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🇵🇭 Filipino culture & languages through children’s books 📚
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Tagalog Filipino, Cebuano Bisaya, Ilokano Iloko
#filipinolanguagemovement
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Sorry kaibigan (friends) I’ve been super busy with work and home life lately and haven’t stayed on top of my IG posts. More content coming later in the month.

For now, here’s a little bit about me... My dad named me after a ship in the Philippines, the MS Lyra. So I felt a bit like Moana, the sea 🌊 was calling me. I enlisted in the Navy 👩🏽‍✈️ right out of high school. It was an quite an adventure and strongly shaped who I am today.
Thank you to my fellow shipmates and to all 🇺🇸veterans and their families!

#veteransday2019 #filipinoamericanveterans

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Day 2 of @ctulocal1 Strike ✊🏽
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I grew up in Chicago Public Schools and now my kids are attending CPS as well. Their school lost their long-time librarian last year due to funding cuts. 😡
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Explaining a “strike” to my kids was easy, since we just learned about the Delano 🍇 Strike!
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Last weekend, we went to the Journey for Justice book tour and met Gayle from @bridgedeltapublishing ! The book tells the story of Larry Itliong, a 🇵🇭🇺🇸 labor organizer, who fought for the rights of California agricultural workers in the 1960s.
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When workers are not treated fairly and have unsafe working conditions, we need to speak up! 📣
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We support CPS teachers!
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#readfilipino #journeyforjustice #chicagoteachersstrike #supportchicagoteachers

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Come celebrate 🇵🇭🇺🇸 History Month with us in Chicago!
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Activities for all ages 🧓🏽🧔🏻👩🏽👧🏻👶🏽
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🔥 raffle prizes and ✨ swag bags!
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A portion of proceeds will benefit 🤝the Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment @afirechicago
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Hosted by @urbanohana & @bubblesacademy with @momumentalthing @windycityxover @celine.tg @blackbeltsoprano @mommacuisine @tasteofthephilippines Whitney Young HS, Anthony T., Jen B. and activities from @thetagalogproject & @filamlearners .

#FAHM2019 #readfilipino #filipinokids #filipinoamerican #filam #pinay #filipinx #chicagofilipinos

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The 5th 🇵🇭🇺🇸 International Book Festival is happening this weekend October 12 - 13, 2019 at the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library on 100 Larkin Street. The festival is organized by the Philippine-American Writers and Artists, Inc (PAWA) http://pawainc.com/
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📚This year's theme is “Isang Mundó (One World): Humanity, Diversity, and Resistance in the Arts". -
📚Children's programming includes @sarisaristorybooks @when.do.we.eat @erctigz @randyribay ,Tony Robles, Justine Villanueva and many more!
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📚Full schedule at https://www.filbookfestival.org/
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📚So many amazing authors, illustrators, and publishers will be there. I really wish I could have gone this year!

#readfilipino #filambookfest #filipino#filipinoauthors #filipinoillustrators #filipinokidsbooks #FAHM2019

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Chicago let's show some ❤️ for Gayle Romasanta @bridgedeltapublishing this weekend!
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Learn about Filipino American History and the role of Filipinos in the fight for a farmworkers union in the 1960s. -
Free event - RSVP at https://www.artful.ly/store/events/18374
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I'll be at the 1pm Saturday event at Budlong Library. See you there!
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#readfilipino #filipino #filipinoauthors #filipinoillustrators #filipinokidsbooks #larryitliong #FAHM2019 #chicagofilipinos

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Chicago 🇵🇭 Restaurant Week 2019
Sarap! (Tasty)
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#chicagofrw #isffachicago #chicagofilipinofood #lumpia #pancit #avocadoicecream

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Creating videogames for intercultural learning, how cool right? That's exactly what non-profit InterIntellectus created with The Girl Who Sees, @the_girlwhosees , a 2D point-and-click PC 🕹adventure that showcases Filipino history and culture amidst the backdrop of Japanese occupation during World War II.
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We are introduced to 👧🏽Quina Laban (pronounced "KEE-nah", yes kinda like the food quinoa). I’m already loving the game since laban, means to fight in Tagalog. In the forest she encounters 🧟‍♀️mythical creatures and starts a quest to translate ancient scrolls written in 🔆Baybayin into Tagalog and English (a pre-colonial indigenous script of the Philippines).
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The game has two modes of play, ❓discovery mode which involves answering multiple choice trivia questions or ⚔️battle mode which is the traditional role-playing fight mode.
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Throughout the game Quina collects items such as kamote (sweet potato) and other trinkets that she eventually trades for information or skills. There is an albularya (healer) where Quina and her companion Edgar can make potions for special attacks. The attacks have awesome names like 🖐🏾Palo Strike (palo = to hit), 👡Tsinelas Stun (tsinelas = sandals), and Bawang Bomb 💣(bawang = garlic).
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Available for play on computers on Windows or Apple OSX. The game is not available for mobile devices or tablets.
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Use the link in my bio to get 10% off the game, but act fast, as there are limited downloads at this discounted price.
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I did receive a complimentary copy, but the opinions here are all my own.
#readfilipino #filipino #thegirlwhosees #filipinovideogame #filipinogamers #tagalog #baybayin #filipinomythology

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