‘Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory

[brenli]

🌟🌟🌟☀️KNOW YOUR ROOTS☀️🌟🌟🌟

[brenli]

💛Tinikling Finale💛 FYA Drill Team for Pista sa Nayon 2017 at Seward Park Amphitheater in Seattle, WA.

[brenli]

💛Tinikling Pt. 3💛 FYA Drill Team for Pista sa Nayon 2017 at Seward Park Amphitheater in Seattle, WA.