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Geena Rocero’s Gender Proud is now both a non-profit and a business entity
By Cristina DC Pastor Gender Proud, the non-profit organization founded by transgender model Geena Rocero in 2014 as a vehicle for her gender marker advocacy, is now also a business entity. Rocero and colleague Allison Hoffman announced the creation of Gender Proud Productions LLC (GPP) as a media production company that may develop products like […]
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Let ‘divorced Catholics who remarry’ return to the sacraments
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. “Divorced Catholics who remarry, as well as their children, deserve better treatment from the church.” This was heard from Pope Francis himself as he warned pastors against treating those couples as though they were excommunicated. It all goes back to certain practices: Catholic teaching considers divorced Catholics who remarry as […]
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Finding lessons, hilarity in Gene Del Carmen’s collection of short stories
By Maricar CP Hampton For New Jersey accountant Gene Del Carmen, it was his mother’s legacy of being a “great storyteller” that inspired him to write short stories and compile them into the recently published “The Pork Bun Heist and Other Stories.” The collection of nine stories focuses on the possibility of transformation and a […]
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Michigan writer publishes comic books inspired by Philippine folklore
By Cristina DC Pastor Bayani, a boy of 11, is desperately trying to care for his sick father, a fisherman, and keep food on the table for his family. Unfortunately, the sun has been shining down on the islands for the last month and night refuses to fall. The land is growing parched from the […]
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In this Manhattan nursing home, 90% of nurses are Filipinos, says RN exec Florida Lucas
By Cristina DC Pastor Filipinos comprise about 90 percent of nurses at Amsterdam Nursing Home, and if you ask Florida Lucas, the assistant director of nursing, she wouldn’t be surprised if such ratio exists in other nursing facilities in Manhattan as well. “I would say so,” she replied when asked by The FilAm if such […]
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Cloning the Congen: We know ‘why’ but not ‘who’
By Cristina DC Pastor Why would anyone want to duplicate the Facebook page of Consul General Mario Lopez de Leon Jr.? Tech hacks will tell you that these so-called scammers’ nefarious intention is to reach out to the person’s network of friends and ask them for cash. It may not be as simple as that. […]
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Human Rights Commissioner Carmelyn Malalis on family, Faith and a passion to fight vs discrimination
By Cristina DC Pastor “There’s another Pinay!” Carmelyn Malalis got this welcome shoutout from two Filipinas who were earlier appointed to the De Blasio Administration: President of Economic Development Corporation Maria Torres-Springer and Chief Technology Officer Minerva Tantoco. “After I was appointed, I received an email basically welcoming me to the fold. Let’s do a […]
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The FilAms of Silicon Valley: Where are they in high-tech? (Part 3)
By Harvey I. Barkin Jing Torralba observed that Filipinos in her line of work didn’t socialize at work. That they tend to socialize outside of work. When she worked tech pubs at a security company, she worked with a young Filipino engineer. She told him to call her by her first name. She was intending […]
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The FilAms of Silicon Valley: Surviving the layoffs; the rise of Dado Banatao (Part 2)
By Harvey I. Barkin Edwin’s wife, Josefina or Jing, was also a tech writer but followed the path into software. She has a Psychology degree and is no more an engineer than Edwin. She started as a recruitment receptionist for Xerox when she joined Edwin from Washington DC in 1984. That meant, “All I did […]