It’s admittedly a bit late for this, but given that this is the last week of October, I’d like to step outside my role as “perpetually angry blogger” and wish you all a happy Pilipino American Heritage Month (and you can read all about it in our latest issue 13.1, out now!! … and has been out for like 2 weeks)
The subject enters my mind now partly because I just came back from Friendship Games last night, and it really was this absolutely amazing weekend. Although I was initially dismayed at how some people didn’t really appreciate our politicized theme, it really did make me recognize that given our history (the very history we use October to commemorate), any gathering of Pilipinos celebrating each other really is a politicized statement. Perhaps it is, gasp, in fact true that even in being happy, I am making a difference!
Coming here from New York, I’m very pleased with how awesome the different facets of our API community here are. I wish all of you the same sort of transformative experiences with your communities that I just had. ;]