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Trans waitress from Brooklyn is 1st Miss Gorg: ‘Different is beautiful’
By Cristina DC Pastor A waitress from Brooklyn is the first winner of the Miss Gorg pageant created to promote acceptance of transgender women, and, as advanced by the organizers, “to celebrate their empowerment.” Her crown slipped and fell on the stage, but Alana Dillon, 21, dismissed the mishap, preferring to call it “my good […]
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Miss Gorg pageant seeks to promote accomplishments of trans women: organizers
Miss Gorg 2018, a beauty and personality search for gay men and transgender women will launch in New York on March 31 in celebration of the International Transgender Day of Visibility. “It’s a platform that lifts our community to a higher level,” said Peche Di, a Thailand-born transgender model, actress, videographer and founder of Trans […]
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Voices of a movement in ‘A Time to Rise’
By Renee Macalino Rutledge From our first wave of immigrants, the manongs of the 1920s and ’30s who risked their jobs and safety fighting exploitative labor conditions on West Coast farms, Filipinos have been politically active in the U.S. Yet the dominant image of the passively assimilated Filipino prevails. “A Time to Rise: Collective Memoirs […]
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PIDCI blames ex-treasurer, reveals no one wants to be Grand Marshal because of lawsuit
By Cristina DC Pastor The Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. washed its hands off accusations it did not file tax returns for four years, stating its former treasurer, Violeta Manarang-McGough, had been delinquent in filing returns for the period from 2013 to 2016. In court papers filed January 2, 2017, PIDCI claimed it was actually […]
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Why would some of us not want to identify as Filipino?
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. I met Roger, an adopted American-born Filipino, in an unusual manner. He saw my name when he googled writers of Filipino descent who’ve lived in the U.S. for a long time. He reached out. We agreed to meet at a nearby Thai restaurant In our society in this part of […]
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17 years ago, I could have been a teenage mother
By Jonna Baldres #MeToo It will be 20 years in November and it still affects me to this day — how I view society, relationships, people, trust, how I deal with life in all aspects. It’s what actually prompted me to be an activist. It actually took me days to finally post this since I […]
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#metoo: Filipino women call for an end to sex abuse
By Cristina DC Pastor #metoo Two short words that now wield power in a society shattered by the actions of just one man. Or so we thought. Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s pattern of sexual assault and harassment is just one story although it has psychologically bruised at least 40 women he has victimized over the […]
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Higaonon Filipina writes about feeling unwanted in her FilAm community (A FAHM story)
By Sheena Ocot My memories of Mama Liling, my paternal grandmother, will always be vivid. She was there when we were little tykes romping around in our diapers. I would lie on her bed while she crocheted and I watched the Mets with her. She always let us play outside our home in Lodi, New […]
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On NaFFAA’s 20th year, honoring its past and recognizing its legacy
This October, several events are being planned to celebrate this milestone, which coincides with the national observance of Filipino American History Month. They will culminate with NaFFAA’s 20th Anniversary Gala, to be held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC on Saturday, October 21, 2017. “Our 20th anniversary is an exciting occasion to […]