What’s it Like Being a Young Adult Filipino Immigrant in New York

What’s it Like Being a Young Adult Filipino Immigrant in New York

As much as it welcomes immigrants, New York City experience can vary depending on one’s ethnicity. As such, in this COVID-19 pandemic, Filipinos among other Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the United States have been experiencing heightened xenophobia following a long American history of using diseases to justify hate and false blame.
Philippine Her-story Is Our Story

Philippine Her-story Is Our Story

With years of women’s quest for independence, struggle for democracy, equality, and social justice, which is visible to the present date, where are all the women’s stories in the points of our nation’s statuses of struggle? Additionally, perhaps, it is hard for some to understand or be concerned about gender inequality because we hardly ever talk about its beginnings and how we, throughout the years, struggle with this silent crime in our personhood. So in celebration of National Women’s Month, may we shed a light on Filipino women’s definition and position in nation-building by acknowledging the necessary details in the story of how we became who we are today