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I'm excited! #Repost @paolamardo (@get_repost) ・・・ Excited/nervous to share the trailer for Long Distance, my new podcast about life in the Filipino diaspora. 🇵🇭✨ Watch the video teaser here. Listen to the FULL audio trailer and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Check the link in bio for more info. Follow @longdistanceradio if you wanna see more. 〰️ Thanks for being a part of this magical podcast jeepney ride. 💕 I’m stoked this is out, anxious about what you think, grateful if you could subscribe to the show. 🙏🏽 〰️ Video produced by my co-producer etc @patrickepino via @nationalfilmsociety. Audio produced by me. 💁🏻‍♀️

This was inspired by a prompt from Rayna @herheartshapedbox to write a piece celebrating women. When I think about women and womanhood, I don't just think about us, here, now, today. I also think about our ancestors, our foremothers, the matrinlineal legacies that have been oppressed and erased under mysoginistic, patriarchal rule. Why? . Under a patriarchy distorted by toxic masculinity, women are taught and trained to be each other's competition. We are brainwashed to believe that our value lies in what men think of us, how THEY value us. We are asked to be servants to their desires and to protect them above all. We are conditioned to blame and punish other women for men's wrongdoings. If a man cheats, the other woman is the homewrecker. If a man abuses a woman, surely the woman did something to deserve it. What does this thinking do to our womanhood? Our sisterhood? How much do we close our hearts off to one another in our efforts to keep our men, survive our men, especially when we've become so isolated from one another that we feel our men are all we have? . Perhaps if we felt closer to our foremothers, we would feel closer to each other. If we remembered that we all came from our mother's bodies, our mother's blood, we would remember our shared legacies as women and find our way back to each other. If we remembered how hard women of the past (and present) fought to survive and thrive for their children, and how sisterhood often sustained them, we children might fight a little harder for each other and our sisterhood. I dunno. Maybe. . Tagging some women who inspire me. . #poemoftheday #poeticsoul #poeticheart #poetrygram #poetryofinstagram #poetryofig #instapoet #instapoetry #herheartpoetry #writers_den_ #poetrycommunity #pinay #poetess #spilledink #poetryisnotdead #thispoeticlife #poetsofcolor #writersofcolor #womenwhowrite #untwinephilippines #pilipina #pinay #youpoetbook #feminism #feministpoetry

YAAAASSSSS! #Repost @rubyibarra (@get_repost) ・・・ @evelynsees & I are absolutely excited to announce that our #NothingOnUsPinaysRising documentary is screening in Paris, France tonight! (so much love 2 @hella_pinay & @rubyveridiano for being there!) It will also be screening in multiple locations throughout the U.S. + Canada + Guam in the following weeks! 😭♥️ + surprise location TBA later this Fall 😈. I can’t wait to show you all the rest of the visuals + short film from the album. I promise they will be worth the wait. . . New York, NY - 9/9/18 Paris, France - 9/21/18 Toronto, Canada - 10/13/18 Boston, MA - 10/20/18 Guam - 10/21/18 & 10/27/18 San Francisco, CA - 10/28/18 Philadelphia, PA - 11/10/18 Atlanta, GA - TBA . #pinaysrising #islandwomanrise #pinay

Aren't we all just a little bit beautifully broken? 💔 Embrace the imperfection, beloveds. 💖🤗🙏🏽 . #poemoftheday #poeticsoul #poeticheart #poetrygram #poetryofinstagram #poetryofig #instapoet #instapoetry #herheartpoetry #writers_den_ #poetrycommunity #pinay #poetess #spilledink #poetryisnotdead #thispoeticlife #poetsofcolor #writersofcolor #womenwhowrite #untwinephilippines #pilipina #pinay #selflove #radicalselflove #selfacceptance

@brownpapaya magazine just launched and I can't wait to read! The photos alone - seeing all these beautiful Pinays all in one place - make my heart sing! 💖💖✊🏽 #representationmatters #pinayrising #pinay #islandwomanrise #brownisbeautiful #decolonizeyourbeautystandards

Slooooooow dooooooown...I have to say this to myself often. . #poemoftheday #poeticsoul #poeticheart #poetrygram #poetryofinstagram #poetryofig #instapoet #instapoetry #herheartpoetry #writers_den_ #poetrycommunity #pinay #poetess #spilledink #poetryisnotdead #thispoeticlife #poetsofcolor #writersofcolor #womenwhowrite #untwinephilippines #pilipina #pinay

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