reblog to save a life
My cousin Sioban has her own practice now and she’s like, a respectable upstanding citizen and not at all a ball of creative garbage juice like me
Boosting for black women and girls who need therapy
this is how i found my therapist and i’m so happy
um guys?
canada is currently considering banning imidacloprid, which is apparently “one of the most widely used bee-killing pesticides in the world”. this seems pretty huge, so if you’ve got two seconds, add your name to the list! as of posting this link, they need just over 8,000 more signatures by february 21!
I DON’T CARE IF YOU’RE AMERICAN PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO THAT OTHER CANADIAN USERS CAN SEE IT
COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME
europeans: *throws bananas at black athletes and politicians in their countries*
europeans: you americans are so obsessed with race… so strange….
Britain: *harasses the fuck out prince harry’s gf meghan markle for being a biracial black woman despite being white passing*
Britain: right? I don’t get this whole “race” thing Americans got going on
Europeans: pissed off about immigration in their countries
Europeans: *colonized the whole FUCKING world*
Australians: *supports the ‘stop the boats campaign’. let’s one nation back in. closed refugee detention centres and displaced the people*
Australians: we’re so tolerant and multicultural. idk y america has such an issue with race.
Canadians: *experience a rise in hate crimes against Muslim Canadians. Forced indigenous peoples off their land and into the horrific residential school system. Has a higher incarceration rate for poc than white people.*
Canadians: we’re way better and more tolerant up here than America. Why can’t they just learn from us.
Yo when are y’all gonna realize it’s not just one country and we as a species need to fix it cause we all fucked up?
we as a species? nah, Y’ALL as a species. there were 6 continents minding the fuck out of their own business until white Europeans decided to fuck that up for everybody.
Y'all I just woke up to my whole community freaking out over an INCOMING MISSILE THREAT
I’d like y'all to take a step back and fucking think about how incompetent and inane the people running this country are when something like this can happen
For those who don’t know, it literally happened about 20 min ago, there was a message broadcast saying that a Korean missile was inbound for Hawaii
I was getting so many freaked out messages and people were crying and people thought they were about to DIE
The only reason me& my family were skeptical was because the damn bomb siren by my house was not going off
Then around 20 min later we got this message
The fucking incompetents of the people who “accidentally” sent this alert (I assume civil defense)
This isn’t just some fucking “mistake” as they put it, it’s probably as bad of a “mistake” as you can make. When people are crying and calling me and asking if it’s gunna be okay and fucking confessing things to me before they are (to their knowledge) about to die, then only are to find out the multiple alerts are just “mistakes” THATS A HUGE FUCKING PROBLEM
IM SICK AND TIRED OF THE AMERICAN FORCES GETTING A PASS ON THEIR BULLSHIT BECAUSE IT MEANS THIS SHIT CAN HAPPEN
IT MEANS THAT THIS SHIT HAPPENED AROUND HALF AN HOUR AGO AND I HAVENT SEEN ANY OFFICIAL APOLGIES OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM THE MILITARY, CIVIL DEFENSE, OR THE GOVERNMENT BESIDES A SIMPLE MESSAGE READING “ it was a mistake”
There isn’t even a “breaking news” section on YouTube for fucks sake
Just goes to show that Hawaii is thought of as nothing but land
No culture, no people, to America it’s just land valuable enough to protect for its convenience, but the people mean nothing
Don’t worry America, we forgive you for illegally annexing us, and killing our culture, and our native people, and using our land for money, and doing your own uranium bomb testing right here over our sacred mountain and our delicate watershed, so thanks for threatening us with nuclear bombs, fucking thanks
heres some random updates so you can get a grasp on whats happening here in the philippines:
does anyone have any news sources and dates for people to be better informed??
hiya i made that post on mobile so i wasnt able to add links but here are some sources on whats been happening in the ph for the last few months:
house of representatives votes to give commission on human rights a budget of $20 for the WHOLE YEAR
im p sure i missed a lot since something bad happens literally EVERYDAY so like feel free to add more
after watching Coco, I kinda want to see an animated film about the Philippines now :p
8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Delano Grape Strike
It’s Labor Day Weekend in the U.S.! So here’s a #Throwback video on one of the most significant labor rights movements in the history of the United States. Watch and learn more about the historic Delano Grape Strike! 🍇✊
September 8, 2017, will also mark the 52nd anniversary of the beginning of the grape strike. Join the Filipino American community in this year’s Delano Manongs Tour & Tribute! RSVP today at http://bit.ly/2woSZi2
Delano Manongs Tour & Tribute 2017
Date: Saturday, September 9th, 12pm Filipino Community Hall 1457 Glenwood Ave, Delano, CA 93215
For more information, contact my dear friend Jay Page (jay@leadfilipino.org)
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I’m producing and directing a short coming-of-age drama film for my thesis, titled ‘Marisol’.
