Marikit 🇵🇭💜

This week's work is now finished. Creating something new is really hard work. This week in particular, I had many different experiences. Right now, I feel like a traveler. I am stepping into an unknown world before my eyes. I can only pray that someday I will find the light I am aiming for ahead.

Beautiful 💜

Is she undocumented?

Ghislaine Maxwell is not a U.S. citizen. She was born in France and holds British citizenship. Maxwell has lived in the U.S. for many years.

She got due process, but brown ladies selling fruit do not have that luxury.

We know white, er..I mean why.
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My Filipina Response to the International Comparative Literature Association Conference in South Korea Kudos to the ICLA!

A few of my insights regarding the ICLA! Cheers!

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The Supermom is a Fantasy Reflecting on "I'm Every Woman, It's All In Me..."

There is no such thing as a supermom. Just moms who are trying to do their best. Cheers 🥂

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Thank you!

Gratitude Opening a New Chapter

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Thank you!

Photo of my husband, me, and Dr. Wendell Capili at the College of Arts and Letters graduation

Photo of family in the Philippines celebrating my PhD graduation

Photo of more family from the USA in the Philippines

Photo of my son, Noah, and husband, Arnell, at the UP College of Fine Arts, UP Diliman, Philippines, Bachelor of Arts in Studio Painting.

Wholesome stuff to be happy about: Got my PhD, got family from the US vacationing in the Philippines, and my son graduated from university. Whew. That’s a lot in one month! It’s been busy.

unacceptable.

ICE Official Reveals Miserable Conditions for U.S. Immigrants at Djibouti Prison A top ICE official said illness is common at Camp Lemonnier, with inadequate medical care and exposure to smoke from burn pits.

ICE Official Reveals Miserable Conditions for U.S. Immigrants at Djibouti Prison

A top ICE official said illness is common at Camp Lemonnier, with inadequate medical care and exposure to smoke from burn pits.

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This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

East LA

I recognize this is an exceedingly difficult time and for many of you this is a crisis on several levels. I respect those challenges and I don't consider press rights superior to the rights of others. However, all other rights depend on press rights. We cannot allow them to be chilled. This was explained by civil rights icon and longtime congressmember John Lewis: "If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings." Democracy cannot function without an informed public. The public cannot be informed without a free press. It is your shared responsibility to ensure press are able to do their job. Several of you have been supportive over the years and I thank you for that. But your support is now needed more than ever. Please ensure your teams are aware of these egregious violations and ensure you take all possible steps to protect the press, and thereby the public and our country itself. Sincerely, Adam Rose Press Rights Chair Los Angeles Press Club

Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend.

The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law.

Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow.

Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

This is true.

ICE raids in downtown LA… Trump’s America…

via: @FOXLA on IG

Brazo de Mariquit What My Tattoo Means to Me

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Pinay: What A Woman Leaves Behind Almost 50 and thinking of one's legacy

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ok I feel completely insane asking this but like

weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"

The Uncommon Courage of Gen Z in the Philippines The impact of Duterte on a generation

How authoritarianism can yield courage instead of fear.

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Here is the official Harvard University website!
www.harvard.edu
Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!!
+1 617-495-1000

The link to the Free Government courses is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Painting of a man and woman sitting in a garden, the woman to the right facing left with chin resting on her hand and man behind her to the left, she wears a white silk dress and fancy bonnet and the man wears a brown jacket and wide brimmed hat

Painting (detail) by Marie Bracquemond (1840-1916), French Impressionist who struggled against attempts to suppress her work, notably from her own husband, the painter Félix Bracquemond #womensart

This is what leadership looks like. Devastating that this has to be said! We are living in a frightening time.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.

This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them.

They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps.

Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.

The Truth Of The Matter And They Are Not Bringing Jobs Back….

My great uncle was lynched after coming home from WWI because he went to town & wanted a drink and they refused to serve him— a VET who just fought for this country

After missing for hours my granddaddy found him hanging from a tree

THATS why I protect my peace

Every time I shine it’s for THEM