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@walanghiyanyc at @fanhsmny ‘s Little Manila Walking tour. #filipinoamericanhistorymonth #FAHM

Still processing the #NewYorkerFest ‘s discussion on American Identity. So many learnings about the #immigrant life & #writing —from @lee_minjin & @teaobreht ‘s terrible but necessary unpublished #novels , to @danielgalarcon ‘s employing a novelist’s mindset in getting across otherwise mundane facts in journalism, to @ocean_vuong ‘s being an “apprentice of the sentence in service of the story,” whether #poetry or #prose, and envisioning what it would look like to not compromise the #AsianAmerican voice. Grateful to be nourished by today’s breakfast for the mind & soul!

The US paid Spain $20MM for the #Philippines in 1898, thus ending what then Secretary of State John Milton Hay called a “splendid little war.” Camp John Hay was established in Baguio in 1903 and remained an active military base until 1991—a year before I immigrated to New York. But, America was already a part of my geography, long before I moved to the US. The city of Baguio, built around Burnham Park, was in fact the Chicago architect’s manifestation of his White City on indigenous lands. The photo in the background, taken by member the Philippine Commission Dean Worcester in July, 1900, shows at least 20 Ibaloi homes that were eventually razed to build a “summer capital” for American government officials and businessmen who caught the gold rush fever. I didn’t know until adulthood that the parks, streets and place names I grew up with—Wright, Forbes, Harrison, Wood—were the names of American Governor Generals who oversaw the theft of our lands, natural resources, indigenous history, and cultural identity. Thefts that continue to this day. This poem is a 🔥dalit🔥—a short form of #Pilipinx #poetry reappropriated by Spanish friars to convert #indigenous people to Catholicism. It’s composed of 4 lines, 8 syllables per & usually follows a rhyming pattern (AAAA, where all the endings rhyme/AABB, rhyming couplets/ABAB, every other, like the one above/ABBA). For #filipinoamericanhistorymonth #FAHM , let’s write about our #Filipino #FilipinoAmerican experience or about a person or idea that’s influenced or inspired us. Use the hashtag #ControlAltDalit & invite others to participate by mentioning them in comments! ... #FilAm #Pinxy #Pinay #Pinoy #FilipinoWriters #kundimanforever #FilipinoLanguageMovement #decolonize #FAHMChallenge #Baguio

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