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rising above colonial mentality. from propaganda to healing. a reading list. ---newfilipina.com

Waking from Colonial Stupor, A booklist

Why is decolonization and indigenization important to Filipinos today? One of the reasons is that it helps Filipinos become more integrated in their own cultural identity. It also helps them become strengthened as a collective of people who are of the archipelago called the […]

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push fear aside 2 shine

Push Fear Aside and Allow Yourself to Shine!

I used to read Marianne Williamson’s books faithfully. In this way, she has taught me a lot. This includes the need to not be afraid to shine and to be able to let other people shine. “Our deepest fear is not that we are […]

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Retreat, January 2011

I usually go on retreat every winter time at the beginning of the new year. I used to go to Kri Palu out in Massachusetts every year. One year I tried going to the Svinananda Yoga Ranch out in upstate New York. Last year […]

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unchained

the chains have fallen. she is transformed. a new person. a new filipina. created in 1998 for the launch of the original newfilipina.com community site. evokes for me the fallen chains of biased concepts that limited the filipina.

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beauty lies we believe in

Take a look at this commercial. I found it posted at shine.yahoo.com’s article “Is white skin more beautiful?” by Product Friend. I shared my comments at that article and wanted to share and expound a bit more here…

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A guy is featured @Pinay.com!

The first featured Filipino member at Pinay.com! Antonio Ingles is the first Filipino Pinay.com member for the week of 1/28/11! Deservedly so as he joined Pinay.com and as I got to know him better it turns out he is the founder of Aral Pinoy, […]

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2011 is here!

2011 is here! Mabuhay—may you and yours be filled with Life, Light and Love  Dearest NewFiipina.com fans and Pinay.com members: What does it mean to be Pinay or Pinoy in the Motherland and on Mother Earth? I have an inkling but it still seems […]

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…ancient indigenous ways

Learning about tattoo practice & symbolism uncovers the beauty of Filipino ancient indigenous way Before it was even released, I featured this book a couple of times at my BaybayinAlive blog. I finally got a copy last month and read the book for most […]

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… All Things Have a Spirit…

Ancient Filipinos Believed That All Things Have a Spirit and Meaning We have to go back to prehistoric times to know how our culture developed to appreciate our cultural heritage as a people and rekindle the Filipino diwa (spirit) to guide us along the pathways of […]

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mystical aspects of life

In defense of the mystical experience of being Filipino or even human A long time ago, I shared online The Bahala Meditations. For some this was helpful. For others, this was new age nonsense. Last year, I started a blog called Baybayin Alive. Recently, […]

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Sark and the Succulent Wild Women

This book helped me open up my heart and mind to my womanhood. I wrote the following review in 2003 at amazon.com: I remember speakiing to a group of women in 2002 in the Philippines at a workshop on women’s wisdom. When I told […]

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CHARMAINE CLAMOR "My Funny Brown Pinay"

Maganda ka! Ikaw ay indio…

Maganda ka! Ikaw ay indio. Ikaw ay pilipino. Charmain Clamor sings to you, Brown Pinays… “Girl, I think you’re outta sight. You ARE beautiful. Maganda ka! Ikaw ay indio. Ikaw ay pilipino. You’re my funny brown pinay. Sweet, funny brown pinay.” Her YouTube Video, My Funny […]

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the real Pinay.com

Some other sites, like dating sites, try to increase their hits by cheating or falsely giving their html page a title value with text of “pinay.com” in it. These dating sites have the one purpose of connecting men around the world with Filipinas who […]

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i don't go around saying I'm a filipina. but i

I don’t go around saying “I’m Filipina”

Yes, I am the publisher of several sites for Filipinas like this blog, the site at pinay.com and a few others. I also create and publish other Filipino sites that are a part of my own search for my Filipino identity in a global community. […]

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Fabulous Filipina cyberspace presence campaign

What are all these fabulous filipina banners floating around the pinay.com pages? The following was first posted at www.fabulousfilipinas.net in 2004: When i was growing up and as a young adult, i had the closed-hearted, small notion that the world was only big enough […]

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optimism…

Is optimism the secret to youth? I conquered my fear of heights when i learned how to ski at the edge of mountains. from my ancestors and having lived a bit, i get fire in my blood, wind in my spirit, earthiness in my […]

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purity. reality. do you know them?— perla daly

kabuhayan na dalisay

kabuhayan na dalisay (pure life) i love—- …to watch meteor showers while lying down on grass in soft-flannel-lined sleeping bags. …slowing down to just breathe, feel the air on my skin, and the air flowing in and out of me. …sleeping-in and cozying up […]

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Life Motivates

I love to make people feel good about themselves, at work, in class, conversation or chance encounters. I really do love people—-we all have this beauty and light within, waiting to be uncovered, layers peeling away to make a little opening, a door sometimes […]

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BABAYLAN MANDALA I.I

inspired by the babaylan and her service to community, healing, celebration of life, pakikipagkapwa… i created the babaylan mandala, one of which will be featured on the book cover of leny strobel’s next book, a babaylan anthology with narratives from the homeland and the […]

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Filipina Images of the Past

i found this photo of a stunning native filipina morena beauty in the page of old philippines on facebook and became a fan immediately. the caption there is: “from john silva: “people have been commenting on the profile photo of the woman with a fan. i […]

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Filipina Revolutionaries

manytimes, our historical ideals of the filipina are limited to maria clara. but we can find many others to consider as ideals. it’s been about 110 years ago since the philippine revolution and dr. robert l. yoder, fapc wrote 10 years ago during the […]

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pinay.com is going beta

Please join me in testing the pinay.com beta site. Visit the PinayDotCom Beta page on FB to get more details and become a member of the beta testing team.