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:

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 [...]

Since 2006, Filipina Images took up the baton and has been hard at work creating a balanced image for the filipina on the internet. They worked with  Wikipilipinas.org to launch a Filipina Stories contest that could generate great material on the topic of filipina image online or filipinas today. In celebration of Women’s Month in March 2008, [...]

 
after 10 years of exploring this question, here are some of my answers:
…She loves being born a Filipina and honors where she comes from.
…She is a Giver, not a Taker.
…She is the one who does not let others’ ignorance become her own.
…She is the one inside of you who has Courage to do the thing that [...]