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Congratulations to editors (and my personal heroes) @kevinnadal @pinayism & @ejrdavidphd on the launch of the @sage_publishing Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies! It’s truly a feat engaging over 300 #Filipino #Filipinx #FilAm academics from all disciplines and community leaders to contribute 350 entries covering an exhaustive list of categories. It’s not surprising that I ran into students, educators, activists, artists and cultural bearers, historians, healthcare workers, psychologists and sociologists, and public servants at this celebration of our community.

My aunt has been digging out childhood photos of me. Love this latest, which affirms my consistency over the years. To my aunt’s exhortation to “make love not war,” I say, “why not be a loving warrior” 😘❤️✊🏽 (To give credit where credit’s due, I was thinking of the loving warrior line from #LuisHFrancia’s play #TheStrangeCaseOfCitizenDeLaCruz )

For your gift-giving consideration, New Year edition … I’m so excited about friends’ #debut #books this spring! Please consider pre-ordering these books to help build buzz and increase booksellers’ initial orders:

As part of my #YA #novel research, I’ve been revisiting the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War, and it has got me thinking a lot about the consequences of imperial wars and settler/extractive colonialism that continue to reverberate today. There’s a very timely exhibition @whitneymuseum right now that runs through April 23, “no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria,” coinciding with the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria. It’s a must-see show!

Yesterday’s post about leaving my last full-time job and major gift fundraising career reminded me of the @thesketchbookproject , really a mini #graphicnovel, I created in 2016 called “Take 10: One New Yorker's Escape from a Harried Life ... 10 Minutes at a Time.” What I didn’t mention in my last post was that in the spring of 2016, I was recuperating from surgery from a broken foot and had a chance to reflect on my journey since being diagnosed with clinical depression and severe anxiety after my full-blown mental breakdown and hospitalization due to suicide attempts the summer of 2014. When revisiting the sketchbook yesterday, I was proud to see the beginnings of my reclaiming my life, even in the small increments of 10 minutes at a time. Check out the Linktr.ee in bio to flip through the whole sketchbook digitally for free! I especially hope it’s helpful to you or anyone else you know who has had/is struggling through mental health issues.

The banner year that was 2022 began with the news that I was accepted into @aaww_nyc ’s 2022 #OpenCity Fellowship AND @kweli.journal ’s 2022 #KweliSingTheTruth Mentorship program, working with @areliteration of @levinequerido. All this would not have been possible if I hadn’t made the conscious decision 5 years ago to quit my last full-time job and major gift fundraising career and downshift to a part-time job with a significant title demotion and a 70% pay decrease but which allowed me to pay my bills while pivoting to a writing and editing career.

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