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What is the difference that I see between websites about Filipinas and websites for and by Filipinas? 
I have friends and made friends with those who have published and/or used both types of sites above. So this is a matter-of-fact examination with no judgment and I invite you readers to comment.
Websites about Filipinas  
These days, and [...]

Imperialists would create division among their colonized and conquered peoples.
Here in America, with the elections coming up I feel the division between cultures, classes and parties getting wider and wider. It’s heart wrenching and sickening.
I’ve been reading a few things and I wanted to share them. Dare allow yourself to be challenged?

First, I couldn’t believe [...]

It’s hard to remember or believe, but there was a time that Philippine or American women couldn’t vote at all. There was also a time in America that when women went to the polls that they were harassed and threatened so that they’d be discouraged from exercising their right as citizens.
Today, most of us women [...]

Hello Pinoy and Pinay Designers:
I am inviting you to join a logo design competition. The winning logo design will be used in the up and coming web portal of www.pinay.com, a website for and by Filipinas. This site will be about uplifting and empowering Filipina identity online and in the world. It will have useful services [...]

Are you Ashamed to be a Filipina? You’ve been disempowered then. So take back your power, already!

I am glad to know that there are many, many Filipinos who are proud of being who they are. There is a little thrill within me when I see this in the Mother Land (Inang Bayan) and abroad. Filipino [...]

A little over a hundred years ago, Clemencia Lopez, a Filipina of intelligence and courage speaks for love of family and country to women in the United States. She talks of Philippine women’s equality and the Filipinos’ struggle for independence against U.S. armed forces and imperialist occupation. Here are the words of an extraordinary woman [...]

Filipino Women’s Network or FWN has come up with the Shape the Filipina Image Campaign
A recent Google search of “Filipina” yielded 3,770,000 results, a high majority were links to Filipina dating sites, matchmaking, “bar” and “sexy” girls and personal ads.  These sites have defined Filipina women in the U.S.  Perpetuation of this “popular image” is [...]