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
Filipinas With Curly Hair (& Other Phrases I've Googled)
On learning to love my natural hair texture through unlearning colonial mentality
Curves In My Eyes and Sides
Growing up Pinay, self-love and acceptance are ever growing and transforming
Smashing Hollywood’s Stereotypes
On being “Filipino enough,” reclaiming our narratives, and the importance of representation in film
Undocumented & Filipinx: Kat's Story
"When you come out as gay, you risk being rejected by your family and friends; when you come out as undocumented, you risk being rejected by an entire country."
fo(u)r generations
Reflections on four generations of womxn reclaiming archetypes found in Philippine literature
In The In Between: Depression + A New Year
On making new year’s resolutions while having depression
Confronting Appropriation and the Struggle to Re-member Self
Real talk on the process of re-membering of self and navigating representation of ancestry with the spirit of Kapwa
Decolonizing Bodies - Motherland is Me
Reflections on a Philippine Folk and Herbal Medicine Workshop with Angela Angel and on decolonizing the body through Plant Medicine
Reclaiming #WalangHiya: Changing Gender Roles from Precolonial Times to the Present
"It's in our blood to adorn ourselves with tattoos and embroidery, beads and gold."
Finding Home: Remembering Indigeneity
"Where is home when you are a settler on stolen land of the “Americas”? Where is home when your people have been divided: indigenous vs. forced to forget?"