Summary: Set in Western Sydney, a teenage Filipina immigrant - Marisol - lives with her aging lola (‘grandmother’). Along with her childhood bestfriend-turned-lover, Danica, she processes her feelings of place and memory after she receives a postcard from her estranged mother back in her homeland.
This came from a concept I’ve been dreaming of for years. As a queer Filipina from immigrant parents, it also comes from personal stories of memory, connection and diaspora.
I would really appreciate it if you could donate whatever you can, if you can! I also would appreciate if you could just share this around. Your enthusiasm and support of my dreams means the world to me.
Wondering how to celebrate Filipino-American History Month? Why not make history yourself?
Register NOW for Kabataan Magkaisa 2! Join Filipino youth from across the country to build community, celebrate our heritage, and act on the issues that matter to us most. PLUS, be part of the historic launch of the Kabataan Alliance–a national alliance of Filipino youth and students.
Kumilos na! History Is in Our Hands 🇵🇭☀️✋🏽
Register here: tinyurl.com/KMCON2017 For more info: kabataanalliance.org
Video by: Ossian Mendoza, Motion Graphic Designer (@ossianmendoza) | EL Teodoro, Anakbayan New York (@elteodoro)
FB LINK: https://www.facebook.com/kabataanmagkaisa/videos/802131566630807/
Wondering how to celebrate Filipino-American History Month? Why not make history yourself?
Register NOW for Kabataan Magkaisa 2! Join Filipino youth from across the country to build community, celebrate our heritage, and act on the issues that matter to us most. PLUS, be part of the historic launch of the Kabataan Alliance--a national alliance of Filipino youth and students.
Kumilos na! History Is in Our Hands 🇵🇭☀️✋🏽
Register here: tinyurl.com/KMCON2017 For more info: kabataanalliance.org
Video by: Ossian Mendoza, Motion Graphic Designer (@ossianmendoza) | EL Teodoro, Anakbayan New York (@elteodoro)
FB LINK: https://www.facebook.com/kabataanmagkaisa/videos/802131566630807/
Jonah Deocampo grew up in Los Angeles in the 1990s, one of the estimated 3 million members of the Filipino diaspora in the United States. At 15, he got involved with Filipino street gangs, which eventually led to an arrest for armed robbery. At that point — on what he describes as the “advice” of a judge — he joined the Marines.
Today, he’s Bambu DePistola: a community activist and rapper with a committed following in underground hip-hop circles. Bambu’s message is uncompromising — for some, uncomfortably so — and he’s begun to attract more widespread attention through opening shows for Common and collaborating with Killer Mike of Run The Jewels.
Bambu spoke with NPR’s Michel Martin about his youth in LA, why hip-hop appealed to him as the child of immigrants and how he’s responded to critics who say his music is too negative. Hear their full conversation at the audio link, and read on for an edited transcript.
Michel Martin: Let’s start with the art. Did you grow up thinking of yourself as an artist, as a rapper?
Bambu: No, for me, especially, it just started with rapping about the gang and the neighborhood and the things we were doing, and reflecting that back to the neighborhood homies. And we would freestyle — where you just improv — and I found that I had a knack for that, and I practiced over and over again. It wasn’t until I got out of the military that I really pursued it as a career.
To acknowledge Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I think we should spread the word that the word Hapa should be reserved only for mixed race Hawai'ians. Hijacking a word that represents a specific group of people is appropriation.
just like a casual psa: as a filipino born and raised in the philippines, nothing pisses me off more than my ethnicity being collectively called “filipinx” like. we are not latinxs whose language is gendered or whose language history has led to the wide acceptance of the use of “latinxs”. filipino is a gender neutral language. we don’t use “she” or “he” for pronouns, we simply use “siya”. we don’t use the words “wife” or “husband”, we simply use “asawa”. FILIPINO IS A GENDER NEUTRAL LANGUAGE. stop applying western standards to make up some new collective term for filipinos. our identity as a people is fucked enough as it is with colonial mentality. nobody from the philippines actually uses “filipinx” in reference to themselves. using “-x” as a suffix in an attempt to be gender neutral while referring to my ethnicity as a whole does more harm than good bc it makes it seem like my own language is not enough when it, in fact, is. why make up a new term under the guise of gender neutrality when the language itself is already gender neutral to begin with? it doesn’t make sense.
