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1/ Happy 15th day of #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth #FAHM and the start of the 6th Filipino American International Book Festival! Do you know about the Filipino American Center and its librarian Abraham Ignacio at the SF Main Library? sfexaminer.com/archives/filip…

Join Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Allyson Tintiango-Cubales, Theodore S. Gonzalves and I tomorrow afternoon, 1-2 PM at the 6th Filipino American International Book Festival! I’m so looking forward to being in conversation with them.

.Filipino American International Book Festival continues tomorrow! Day 1 was *amazing* and Sunday will have more fantastic panels, book signings, and kidlit book bundle giveaways Check out the schedule here: filbookfestival.org/page0/ #filbookfest #filbookfest6 #filtheshelves

Hearing Barbara Jane Reyes read an excerpt from her book, “Letters to a Young Brown Girl,” earlier today at the Filipino American International Book Festival was invigorating, moving, and empowering. 😮‍💨😤 chills! damn #letterstoayoungbrowngirl

VISUAL STORYTELLERS: A GRAPHIC ROUNDTABLE at the SIXTH FILIPINO AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL in San Francisco, CA. @jaenarae Filipino American International Book Festival @studioroxas

Kim-Hoa Ung 黃金花 Filipino American International Book Festival Sari-Sari Storybooks The dance with long bamboo poles is called tinikling. No, they just did this kulintang for us. (I misspelled it in the original post). However, there was a 2nd number. It was awesome, Kim-Hoa 😍

What a JOY to be a part of Filipino American International Book Festival! It was incredibly empowering to celebrate our stories, voices, & community—& share it w others. Much gratitude to @newharddesign, Edwin Lozada + PAWA, SF Public Library, & all the organizers/volunteers! ❤️ #filipinoamericanhistorymonth

So stoked to meet you, Mae, and look forward to reading your books❣️✨ #WritingCommmunity #kidlit #FilTheShelves

Happy book birthday, @studioroxas + TEAM POM!

If you missed the AMAZING BRILLIANT Maria Ressa in conversation w Benjamin Pimentel at the Filipino American International Book Festival, don’t worry, we recorded it. This is an important & powerful convo, it will linger. youtu.be/U9w8uknIZWE

At the SF Public Library Filipino American International Book Festival we bought 25 books & comic books & got them signed! Enjoyed the panels & meeting authors & illustrators. Was lucky to be one of the presenters. What an amazing experience! Thanks🙏 Will be posting about the📚 later. #FilTheShelves #FilAm

If you were at the Indie Publishing or Inkstorm 2 Panels at #FilBookFest last Sunday, or the Uncle Tito party, consider testing this week & monitoring yourself for 14 days. If you test postive, DM us for contact tracing purposes. #Covid is still with us, keep safe, all!

"We may identify with different demonyms, hyphenations, time zones, and citizenships, but if we can all partake in each other’s experiences as in a pagsasalo-salo, we may yet recognize ourselves in a first-person plural, in which our pronouns are we, tayo, atin."

This portrait by JJ Jumoc-Casas from the Fil-Am Book Festival in SF (where I gave a keynote in Tagalog eek!) gives me such museum vibes!

It's #GivingTuesday! 🇵🇭📚Our sponsoring org, PAWA, needs your help to continue their mission: promoting Filipinx/o/a literature, writers and artists through publication, events, and scholarships. A donation of any size is much appreciated. gofundme.com/f/givingtuesda…

FilBookFest is coming back ✨ Stay tuned to our Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for more info, and DM us if you're interested in joining our volunteer team 🙋🏻 See you before long, tortang talong!

We're here, today's the day!! Stay tuned for more!

Opening keynote by Ninotchka Rosca, powerful and elegant!