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Snap a winning Filipino smile
The “Smiles for the World: a Filipino Photo Essay Contest for Calidad Humana” is accepting submissions, announced Deputy Consul General Theresa Dizon-de Vega. The contest is open to all Filipino citizens regardless of age, place of residence and occupation. The February deadline has been extended to April 30, 2013. The contest is intended to showcase […]
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Joe Bataan: Playing catch-up with his Filipino roots
By Cristina DC Pastor He strode into the room trailed by his family, all the way down to his granddaughter. The venerable Joe Bataan, the much-touted King of Latin Soul, was impeccably dressed like he was going to church: gray linen suit over black turtle neck, a gold crucifix chain dangling from his neck. “I’m […]
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Universal Self returns from ‘mind-blowing’ trip to India
By Cristina DC Pastor In the morning of November 27th, Kilusan Bautista was en route to India to perform at the annual Sahabhaga theater festival. Several days later, reports of a New Delhi woman being gang-raped gripped the country, casting his travel into a communal reflection about the society’s values on gender, masculinity and respect […]
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The goalie is a girl!
Hello. My name is Rosalyn de Castro. I am 10 years old and I want to be a pro-athlete. I hope to be in the Olympics one day. Right now I am the only girl on my hockey team, and I am a goalie. I am at the rink almost everyday working hard to get […]
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Students peer into the future of feminism
What is a wave and what will the fourth wave look like? These questions were a sampling of the many topics discussed during AF3IRM NY’s last day of the Summer School of Activism (SSOWA). Lead facilitators Minerva Arias and Maria Garcia-Mugg critiqued the first three waves of feminism and challenged students to define what the […]
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FANHS-NY accepting nominations for community awards till Aug. 30
The Filipino American National Historical Society- Metro New York requests nominations for its second annual Community Recognition Awards There are three awards: (a) the Contributions to Excellence Award, (b) the Youth Leadership Award, and (c) the Outstanding Artist Award. The awardees will be recognized during the opening ceremonies of Filipino American History Month on October […]
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Portrait of the hairstylist as performance artist
By Cristina DC Pastor A typical day for Leslie Ferrer Espinosa would be listening to her clients as they are seated on a chair talking about themselves. See, Leslie is not a psychiatrist. She is a hairstylist and makeup artist but she listens just as attentively as any therapist does, and sometimes she gets to […]
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The foreigner in the corner
By Shakira Sison I am the quiet one in the crowd with an approving nod and a warm chuckle, the one who just smiles at whatever you say. Looking spineless and overly agreeable, I give affirmative responses to most questions and suggestions while appearing to be afloat in my own world. To an outsider, it […]