if you wanna identify as “filipinx” bc of diasporia, that’s cool. that’s for YOU. but all i ask is to not use it to collectively refer to my ethnicity as a whole. it feeds into the colonial mentality that is so ingrained in our culture, where many filipinos conform to western standards in everything, from language to fashion to beauty, and it needs to end. we don’t need westerners making it harder for us to embrace ourselves. it’s hard enough as it is.
back in 2015, tumblr made me start using “filipinx” to refer to my people under the guise of gender neutrality. this made me forget this small but significant part of my own culture. it made me forget my own language. thank god there were people who made me stop and think and get out of the western mentality that is so deeply ingrained in me by society. what i don’t understand is how this trend is still being used to this day.
just. please. it’s 2017. call us who we are: filipino.
and to further my point, this has been already discussed here. if you’re one of the people still using ‘filipinx’ as a blanket term for my entire ethnicity, i beg you to read the link and understand.
TL;DR: please do not refer to all filipinos as “filipnx/pilipinx,” that’s not how our language works.
please DO use filipinx or pilipinx to refer to an individual who has stated that they’re comfortable with the word.
#Repost @lanewilcken ・・・ HAPPY DEATH of MAGELLAN DAY. 496 years ago today, the Mactan chieftain Lapu-Lapu & his men killed Magellan & drove off the rest of the Spaniards. Unfortunately this was not the end of the Spanish influence in our islands. Now nearly 500 years of cultural genocide later, it is our responsibility to reclaim our ancestral traditions & identity. (FYI: I recolored this photo to make their headbands and bahag RED the color of a Warrior’s prowess. In the original painting they were wearing white which would have been inappropriate since it was reserved for funerals and mourning.) . <<◇>><<◇>><<◇>><<◇>><<◇>><<◇>><<◇>> #KATAOlivingtraditions #FilipinoTattoosAncienttoModern #ForgottenChildrenofMaui <<◇>><<◇>><<◇>><<◇>><<◇>><<◇>><<◇>>
On April 29, 2017, the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) and the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), and Kapit Bisig Kabataan Network (KBKN) will hold the 2nd Annual LAKAD 5k for Peace walkathon fundraiser in Los Angeles. Last year, we were able to raise over $6,000 to help build a water system that provides water to over 300 Talaingod Manobo, a Lumad (indigenous) group from Mindanao, Philippines.
The Talaingod Manobo and other Lumads are building schools and improving their livelihood all while resisting multinational mining and logging corporations encroaching on their ancestral land. The 47 year civil war between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has also affected the Lumad as the Armed Forces of the Philippines have wrongfully tagged Lumad environmental and indigenous rights activists as “NPA rebels,” targeting them for militarization, harassment, and political killings. Now more than ever, the success of the GRP-NDFP peace talks and socio-economic reforms would mean upholding human rights and an end of hostilities against the Lumad communities caught in the armed conflict. The GRP-NDFP Peace Talks have to succeed in order for the Lumad and all Filipinos to live in a country where peace, justice, and human dignity are upheld.
The funds raised this year will go towards Salupongan Schools and promoting Peace and Justice in the Philippines through the JustPeacePH and Kababayan4Change platforms.
Register today at: tinyurl.com/Lakad5k2017 Online payment & donation: tinyurl.com/Lakad5kfees
DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 29, 2017 9:00AM-1:00PM
VENUE: La Canada United Methodist Church 104 Berkshire Pl La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
PROGRAM: 9:00AM: Registration 10:00AM: Program 10:15-12:00PM: Walk 12:00-1:00PM: Closing
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Salupongan Ta Tanu Igakanugon is an alliance of Talaingod Manobo tribes that first came together in 1993, to defend their ancestral lands against mining companies. The alliance has helped lead the formation of Salupongan Schools, which emphasize indigenous knowledge and organic agriculture, besides accredited educational standards. For more information about the schools, please visit Salupongan International and http://salupongan.org/.
Just Peace PH is an international platform which supports the Philippine peace process. It has special emphasis in reaching out to individuals, organizations and institutions which have advocacies on peace and issue-based people’s concerns in various capacities outside of the country. In particular, JustPeacePH aims to seek support from individuals and organizations in multilateral organizations, people’s organizations, civil society organizations, academia, development institutions as well as governments.
