Had some White Male Colonizer come into my town's Facebook group and try to publicly shame me for using #Filipinx, in questioning whether or not a new restaurant that is going to be dealing in Filipinx cultural/cuisine heritage is engaging in #CulturalAppropriation.
I gave them one chance to post proof that they are Filipinx/o/a/@ and that they are actually a resident of my community. They chose...poorly. It wasn't the owners, which I looked up with the VT SecState website.
NOPE. BLOCKED.
I tweeted below five years ago, when there was a noisy discourse in the Philippines regarding the word Filipinx:
The Philippines adopted gendered nouns from Spanish (e.g., doktor/doktora, abogado/abogada), but the precolonial versions of our languages had no gender (e.g., manggagamot, manananggol). And since the word Filipina exists today, one can't completely claim that Filipino is a gender-neutral term.
That said, I don’t think I have the right to object to the term Filipinx, as (1) I’m not part of the Filipino-American diaspora, and (2) I have no personal insight into the struggles of minorities, women, or LGBT people in the U.S. context — much less the gender debates among academics and activists there.
When I moved to Australia, I didn’t like the word Filo at all. It didn’t mean anything to me, and it sounded pretentious. Filipino is just as easy to pronounce and understand. But I learned that the term has been embraced for many years by Australians with Filipino ancestry.
The Filipino-Australian community has every right to claim the word, especially if it fosters a sense of identity and inclusivity. I’m now part of this community, and even though I still avoid using the word Filo myself, I respect others’ choice to use it as they please.
I don’t know the struggles of minorities in the U.S. who are misgendered or discriminated against. And instead of dismissing a term that wasn’t really created for me or my feelings in the first place, I would rather hear them out. #language #gender #filo #filipino #filipinx
Browsing Wikipedia and YouTube, and I suddenly have a craving for #lumpia and #pancit, specifically Lumpiang Pancit.
I like #PancitBihon or #PancitSotanghon best. I haven't made pancit in a long time, because the noodles are stupidly expensive where I live.
One of the things I miss about being a child is not having to go to the trouble of making good food. #siopao #pancit #adobo #bangus #dotPH #Philippines #Filipino #Filipinx #food #FilAm #cuisine #cooking
Stopped at Café 86 in Mountain View this evening after dinner at home
https://cjs-wunderkammer.ghost.io/picture-a-day-jun-22/
#food #desserts #ube #Filipino #Filipinx #MountainView #SFBay #NorCal #blog #SliceOfLife
SJMade Fest was fun!
https://cjs-wunderkammer.ghost.io/picture-s-a-day-jun-2/
#SJMade #blog #stickers #pins #Filipino #Filipinx #AnimalCrossing #Pucca #Garu #cute #makers
I went to an outdoor maker fest called SJMade Fest and bought some fun stickers and pins from a couple makers. The first I stopped at because they had a lot of cute Filipino-themed (or Filipinx) stuff: Le Petit Elefant If you’re Filipinx or know someone who is, you
***NEW EPISODE!!!***
To celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, meet and get to know the humans behind TNT TRAYSIKEL, the part motorcycle/sidecar, part karaoke machine, part mobile Filipino cultural pride project ...
* MIKE ARCEGA
* PAOLO ASUNCION
* RACHEL LASTIMOSA
Up now at the link in bio. Also available wherever you get #podcasts.
📸 Jeff Hunt
#Philippines #LosAngeles #Pomona #immigrants #immigration #AAPI #BIPOC #AAPIHeritageMonth #graffiti #art #artists #SFArtInstitute #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #SanDiego #activism #community #Filipinos #Filipinas #Filipinx #TNTTraysikel #storytelling #SanFrancisco #WereAllInIt
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