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🇵🇭 professor emeritus @ucdasa people’s professor @liberating.education founder & momma @amadokhaya farmer & land steward @remaginationfarm
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FAHMzine 2026: Pinagmulan (Vol. 5, No. 2) Cover by Mia Tarampi (@mia._tcha) Filipino American History Month asks us to remember how our community came to be, and to look honestly at what it took to get here. In the first issue of FAHMzine 2026: Pinagmulan, we returned to childhood memories, cultural roots, and the early experiences that shape who we are. In this second issue, we turn outward, toward the present-day realities of immigration and the ways our community shows up for one another. For many Filipino families, the story of arriving, staying, and building a life in the U.S. is still being written, and it is not always a safe or certain one. This issue speaks to the undocumented experience and the impact of ICE on our communities, while uplifting the organizations working to protect, educate, and support those affected. It also celebrates the many ways Filipino Americans create belonging: through community organizations, local businesses, basketball, and music. OYFA’s 39th Advocacy Chairs, Lindsay Almonte (@lindsayalmonte) and Lyle Mora (@lyllylcrocodile), reached out to the leaders of organizations working directly with our communities to learn how they are supporting those affected and carrying our roots forward. Alongside their voices, this issue spotlights the culture that keeps us connected, from the businesses that feed us to the music and basketball that bring us together. A special thank you to our Advocacy Committee, our contributors, and everyone who has supported us at every step. Swipe through to read the full issue!
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How are you celebrating #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth this year? If you want to learn more about AKFADA and Filipina/o/x histories come to one of these talks happening THIS WEEKEND! -------------------- Reposted from @sacramento_archives_crawl As part of the Sacramento Archives Crawl, the Sacramento Public Library's Sacramento Room will host a talk from 1-2 pm featuring Abby Gayle Principe, PhD Candidate in History at UC Riverside, who will discuss the history of the first wave of Filipino immigration to the Central Valley and Sacramento area. A moderated presentation will follow with Christella Maldonado, UC Riverside PhD Candidate in History. -------------------- Reposted from @filbookfestival Closing out the weekend, we're honored to welcome Dr. Robyn Rodriguez as our Sunday Keynote at #FilBookFest. 🗓Sunday, October 18 12:15 PM 📍San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin St Professor emeritus of Asian American Studies and founder of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies at UC Davis, Dr. Rodriguez is the author of In Lady Liberty's Shadow and Migrants for Export. Since stepping away from the professoriate in 2023, she's carried her work forward as a self-described "people's professora" - as managing editor of the Alon journal, series editor of the Critical Filipinx Studies book series at UW Press, and director of the Amado Khaya Initiative Join us for a morning of hard-won wisdom and stories that push us to imagine something better! @madprofessora 🌐 drrobynrodriguez.com --------------------------------------- #fahm #archivesmonth
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The #FAHM2026 theme is “Beyond the Margins: Centering Intersectional Filipino American Histories.” Filipino American National Historical Society (@fanhs_national) invites our community to recognize “the contributions, struggles, and lived experiences of Filipino Americans whose stories have been typically overlooked, underrepresented, or excluded from traditional historical narratives. By centering intersectional histories [...] we move toward a fuller, more nuanced, and more inclusive understanding of Filipino American history.” Given that the U.S. has recently marked the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we want to center the experiences of undocumented and other marginalized Filipinos in its immediate wake. To understand ICE terror in our communities today, we need to understand its roots in the “global war on terror,” launched in response to 9/11. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing more on this historical moment and its impact on us. We’re excited to announce the launch of our AKFADA account where we will be showcasing items from our physical and stand-alone digital collection! #FAHM #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth #KnowHistoryKnowSelf
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🇵🇭 Happy Filipino American History Month! 🇵🇭 13,000+ Filipino American educators and growing! According to 2025–26 educator data, more than 7,000 certificated and 6,000 classified Filipino American educators are serving students in TK–12 schools across California. That’s an increase of more than 2,000 Fil-Am educators since 2019–20 and it doesn’t even include our educators in higher education! We are here. We are growing. We continue to make history. Since 1988, the Filipino American Educators Association of California (FAEAC) has brought together Fil-Am educators from across the state to build community, strengthen networks, provide professional learning, and advocate for policies and programs that support our educators and students. More than 35 years later, our community continues to grow and so must we. As the needs of Filipino American educators evolve, FAEAC wants to evolve with you. We want to know who you are, where you are, and how we can support you. This Filipino American History Month, we’re launching our FAEAC Membership Campaign. ✨ Be seen. Be connected. Be counted. 🇵🇭 Join FAEAC today. ❤️ Invite another Fil-Am educator to join you. Whether you are a teacher, classified professional, counselor, administrator, professor, retired educator, or future educator—there is a place for you in FAEAC. 13,000+ strong. Imagine what we can build together. Please join us—and spread the word throughout your networks. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/4hnaUxN Mabuhay! 🇵🇭 For more information visit: https://www.faeac.info/ Or contact: faeac2015@gmail.com Salamat Po, Dr. Robyn Rodriguez, President Dr. Tracie Noriega, Executive Director
