Despite breaking through stereotypes, the image Filipinas in Egypt as a meek wife and a domestic helper persists, that it has even become an adjective. Sometime before the COVID pandemic, I met…
Writer and poet Bles Chavez-Bernstein reflects on aging gracefully, pursuing your passion, retirement as an expat, and death and legacy. A distant memory. A momentary daze. An image appears, slowly taking shape…a…
Eliza, a Pinay from Antique, was just about to start building a family in Kyiv when Russia invaded Ukraine. Then her husband enlisted in the army. A portrait of a Filipina’s life…
Germany-based Filipina expat Undine Homena-Lasater is an avid mountaineer, who has no plans of climbing Mont Blanc nor the Mt. Everest. “I wouldn’t call myself a mountaineer. I am an outdoors person…