8 March is globally celebrated as the International Women’s Day–a day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential.

To all of us women, HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!

Let us honor all mothers, wives, grandmothers, aunts, daughters and colleagues. Let us honor our Filipina countrymen. Let us honor all women all over the world, including those who continue to be deprived of their basic right, and those who suffer from all forms of abuse and discrimination.

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In continuation to Noemi’s post, here is the talk I presented at the Helena Benitez Global Forum on Women, Power and Sustainable Development at the Manila Hotel–the Filipina Images’ advocacy to local women leaders from different local government units nationwide such as mayors, vice-mayors, vice-governors, Board members, etc., on the occasion of the 1st International Seminar and Partnership Consultation on Gender Justice and Sustainable Development in celebration of International Women’s Month Celebration.Hesitant to talk about this closed issue–that was my initial reaction. But come to think of it, the negative issue has spurred an advocacy, that is The Filipina Images.. (more…)

This billboard caught my attention–it has intrigued me to bits, such that I did a little research about it. I am yet to find out where it is physically located, though I have seen the billboard of the winner (girl in center) somewhere in Guadalupe, EDSA. The change is astonishing, it is a total make-over to the max, putting together most of the products and services that a Belo or Calayan would promote: liposuction, body sculpting, breast augmentation, skin whitening, nose lift, face lift, eye bag removal, eyelash implantation, laser hair removal, even perhaps ortohodontist and salon works.

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I am sharing with you a recent comment received from “An American Male” in one of my articles in The D Spot:

Using the term “Sexy Mom” is a good thing and I will tell you why. The internet is a “context based, indexed filing system” and therefore, when web pages change the meaning of general context from negative to positive it becomes a trend that like a blotter, at once gets spot, then starts to become saturated.

Picture it as a cup of vinegar in a large vat. We add an equal part of apple cider and it still is bitter… not sweet at all by eventually, adding enough cider begins to sweeten the brew until finally, many gallons/liters later, the vinegar can not be tasted at all and we have a context that is pure MASARAP!

Keep up the great image changing work and the fine perception of what I call the “True Filipina”

Now it is up to you to change your perception.

Cordially!

Edward

This is indeed what The Filipina Images is all about: to change the perception of the Filipina, to continue to showcase and honor the wonderful, diverse Filipina images

Here is a poem I wrote on the Filipina Maiden during my “innocent” years, when I was 15 years old. Gosh! that was more than 30 years ago! Now, the Filipina Maiden has become The Sexy Mom.

The Filipina Maiden

She is a picture of simplicity and beauty
The typical girl of our new society
She possesses oriental features and means
Showing that she comes from the Philippines.

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