#filipinos
This quick video sums up my 4 days blessed weekend. Love being with family and friends. From Chicago, Texas, Vegas, and BIRTHDAYS!!! Thai food, seafood, Filipino food, Vietnamese food and the best part HOME COOKED MEALS!! I have every photo except the Easter Sunday today. I feel like I’m 10 months pregnant lmao! When you’re around with Filipinos there’s always FOOD AVAILABLE! Yeah and of course I got my ELOTE! #Family #friends #filfam #filipinos #pinoys #birthdays #hbdloloelmore #hechanovas #calderons #mansos #thankful #foodporn omg I sound like a broken record. HOW MANY TIMES IVE SAID YAASSS in this video?! #fatass (at California)
“I’m sorry…”
I failed you, didn’t I? The future I hoped you’d have, snatched away from you in the dead of the night.
We’d fight for you Philippines. I’d walk up under the scorching sun and raise my voice just like what our ancestors once did. But I know that they hoped it would only happen just that one time Feburary 22-25, 1986. But here we are. Schools and Universities are threatening to shut down, running up to the comelec office demanding for the democracy unfairly taken away from them. The economy is going down with foreign investors pulling out all together.
Students and people who step up against the Marcoses are being red-tagged. Fake forms are circulating, gathering information of people who are against the government.
I’m scared for my people. You may be celebrating your candidate’s win, but I’m scared of that inevitable day that he will turn against you.
I’m really sorry. Maybe I should’ve done more.
Filipino United Farm Workers Union (UFW) supporters picket outside of a California Safeway store, February 1973. The UFW union reached a three-year contract with major grape growers in 1970 after years of struggle and a nationwide grape boycott. However, in 1973 when the contracts expired, major grape growers signed “sweetheart” contracts which the UFW responded with strikes and a nationwide boycott of lettuce and grapes.
The whole movement began in Coachella in the summer of 1965 when a group of Filipino workers went on strike demanding that their wages be increased from $1.10 an hour as well as better living conditions. After a succesful first strike they did it again, but this time in Delano where wages were also starting at $1.10 an hour. However, the struggle became a lot harder when the growers were very successful in dividing and creating conflict between Mexican and the Filipino workers.
Larry Itliong and Andy Imutan, leaders of the largely Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), decided to take action by seeing Cesar Chavez, the leader of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). It took several discussions and a lot of faith, but finally the Filipinos and Mexicans joined as one on September 16, to picket the Delano growers. A few months later AWOC and NFWA joined together as the United Farm Workers.
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the way other people (esp non filipinos) are blaming filipinos instead of blaming the marcoses for their massive disinformation campaign & probable rigging of voting machines…. it doesnt sit right with me
Yo we got some ‘new kids on the block’ sporting dope casual gear. It’s Raven, Cyborg,Robin,Starfire&Beastboy serving vibes with a modern spin on these ‘Casual Teen Titans’. I dig the artwork of this young independent artist, Roberto Atanacio Jr., hailing from the Philippines… Check him out..
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There’s a PR push to celebrate the new romance between Chelsea Handler and Filipino American comedian Jo Koy. But Handler has a history of being racist and using her dating life with men of color as a shield from facing repercussions—and Koy seems happy to let her do it again.
Handler used this tactic in the Black community. Her response to backlash was to create content that talks around her racism without truly addressing it—and still profit from it. Ironically her “acknowledgement” of anti-Black racism is how I got exposed to her anti-Asian racism.
In 2016’s Chelsea Does Racism, Handler claims to be “egalitarian” with her jokes about race. But it’s clear she’s made choices on which groups to appear empathetic to and which groups she feels safe to dismiss with a laugh—such as Asian men. And she’s unapologetic about it.
Fast forward to Handler and Koy’s media tour touting themselves as a power couple. This matters because Jo Koy is currently being celebrated as major Fil-Am rep with his soon-to-be released studio film, Easter Sunday. Proudly pairing with an anti-Asian racist sends a message.
Jo Koy was not only the most frequent guest on her past show over the years (meaning he knows who she is), but invited her to play a role in Easter Sunday. This serves to rehabilitate her image, bring her into Fil-Am/AsAm spaces and let her profit from it.
Handler’s recent IG video says it all: She wants a Kardashian empire, where Filipinos are swapped in for Black people as accessories to her whiteness. She’s talking like a textbook sexpat yet repeatedly describes Filipinos and Black people as infiltrators.
Jo Koy’s decision to partner with Handler makes more sense knowing he’s guilty of peddling anti-Asian stereotypes too. In one special, Koy publicly body shames his son—ignoring his pleas not to. This is the same special that got Steven Spielberg to greenlight Easter Sunday.
You can guess the elevator pitch for Easter Sunday: “Think Crazy Rich Asians, but take out the rich so they’re just crazy.” White-mixed Asians like Jo Koy are granted more humanity than monoracial Fil-Ams due to the legacy of colonization, and Koy seems to be leaning into that.
Jo Koy is hardly the only example of an Asian with media power choosing whiteness over the AsAm community. Far more often, the pattern consists of white men partnered with Asian women (a legacy of racist U.S. policies like the Mixed Marriage Policy)
For ex, AsAm Chloe Bennet—who’s half-white like Jo Koy—proudly defended Logan Paul after he mocked and exploited a dead Japanese man. Yet Bennet is centered in campaigns about anti-Asian hate. Asians who hurt their community aren’t punished by white Hollywood—they’re rewarded.
The legacy of the MMP is so strong that white men feel entitled to speak on Asian issues in AsAm spaces—and Asians with media power let them. This causes severe harm, as seen by the erasure of AAPI men from hate crime data and narratives.
Back to the film Easter Sunday, there are no Fil-Ams credited on the creative team. I’m all for pan-Asian progress, but not at the expense of specific ethnic groups. It’s the first studio film to center on a Filipino American family. This pattern of erasing Fil-Ams in AsAm spaces needs to stop too.
Overall, Easter Sunday is supposed to be a “first,” but with so much racism embedded in its creation, I don’t feel like celebrating. The idea of seeing either Jo Koy or Chelsea Handler on a red carpet for a major Fil-Am milestone is awful. It’s a win for them—not us.
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