Pinay Power Here

I just surfed the web for nearly 2 hour straight after I googled "Pinay News."

Two things:

Good LAWD there's a lot out there

and

Good LAWD there's not much out there.

Let's start with the positive:
Smiling and proud, I am glad to say my list of Pinay resources in my link list is growing. Just in case more Pinays decide to stop by, you can find a healthy and growing abundance of goodness right here. There are several threads and blogs out there that provide strong, live evidence of the Pinay fighting spirit. Mabuhay! ::brown fists throw high::

The downers:
Frowning and brow furrowed, my search confirms my belief that Filipinas are still fighting the domestic and degraded sex-idol image. There are only mountains ahead. The erotic and exotic Filipina concept simply drenches the internet right now. And I'm on a campaign to change that. I'm going to entitle my posts with as many Pinay, Filipina, and Fil-Am, APIA women-centered issues as I can so I can make a dent in this expanding internet. Somewhere, there is a young Filipina surfing the internet just like me. I refuse to let the cheap advertisements help define her. I refuse.

There is energy out there. A lot of energy. There are artists, photographers, dancers, philosophers, and cartoonists fighting to dispel the Filipina demure image and replace it with more fierce, hilarious, intellectual REAL womyn.

Mabuhay!

2 Marbles for the Day, Young Girls in the System and Beauty Iran

Cases like the Jena 6, ones that have claimed national attention, disturb us to our bone. However, just because media and the internet have been introducing these case to us now doesn't mean that injustices haven't been going on for years, decades, lifetimes even.

Bfp has a fantastic and haunting collection of institutionalized violence against girls, including instances like a young teen getting arrested for writing, "OKAY" on her desk and another getting pepper-sprayed after biting a police officers arm.

If you are an advocate for women's rights, if you are looking to make this place just a little bit better after you pass, then you know that what we leave behind and what WE DO for our youth NOW is of critical magnitude. This could be a prophetic glimpse into what happens when we become so focused on WOMYN that we forget that WOC were all once young girls.

Big thanks to BFP.

For bloggers and independant media makers, we take it upon ourselves to out into the world what we think is going unseen and unheard. If you are like me and believe that photography is one of the ways into truth (not with Photoshop) and freedom, go here and dare to think of our Iranian sisters and brothers who are caught in the scaling violence and threats of our US-led war into the Middle East.

H/T to Nez.