Kababayan4Change is a broad international platform for Filipinos abroad to unite around the people’s demands and voice their own individual and collective concerns and aspirations. Kababayan4Change aims to arouse, organize and mobilize all Filipinos, at home and abroad, to press for the people’s demands spelled out in the 15-point “Program for Change” from the National People’s Summit held in June 2016.
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The walk is 5K in length, mostly flat but with one steep incline, and gradual incline for about one third of the way. Water and nurses stations will be available along the route; fruits and snacks will be available at the end.
There will be a brief program in an outdoor amphitheater with seating, before the walk. Most of the event will be outdoors, but we will serve snacks and host a photo exhibit in an indoor daycare center.
A parking lot and restrooms are at the daycare center and church, which is accessible through wheelchair ramps. There will be gender neutral and gender-segregated restrooms.
We highly encourage all participants to avoid using scented products (e.g., in perfumes, lotions, hair gel, deodorant, fabric softener, dryer sheets, etc.) before coming to the event. To learn more about chemical sensitivities:
We are working on making the event more accessible and more information will be forthcoming.
NAFCON SoCal: email sc@nafoncusa.org | website: nafconusa.org | facebook: nafcon socal
On April 29, 2017, the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) and the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), and Kapit Bisig Kabataan Network (KBKN) will hold the 2nd Annual LAKAD 5k for Peace walkathon fundraiser in Los Angeles. Last year, we were able to raise over $6,000 to help build a water system that provides water to over 300 Talaingod Manobo, a Lumad (indigenous) group from Mindanao, Philippines.
The Talaingod Manobo and other Lumads are building schools and improving their livelihood all while resisting multinational mining and logging corporations encroaching on their ancestral land. The 47 year civil war between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has also affected the Lumad as the Armed Forces of the Philippines have wrongfully tagged Lumad environmental and indigenous rights activists as “NPA rebels,” targeting them for militarization, harassment, and political killings. Now more than ever, the success of the GRP-NDFP peace talks and socio-economic reforms would mean upholding human rights and an end of hostilities against the Lumad communities caught in the armed conflict. The GRP-NDFP Peace Talks have to succeed in order for the Lumad and all Filipinos to live in a country where peace, justice, and human dignity are upheld.
The funds raised this year will go towards Salupongan Schools and promoting Peace and Justice in the Philippines through the JustPeacePH and Kababayan4Change platforms.
Register today at: tinyurl.com/Lakad5k2017 Online payment & donation: tinyurl.com/Lakad5kfees
DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 29, 2017 9:00AM-1:00PM
VENUE: La Canada United Methodist Church 104 Berkshire Pl La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
PROGRAM: 9:00AM: Registration 10:00AM: Program 10:15-12:00PM: Walk 12:00-1:00PM: Closing
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Salupongan Ta Tanu Igakanugon is an alliance of Talaingod Manobo tribes that first came together in 1993, to defend their ancestral lands against mining companies. The alliance has helped lead the formation of Salupongan Schools, which emphasize indigenous knowledge and organic agriculture, besides accredited educational standards. For more information about the schools, please visit Salupongan International and http://salupongan.org/.
Just Peace PH is an international platform which supports the Philippine peace process. It has special emphasis in reaching out to individuals, organizations and institutions which have advocacies on peace and issue-based people’s concerns in various capacities outside of the country. In particular, JustPeacePH aims to seek support from individuals and organizations in multilateral organizations, people’s organizations, civil society organizations, academia, development institutions as well as governments.
Kababayan4Change is a broad international platform for Filipinos abroad to unite around the people’s demands and voice their own individual and collective concerns and aspirations. Kababayan4Change aims to arouse, organize and mobilize all Filipinos, at home and abroad, to press for the people’s demands spelled out in the 15-point “Program for Change” from the National People’s Summit held in June 2016.
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The walk is 5K in length, mostly flat but with one steep incline, and gradual incline for about one third of the way. Water and nurses stations will be available along the route; fruits and snacks will be available at the end.
There will be a brief program in an outdoor amphitheater with seating, before the walk. Most of the event will be outdoors, but we will serve snacks and host a photo exhibit in an indoor daycare center.
A parking lot and restrooms are at the daycare center and church, which is accessible through wheelchair ramps. There will be gender neutral and gender-segregated restrooms.
We highly encourage all participants to avoid using scented products (e.g., in perfumes, lotions, hair gel, deodorant, fabric softener, dryer sheets, etc.) before coming to the event. To learn more about chemical sensitivities:
We are working on making the event more accessible and more information will be forthcoming.
NAFCON SoCal: email sc@nafoncusa.org | website: nafconusa.org | facebook: nafcon socal
