As a Spanish Filipina, one of the most complex elements of life is faith. Faith is not just the Catholic Church. Faith, for me, incorporates relationships, love, and family. My faith is the beating heart of my life. From what gives life, I believe, is my faith in Something larger than the human mind’s comprehension, […]
Author: Lisa
On Leadership
I wrote this yesterday after a writing workshop on leadership. This sounds terrible, but up until recently, I’ve yawned in leadership’s face. Someone with a clipboard, microphone, conductor’s stick. It’s all been the same. YAWN. Then, something deeper. I yawned because that leadership is boring, the kind of person who barked at me for being […]
Feminism, Connections, and Whose Voices You Hear
picture found on amazon. For those of you unfamiliar with new media and the intersection with feminism, there is a large explosion of women bloggers, feminist bloggers, and women of color bloggers. What’s the difference, you might ask. Good question. And good questions often spit out complex answers. There are women who blog about random […]
Can’t Read You
You know when you reach a level of stress where you don’t even know what you’re stressed about anymore? All you know is you feel really disconnected from your body? There’s not much happening externally. But, internally, there’s a war going on. There’s a lot of blood, a lot of casualities. A lot of […]
Hiatus
This weak is the pinnacle of my busy-ness at work. It’s crazy. So, this week, my blogging might be lame. Or, maybe, if I get really frustrated, I may have a lightning bolt of inspiration in the midst of craziness and blog some brilliance. Either way, this week might be a little awkward to write […]
Have you ever shoved someone?
Go to this site, check out what happened to this 14 year old girl and decide for yourself, on so many levels, what the hell is going wrong with our justice system. http://freeshaquandacotton.blogspot.com/
Peephole
The first day of spring is a big deal. For those who suffer from SAD (Seasonal Affect Disorder), this day cannot come soon enough. For those like Adonis, who endlessly talks about the beneficial impact of natural sunlight year round, days like today and the equinox should be observed holidays. So, in observation of more […]
MOVE IT
I received this and fully support it. Many filipinas were a part of this atrocity during WWII. If you know what a Comfort Woman is and you don’t think, at the very least, they are deserving of acknowledgement and an apology for systematic rape, get off my blog. Anyone who is interested in taking on […]
If Screens Could Shout
In the dark twiddling of writer’s self-doubt and just as I started a bashful journey to begin saying, YES, I am a WRITER, I receive the most joyous affirmation from G*d. One year ago, I jumped at the chance to review a manuscript. A laborious effort, but I hung in there, believing in good karma. […]
Some Online Activism
A petition for Japanese and Filipina Comfort Women:http://www.gopetition.com/online/11466.html A legitimate online donation for women’s menstruation needs who live in shelters:http://www.tampontification.com/donate.php