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What a gift to have Dr. Robyn Rodriguez in our space today. To sit in conversation with someone who has spent her career creating spaces, programs, and possibilities that didn’t exist before her… and to hear her speak so deeply about the richness of our community was super inspiring ❤️❤️ And for someone who has seen, studied, built with, and advocated for Filipino communities across California to recognize the magic of what is happening right here? That affirmation means so much to us. Today was full of stories, laughter, connection, and reminders of just how much lives within our community. We hope this is only the beginning of many more meaningful conversations to come 🇵🇭 📸: @dustinverzosa.video
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Closing out the weekend, we're honored to welcome Dr. Robyn Rodriguez as our Sunday Keynote at #FilBookFest! 🌿✨ 📅 Sunday, October 18 🕐 12:15 PM 📍 San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin St Professor emeritus of Asian American Studies and founder of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies at UC Davis, Dr. Rodriguez is the author of In Lady Liberty's Shadow and Migrants for Export. Since stepping away from the professoriate in 2023, she's carried her work forward as a self-described "people's professora" — as managing editor of the Alon journal, series editor of the Critical Filipinx Studies book series at UW Press, and director of the Amado Khaya Initiative. 💬🌾 Join us for a morning of hard-won wisdom and stories that push us to imagine something better! 🌸 📸 @madprofessora 🌐 drrobynrodriguez.com
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✨ With the legends. Today, I got to connect with community and have real conversations about the issues impacting Filipinx folks in Sacramento, mental health, housing/homelessness, job insecurity, climate change, navigating systems, and lack of resources. I’m grateful to be in these spaces because they remind me of the power of community and our collective stories. When we gather our stories, we can create the programs and services our community needs. Help me shape a Filipinx mental health program for Sacramento by taking the survey: 🔗 https://bit.ly/SacMHSurvey Thank you to @ugnayfilipino @fiercecoalition @amadokhaya for hosting Kwentuhan on the Road: Sacramento Speak Up and Get Fierce! ✨ This was a beautiful reminder that when we gather, we create. When we speak up, we move. And when we organize together, we can build something our community can truly call our own. ✨
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Continuing our conversation on sustainable living with a specific focus on climate change, emergency preparedness for our households and the community.
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Our Executive Director, Dr. Tracie Noriega and President, Dr. Robyn Rodríguez, met today to discuss our plans for the 26-27 school year. Interested in joining our Board? Send us a DM! 🤗
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📣 CALL FOR SUPPORT We had the profound honor of sitting with Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez @MadProfessora for Rising for Our Motherlands episode 3, whose life and work reflect a deeply powerful and life-altering return to the land. 🌱 In June and then July, Robyn’s farm — @ReimaginationFarm, dedicated to nourishing family and community — was devastated by two wildfires. The family has been working tirelessly to recover, facing not only the overwhelming challenges of navigating legal issues and insurance claims, but the emotional and physical toll of such a traumatic event. We are inviting our community to donate to their GoFundme. ❤️‍🩹 Your support will help Robyn, Josh, Zee, and their extended farm family meet their immediate needs during this emergency and ensure they can continue their vital work with the community. Any contribution, no matter the size, will make a meaningful difference in their recovery and help them rebuild spaces that nurture and heal so many. Your kindness and generosity are deeply appreciated. 💗 Give now by going to @RemaginationFarm & cIicking the Iink in bio, or go to www.gofundme.com/f/remaginationfarm
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We @joshuaxiongvang and I ❤️ this work. Over the last 4 years, we’ve developed a land-based curriculum that brings together ethnic studies, environmental justice frameworks, ancestral healing and wellness practices, art, and food. It is as impactful for students as it is for us as learning facilitators. At the end of every course we teach here, tears are shed. Happy tears. Tears that come from the joy of being in a better relationship with the land and with the community. Tears that come from the healing of intergenerational trauma and a new connection to the ancestors. Tears of disappointment too, mainly because no one wants to leave. That was certainly true with @crc.apida.hawks.center and the other groups we’ve hosted this year. Nearly all of the students who came out in April from @crc.apida.hawks.center decided to come back to the farm on their own in early June. I, @madprofessora have taught at the university-level for many years, and truly, I’ve had more impact in one weekend at the farm than my 10-15 week college courses. The fire will have to put a pause on this work. For now. Please consider contributing to our GoFundMe (link in bio) so we can start our work up again soon.
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