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Getting to the roots. Facing the pain.

The ghosts and land spirits of my ancestral land paid me three visits. I dreamt of the long-gone aeta on the island of Buglas, dancing. I am being told of forgotten things, by diwata—nymphs—that dwell in the land and by restless souls who need […]

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NewFilipina.com is 15 years old

Yup, NewFilipina.com has been online for 15 years now. On May 15 of 1998, we posted our first teaser campaign and spread the word via email, from discussion board to discussion board, to ask people to join and help us create a positive Filipina […]

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Pinay sparkle in action.

  Pinay.com is promoting “Shine, Pinay, shine.” and “Pinay Sparkle.” These phrases are ways to wake Filipinas up to their inner beauty that can radiate from within and outwards into the hearts of others. Last year I wrote Shine Mentality: Sure cure to Colonial […]

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Pinay Power Q and A

This is a question and answer writeup, done in October 2004, and emailed back to Melinda de Jesus, editor of Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory: Hey Melinda! …thanks for stimulating some activity from my head to my hands… i took some of the answers from […]

cybertyping

and the stereotyping goes on…

I just today saw this post at answers.yahoo.com: Rodney L: Where can i find pretty filipina girls? is there any dating sites exclusively for filipina?  9 hours ago – 4 days left to answer” Sadly, the first answer he got was from N who said “filipina […]

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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 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 […]