Filipino Representation in American Pop Culture
It’s one thing to watch the Filipino channel on your TV but there’s quite a different sentiment to seeing Filipinos represented in...
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Crystal Sipin
- Feb 11
Redefining What It Means to Be a: Mestiza
How funny is it to think that one word can be used to define more than one thing? A “block” could describe a piece of material used for...
Crystal Sipin
- Dec 5, 2021
The “Family” in Filipino
What constitutes a family? Some may argue that your family consists solely of your immediate family--your parents, your siblings, and...
Harleen Kaur
- Sep 6, 2021
ARTventure Down the Mekong, Chopsticks Alley Art’s First Art Book
The wait is over! Chopsticks Alley Art’s first ever book project, ARTventure Down the Mekong, is releasing today on Labor Day! ARTventure...
Zachary Anderson
- Jul 6, 2021
Watching The Debut Twenty Years After its Release
In Gene Cajayon’s 2001 film “The Debut,” second-generation Filipino American Ben Mercado (played by Dante Basco who is best known for his...
Zachary Anderson
- May 13, 2021
A Diaspora
Author’s Note: The following is a prose poem separated in six stanzas that describes the Filipino American story. It is not the intention...
Zachary Anderson
- Mar 30, 2021
Seasons of the Manongs
From co-editor Asela Lee Kemper: “Seasons of the Mangongs” by Zach FR Anderson focuses on the importance of Filipino migrant workers....
Amanda Pascual
- Oct 20, 2020
Art History Remake Challenge in honor of Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Photographer EJ Villanueva and I teamed up to do the art history remake challenge back in August and I was determined to highlight a...
Asela Lee Kemper
- Sep 25, 2020
Joshua Luna: Opening Conversations Through Comics
When it comes to combining social justice with art, Joshua Luna is not afraid to speak up through his comics. Luna is a comic book...
Asela Lee Kemper
- Sep 21, 2020
Drag Up Your Life: Filipinx American Representation in Drag Race
Many people may have heard the term drag from the popular US reality competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race. Drag is used as entertainment...
Admin
- Aug 3, 2020
In His Own Words: How family and identity shaped the Filipino American writer Carlos Bulosan
When it comes to representation, Carlos Bulosan’s work is cemented into American literature. Bulosan is known for creating Filipino...
Keana A. Labra
- Aug 7, 2019
Barya Kitchen and Rod Reyes: What is Authentic Filipino Food?
The Bay Area is a rich melting pot of different ethnicities, which allows for cultural crossovers and introductions. Over the past five...
Rachel Egoian
- Oct 17, 2018
America Is In the Heart a Novel by Carlos Bulosan: The Filipino Family, Home and Manhood
In our recent story on the novel, America Is not the Heart by Elaine Castillo, we explore the experiences shared by Filipino women that...
Rachel Egoian
- Oct 14, 2018
Elaine Castillo's America Is Not the Heart: What Does It Mean to Be a Filipino Woman?
In Elaine Castillo’s debut novel, America is not the Heart, it delves into the themes of Filipino suffering and survival in which we...
Rachel Egoian
- Oct 10, 2018
Photography and Colonialism in the Early 19th Century Philippines - Art or Documentation?
In the Filipino culture, art and photography lack the support from our communities in which we place our focus towards health and...
Rachel Egoian
- Jun 11, 2018
Philip Vera Cruz: Inspiring Youths about the Filipino Farmworkers Movement, the Minority Within a Mi
A Filipino history lacks visibility in the eyes of society and more importantly for today’s Filipino and Filipino Americans. Why is this...
Rachel Egoian
- Jun 11, 2018
A Review of Dogeaters, a Novel by Jessica Hagedorn, an American Book Award Winner from the Before C
Having read Jessica Hagedorn’s controversial novel, Dogeaters, I found myself struggling with the the novel’s complex structure of the...
Keana A. Labra
- Jun 11, 2018
Storm Over Leyte; Filipino Guerrillas Played an Important Role in WWII. Why Were Their Efforts Omitt
In all my years of education, this quote remained ubiquitous in my social studies courses: “History is written by the victors.” There...