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I can’t travel to @walkerartcenter (yet) but glad @tinakimgallery is showing the late #Filipino #FilipinoArtist #PacitaAbad ’s work—her first major solo exhibition in #NYC, believe it or not. Catch it before it closes on June 17!

Opening night (tonight) is officially sold out, but you can still purchase tix to tomorrow’s performances of @raisedpinay Gen 5: Raising Up the Mother, benefiting women’s health organization @rootsofhealth in the Philippines. As background, Raised Pinay is devised theatre, where diasporic Filipinas #Pinays participate for free in a month-long writing workshop, resulting in an original piece interweaving their stories, expressed through monologues, dialogues, poetry, visual art, songs, and/or movement. I was a writer and performer in the third generation of RP and it’s what put me on a path of telling the stories of our Fil Am community.

JOIN ME in emailing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to restore the S code and keep DIEP flap reconstruction (the type of surgery I had almost two weeks ago) accessible for all—not just the wealthy who will always be able to pay for the most advanced medical procedures out-of-pocket. Check out the linktr.ee in my bio for a backgrounder on the coding changes and visit @the_breasties and @drelisabethpotter for more information. #ReverseTheChange

I’ve been “reading with my ears” #HernanDiaz ‘s #novel #TRUST , marveling about its structure—a novel/memoirs within a novel; it’s themes—among others, the insidious creep of capitalism in our daily lives, manifestations of power (patriarchy as well as writers’ abilities to shape/bend “reality”), and considerations of truth and memory. I woke up to the news that Diaz won the #Pulitzer for #fiction (along with Kingsolver) and can say that the honor is deserved. Everyone, go read this book, which engages with some of the more critical issues of our times.

Thank you to everyone who came to last night’s reading @sulonyu (including those not pictured). Honored and still pinching myself about sharing the stage with illustrious poets @patrickrosal Luis H. Francia, and Renato Rosaldo!

Proud of the #TenneseeThree for protesting for gun reform after the Nashville school shooting. It’s despicable that TN House Republicans have disenfranchised voters by expelling Reps. Justin Jones and Rep. Justin Pearson (both Black legislators). But this is now a national story thanks to them.

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