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Filipino American Comedian Rex Navarrete in Chicago Ngayon! August 28 – 30, 2013

Edit, 13 September 2013: If you missed Rex’s shows and his radio appearance on Vocalo, hit play! Joke lang… but I mean it. – my mom In every joke, there is a nugget of truth. I think that’s why many Filipinos and Fil-Ams connect so deeply with comedian Rex Navarette. His comedy, while hilarious for … Continue reading Filipino American Comedian Rex Navarrete in Chicago Ngayon! August 28 – 30, 2013

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“Home is complicated”: Thoughts of returning from an undocumented Filipina

“We are talking about papers, here,” said activist and documentary filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas. I heard this emphatic, simple statement when the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist formerly of the Washington Post spoke at the University of Chicago on May 9, 2012. The Filipino-born, California-raised Vargas entitled his June 2011, New York Times Magazine-published letter, My life … Continue reading “Home is complicated”: Thoughts of returning from an undocumented Filipina