newFilipina.com

 
Copy was initially for the ad going in a local fil-am newspaper to invite people to our booth at the New York City Philippine Independence Day Celebration. This was a time when I began to find the words to articulate my experience and exploration of www.newfilipina.com, what it meant to be a filipina in the [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
created in 1998 for the launch of
the original newfilipina.com community site.
evokes for me the fallen chains
of biased concepts that limited the filipina.
the chains have fallen.
she is transformed.
a new person. a new filipina.

in 1998, tish wrote for the site:

Imagine this. It’s 1996 and The Web is a new experience to explore. It’s exciting and fun… You’ve been using the web to shop for cars and find good prices… You’ve been chatting with friends from around the world… You’ve been reading, writing and posting stuff online about things that interest you… You’ve discovered yahoo.com, [...]

cybertyping. a process by which the internet creates a racialized stereotype, false image or cybermyth through search engine results, web advertising and existing web sites on that race or ethnicity. 

filipina cybertyping is articulated when one does a search on “filipina” through search engines such as a google and yahoo and those results show mostly [...]

it may have been the culmination of newfilipina.com as a community site, when we organized a 2005 global conference of Filipina leaders and ground-breakers. it took place in New York City at the New York University’s Kimmel Conference Center. these Filipinas believed in empowerment others and contributing to lives and societies around the world. in [...]

 
from its conceptualization, changes in my personal life took place because of newfilipina.com aka bagongpinay. one cannot run such a site without digging down deep what it means to be Filipina in this world, what it means to be born to the culture, the big extended families, the colonized history. i met many people on [...]

 
since 1998, because of the experience of community, the heart-to-heart sharing with others through newfilipina.com, i’ve been given many reasons to contemplate and find my true Self beyond modern myths & stereotypes and centuries-old definitions of womankind and femininity, written down and made (sacrilegiously) sacred by institutions and history or by just plain prejudiced jerks [...]

 
May 2008 marked the 10th anniversary of newfilipina.com.
Today is July 4rth, 2008, and newfilipina.com is officially back online. thanks for waiting and checking back in after over a year of absence. things at newfilipina.com will definitely be better in that it will be easier to navigate it and it will become simple. newfilipina.com used to have many [...]