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Why I’m Rising
I am rising because of the thousands of Filipina domestic workers all over the world They who face uncertainty daily Walking into the darkness of foreign lands, foreign languages Pushed out of their countries, away from their families I am rising because I carry the legacy of Filipinas who have stood up and fought against…
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Baby Boom in the Philippines
A visual representation for the increasing need for comprehensive Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/11/09/world/asia/20121109-IHT-manila.html
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Filipino, Migrant, Worker
My new course this Spring 2013 at University of San Francisco!
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Who Cares?
Who Cares?This is a story covering the CARE Project published in the highly regarded and incredibly exciting Asian American magazine, Hyphen. PEEP!
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CARE Project Graduates
The CARE project brings together Filipino caregivers who are immigrants to the US, Filipino American youth, students and professionals. The training for the first part of the CARE Project joined this intergenerational group to learn how to do research for our community around the conditions of caregivers in their workplace. The CARE project is just…
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Justice in the Home: Domestic Workers Re-define the Labor Movement
Justice in the Home: Domestic Workers Re-define the Labor MovementThe coverage of the domestic worker struggle on this radio story is really accurate and sharp.If you’d like to get a quick overview of the issues that domestic workers face and the struggle that is ahead of them, listen to this.
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CARE Project Graduation Commercial
http://vimeo.com/39465285 This video was made by Ryan Leano, a CARE project graduate, about the launch and commencement that we successfully accomplished last week!
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Patriarchy will eat you
Given that the headlines on the past couple of days will probably be fodder the umpteenth season of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, the media monster has feasted on the paradoxical moral and emotional outrage that keeps viewers watching the cases of sexual harassment and assault surrounding major male leaders in institutions like politics…
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Cultures Not Costumes
Halloween has never been a real thing or event in my life. I started to think about how Halloween costumes are hella ridiculous last year when I was looking for something to wear to my NYC community center costume party. As I browsed lots of costume stores with great disgust at the sexualized and racialized…
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Academically Adrift?
This morning as I was browsing through my daily news, a sociology study stuck out of the information overload. In times of #Occupy and Gaddafi’s recent death, a sociological account was the last thing I thought I’d write a post about. But finishing my second month teaching at USF, I’ve been thinking a lot about how my…
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