Arm The Girls

Part of We Are The Ones’s series of shoots for Arm The Girls, a mutual aid initiative building power and safety with BIPOC queer and trans femmes + a conversation with Guerrilla Davis and Pearl Teese on their experiences as Afro-Filipinos navigating anti-Blackness, gender- and sex-based hate in our communities

Magazinekali diwaMarch 31, 2024style, fashion, filipinofashion, terno, culture, hellapinaymag, keithlafuente, designer, fashiondesigner, filipinoidentity, queerness, Magazine, pearlteese, editorial, kalidiwa, Identity, filipiniana

Keith Lafuente Explores Filipino American Fashion through Ternos, Anime and Boy’s Love

His work channels drag, fantasy, art, and queer identity

FashionCamay AbrahamJuly 20, 2021style, Style, camayabraham, fashion, filipinofashion, terno, culture, hellapinaymag, keithlafuente, designer, fashiondesigner, identity, filipinoidentity, queerness, drag, cosplay, mahalkita

forever bastos, no longer mabait

how bad girl narratives both free and foil pinays

Voiceskali diwaFebruary 25, 2021asianamerican, Roots + Identity, identity, filipinoidentity, filipinx, naturalhair, curlyhair, Identity, feb2021, selflove, filipinas with curly hair, bastos, queerness, kalidiwa, popular

Filipinas With Curly Hair (& Other Phrases I've Googled)

On learning to love my natural hair texture through unlearning colonial mentality

VoicesMaxine DimalantaFebruary 16, 2021asianamerican, Roots + Identity, identity, filipinoidentity, filipinx, naturalhair, curlyhair, Identity, feb2021, selflove, filipinas with curly hair, popular

Curves In My Eyes and Sides

Growing up Pinay, self-love and acceptance are ever growing and transforming

VoicesIsidora TorresJanuary 17, 2019identity, Roots + Identity, representation, filipinoidentity, january19, selflove, beauty, voices, Identity

Smashing Hollywood’s Stereotypes

On being “Filipino enough,” reclaiming our narratives, and the importance of representation in film

VoicesGuest ContributorOctober 6, 2018identity, october, Roots + Identity, hollywood, representation, fahm, hapa, filipinoidentity, voices, Identity

Undocumented & Filipinx: Kat's Story

"When you come out as gay, you risk being rejected by your family and friends; when you come out as undocumented, you risk being rejected by an entire country."