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Rainbow Ball 2025: A Historic Weekend of Pride, Perya, and Power for the Filipinx Ballroom Community

Rainbow Ball 2025: A Historic Weekend of Pride, Perya, and Power for the Filipinx Ballroom Community

Ballroom icons met Filipinx brilliance at this historic Pride opener

CultureHella PinayJune 17, 2025culture, queerness, Culture, ballroom, drag

ROLL OUT

ROLL OUT

Blaze Revlon spells out her journey as a Queer Filipina bridging the rollerskate and ballroom community in the Philippines

MagazineSami SeeMay 21, 2025culture, hellapinaymag, queerness, Magazine, editorial, hellapinaymagazine, issue04, houseofrevlon, Culture, ballroom

IPALAMBO! Looking Past Preservation: Liyang Network on Solidarity & the Romanticization of Indigenous Culture

IPALAMBO! Looking Past Preservation: Liyang Network on Solidarity & the Romanticization of Indigenous Culture

A Q&A with two co-founders of Liyang Network, a local to global advocacy network that amplifies the calls to action of frontline environmental and human rights defenders in Mindanao, Philippines

MagazineLiyang NetworkAugust 8, 2024culture, hellapinaymag, queerness, Magazine, liyangnetwork, mindanao, indigenouspeople, lumad, humanrights, Culture

OVERFLOW // Unpublished Excerpts from Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing

OVERFLOW // Unpublished Excerpts from Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing

Previously unpublished excerpts from Jen Soriano's critically-acclaimed debut book

BooksJen SorianoApril 16, 2024culture, Culture, nervous, jensoriano

Arm The Girls

Arm The Girls

Part of We Are The Ones’s series of shoots for Arm The Girls, a mutual aid initiative building power and safety with BIPOC queer and trans femmes + a conversation with Guerrilla Davis and Pearl Teese on their experiences as Afro-Filipinos navigating anti-Blackness, gender- and sex-based hate in our communities

Magazinekali diwaMarch 31, 2024style, filipinofashion, terno, culture, hellapinaymag, keithlafuente, designer, fashiondesigner, filipinoidentity, queerness, Magazine, pearlteese, editorial, kalidiwa, Identity, filipiniana, Culture

Feminism in Business: The Filipinx Approach to Post-Pandemic Entrepreneurship

Feminism in Business: The Filipinx Approach to Post-Pandemic Entrepreneurship

Keesa Ocampo is rewriting the rules with a heart-forward approach

FeatureAriel NeidermeierJuly 21, 2021culture, Culture, filmmaker, philippines, film, community, filipino food movement, food, filipinofoodmovement, pinaycrush, feminism, partnership, sponsor, femalefounder, emmy

Bridging Communities at the Blasian March Pride Rally

Bridging Communities at the Blasian March Pride Rally

Celebrating intersectional power and joy in Brooklyn

ActivismVina OrdenJune 10, 2021news, culture, Culture, queerness, queer, pridemonth, pride, blasian, blackandasiansolidarity, popular

Kim Requesto Explores the Possibilities of Philippine Folk Dance in YUGTO

Kim Requesto Explores the Possibilities of Philippine Folk Dance in YUGTO

The three-part video series premieres this Saturday, May 29th as part of USAAF 2021

Brown Asians are Asian, Too

Brown Asians are Asian, Too

We need to show up for all Asian Americans

CultureMelissa PandikaMay 19, 2021asianamerican, filipinx, culture, antiblackness, melissapandika, may2021, Culture, popular

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Witness To A Devouring Monster

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Witness To A Devouring Monster

A film anthology challenges the boundaries of Pinxy representation and imagination

FilmVina OrdenMay 14, 2021news, culture, Culture, filmmaker, film, art, philippines, may2021, witnesstoadevouringmonster, anaisnin, mariaclara, filipiniana, filipinomythology, magindara, popular

forever bastos, no longer mabait

forever bastos, no longer mabait

how bad girl narratives both free and foil pinays

Voiceskali diwaFebruary 25, 2021asianamerican, Roots + Identity, identity, filipinoidentity, filipinx, naturalhair, curlyhair, Identity, feb2021, selflove, filipinas with curly hair, bastos, queerness, kalidiwa, popular, Culture

Isabel Sandoval’s ‘Shangri-La’ is the Latest in Miu Miu Women’s Tales Series

Isabel Sandoval’s ‘Shangri-La’ is the Latest in Miu Miu Women’s Tales Series

The acclaimed director explores fantasy, freedom, and elusive Utopia in her new short film

VideoStephanie GancaycoFebruary 23, 2021video, stephaniegancayco, news, culture, Culture, isabelsandoval, miumiu, miumiuwomenstales, femaledirector, filmmaker, film, art, trans woman director, philippines, feb2021

Dear Non-Black Filipinx Fam: We Need to Stop Saying the N-Word

Dear Non-Black Filipinx Fam: We Need to Stop Saying the N-Word

We might say it because we identify with Black struggles, or grew up hearing it all the time — but that still doesn’t give us a pass.

CultureMelissa PandikaFebruary 16, 2021asianamerican, filipinx, blm, blackandasiansolidarity, culture, antiblackness, rockyrivera, colonialmentality, rubyibarra, ejrdavid, melissapandika, feb2021, Culture

Filipinas With Curly Hair (& Other Phrases I've Googled)

Filipinas With Curly Hair (& Other Phrases I've Googled)

On learning to love my natural hair texture through unlearning colonial mentality

VoicesMaxine DimalantaFebruary 16, 2021asianamerican, Roots + Identity, identity, filipinoidentity, filipinx, naturalhair, curlyhair, Identity, feb2021, selflove, filipinas with curly hair, popular, Culture

Letter From The Editor: February

Letter From The Editor: February

Andddd we’re back!

CultureStephanie GancaycoFebruary 16, 2021stephaniegancayco, letterfromtheeditor, culture, Culture, feb2021

Letter From the Editor: January

Letter From the Editor: January

2020 wuzgood?!

CultureStephanie GancaycoJanuary 23, 2020stephaniegancayco, letterfromtheeditor, culture, Culture, january2020

#PinayCrush: Gigi Roundtree

#PinayCrush: Gigi Roundtree

Learn how this activist, nonprofit founder, & entrepreneur empowers her Las Vegas community

FeatureStephanie GancaycoNovember 5, 2019pinaycrush, representationmatters, bebot, Culture, gigiroundtree, commontree, entrepreneur, inspirational, author, november2019, culture

Letter From the Editor: August

Letter From the Editor: August

Fucked around and got in my feelings, might delete later

Letter From The EditorStephanie GancaycoAugust 5, 2019stephaniegancayco, letterfromtheeditor, culture, Culture, july2019