In March 2020 when we went into lock down, I, like most people at the time, was terrified about what would come next. I had already been contemplating a career change for some time, and management at my workplace was confident that things would blow over in 2 weeks. (LOL). And when that didn't happen, all I could think about was how much time and energy I was wasting risking my health and well-being for a company that didn't value me for a measly paycheck I wasn't sure would

My mom in the bottom left and her siblings, mom, and grandma Talambuhay Tuesdays: Week 2 Today marks the 40th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution that toppled the Marcos Sr. dictatorship. Life under Marcos Sr. was a period marred by intense state repression, the disappearance, illegal arrest, detention, torture and extrajudicial killing of thousands of Filipinos; An exponential increase of the country’s foreign debt and theft of billions of pesos from the treasury

Far left is my Grandma Lourdes, the middle two are her sisters, and on the right are my mom and 5 month old me First blog post of 2026!!! I recently changed the name of my newsletter and blog to "Anong Chika?" Tagalog slang for "What's the news? or What's the hot goss??" And this first blog post will be part of a (semi) weekly series called Talambuhay Tuesdays. (I say semi, because we'll see if I can stick to a weekly cadence lol) Talambuhay is Tagalog for "biography" and has

In December of 2019, I had the honor of visiting the Philippines on an exposure trip with members of Gabriela Portland and Gabriela Seattle. We visited semi-urban, semi-rural areas of the island of Panay in the Western Visayan Region, learning about the conditions impacting small fisherfolk, urban poor, and peasant communities that get ravaged every year by typhoon season, worsened annually by government corruption, corporate greed, and environmental degradation. Community m

Happy Filipino American History Month! It's been a while since I've done an intro--Hiii! It's Geleen When I first started Shop Halo Halo...