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PPSSTT! The Planetary Pilipinx Sports Society Team Tour, FHN edition

🇵🇭💜🏀 Sports for the people

It’s always when Filipino American communities show up for each other through our collective love of sports!

Congratulations to us!✊🏾🙌🏿👊🏽
Thank you Mission Local for the coverage
Thank you to all communities of sports who support SOMA Pilipinas 🙏🏾 FHN is but one play we & our community-first organizational teammates run for our people!
The Dekada FUNdraising🤗🇵🇭 campaign continues. Y’all know Filipinos thrive in tournament play! Join us!

Collectively, we all ✨



Repost Mission Local
The Golden State Valkyries Filipino Heritage Night Sunday brought in a slew of Filipinos with a long history in South of Market, or SoMa.⁠
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“I think it’s really important to support women’s sports, and of course, Filipinos love basketball, and there is really a groundswell of support for Pinays and also Filipino families coming out for this game,” said Raquel Redondiez, director of SoMa Pilipinas, which cohosted the event. ⁠
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Before the game, Mission Local asked attendees what Filipino Heritage Night means to them. ⁠
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“It means family and celebrating our representation in these spaces,” Tina Solano said. ⁠
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“The Filipino community is very integral to Bay Area and California history, tonight is about being together and recognizing that,” Amanda Wilson Bergado said.⁠
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“It means everything,” Anabelle Hermosura said. “The culture, the family aspect, the food, the dancing, the music — I’m very proud to be a part of it.”⁠
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“As a first generation immigrant, it means supporting my culture and being unapologetically proud of it,” Erika Ventura said. ⁠
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Read more from Aaliyah Español-Rivas at the link in bio. ⁠
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📸: Aaliyah Español-Rivas, Zoe Malen

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I’m constantly in awe of ✨spirit✨and our benevolent ancestors. I’m in gratitude for the awesomeness to accompany visitors, locals, seekers of histories and movement artists and activists…

to this place we call Bulbancha

on the waters where Filipinos found refuge and bountiful sustenance

and where they built communities with and among others on the land where it meets the waters

in places apart from each other yet connected

the Kapwa ✨we yearn for, we seek, as it is in all of us already

waiting to be explored and tended to

awaiting for our ancestors and descendants to join us, help us

build and rebuild

in various forms of community configurations

Oh look! A free happy hour live musical performance with our ✨kapwatid!

And we nourish ourselves

And tend to our spirit guides

Connected to energies through place and experience

We commemorate Philippine Independence Day as well as Juneteenth

…and continue to join our efforts

eat more great food 🦪🦪🦪

Learn, ask questions, read, contemplate, listen…

return to the water; return to the land

Today is June 12.
In 2024, The Sideco House, the house of my family’s direct ancestor Crispulo Sideco, was designated a National Historical Landmark.

In 2017, Georgio, Myles, Markus and I were accompanied by my pinsan, Nanay Fel, to Nueva Ejica, and not only were we able to see the house, but we were reluctantly allowed inside by the caretaker at that time.

Markus, on Google Maps, then found Sideco Street nearby; an alleyway confirmed in name by the locals working in the photocopy shop on the street.

On this June 12, Araw Ng Kalayaan, I am reminded that, as I aim to accompany people into our collective histories as Filipinos in America, I too am continuing to my own identities✨accompanied with & alongside my loved ones.

On this Araw Ng Kalayaan, I hope for each & everyone of us to strive for the Kalayaan inherent in us already; to see each other as companions in it, and to fiercely gigil amidst the awesomeness of it.