H.E.R. is not just the first Black female artist to have a signature model #Fender guitar, I'm pretty sure she's also the first #Filipinx artist to have a signature Fender guitar. That might not be a big deal to you, or it might not be important to you to know that, but it's a big deal to me, and it's important to me. The #guitar is the most important musical instrument in modern Filipinx culture #HER

https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/fender-blue-marlin-limited-edition-h-e-r-stratocaster/

through mastodon, reddit, and tiktok, i've encountered so much more filipino community discourse, especially concerning the filipino american diaspora, and it still boggles my mind how the term "filipinx" creates such a stir.

this discourse takes place day in and day out, with people fawning over how terrible this lexical shift is and crying out about how awful and "cringe" filipino americans are for it.

#filipino #filipinx

#Filipinos, there is now a Mastodon.ph
#filipinx #filam #philippines

Third issue of my #newsletter, https://commonwealthcafe.substack.com is up. Focus on #FilAm & other ethnic print media history.

Vigilantes! Cont'd. ACLU News, El Malcriado, Filipino Student Mag., Jason Sarmiento, DOAJ, Kobayashi Kiyochika, Angel Boligan, Ethnic newspapers & Covid, Maria Ressa, Rappler Guide to Mastodon.

Subscription is free!
#Filipino #Filipinx #newspaperhistory
#ethnicmedia
#labor

I had such a huge fear that if I had characters call each other Kuya or Ate in my plays without footnote translations, I'd never get produced. That may be a reason, but if the director and actors (whom are supposed to be Filipinx) don't know what I mean, then I don't need it produced by those powers that be.

Maybe it's also because I got tired of trying to explain to others my background to be accepted.

#filipino #filipinx #gatekeeper #playwright #rules #writer #stubborn #whoAmIWritingFor

@toddrjones i maintain this list on #twitter of #filipinx / #filipino / #filipina folks in the 🇵🇭 diaspora and when it goes into the dark abyss, i go too: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1075073657129582593?s=20