https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/sisyphuswasneversohilarious monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/e6a0532d-224d-4f5f-95f8-9bca2232980d/IMG_3804.jpeg News - Sisyphus was never so hilarious! - Make it stand out The intrepid explorers of Columbus, Our Idiot Hero, including Marco Polo, Rodrigo del Triana, Bartolome de las Casas, and of course the idiot hero himself, Christopher Columbus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/e8228556-8f5d-46eb-96d6-418848089950/IMG_3803.jpeg News - Sisyphus was never so hilarious! - Make it stand out Martha Wollner bringing Sisphyus back from the dead - oops! https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/reclaiming-space-in-a-colonized-history monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/thank-you-saltonstall monthly 0.5 2025-05-02 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/echoes-writers-group-at-primary-stages monthly 0.5 2025-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/248d25d2-17b2-431c-a1fd-4340d5b7d66c/IMG_4558.jpeg News - Echoes Writers Group at Primary Stages - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/without-me-they-cant-write-the-words monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1729615100943-XN16L88L6ZMFTHD556TF/IMG_1829.jpeg News - “Without me, they can’t write the words” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/savoring-the-spring monthly 0.5 2024-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713631496087-CWD2N4IYMJ8I7HRQYU01/_DSC1408.jpg News - Savoring the Spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713631692836-H6ZNYAAP7OORUJ0N1NDF/_DSC1423.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713631501194-JZINTTIYI4A9KN6M9JIA/_DSC1421.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713635766490-PDAG5TIKW9NBHCLTTA0Z/_DSC1486.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713635755105-3F4ROBQKD13CM3HUSJ2J/_DSC1468.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713635754450-SUYJSOY595MLO6V5C6V3/_DSC1433.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713635771432-TQBHE1RGYR32VOTQN8H3/_DSC1527.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713635785496-2SQGHKBTLT78RJHO79G6/_DSC1533.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713635788421-U9XITUXV910BNAS36G0Q/_DSC1585.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713635795628-DTKJV3X5UC0SV5CCP8NZ/_DSC1602.jpg News - Savoring the Spring Nikon D750, 24-70mm 2.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713636129509-25948QEU18T6IOEUC51M/IMG_9048.jpg News - Savoring the Spring iPhone Pro Max 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713636130577-HGV94RGDRRMAH8IA52CX/IMG_E9001.jpg News - Savoring the Spring iPhone Pro Max 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713636125006-D3EY59DI05672NNJER1R/IMG_9044.jpg News - Savoring the Spring iPhone Pro Max 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713636141326-QLRKO0ORPDNTHYZK46IN/IMG_E9003.jpg News - Savoring the Spring iPhone Pro Max 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713636140798-40US9RAVJO5KEXZ58WAK/IMG_E9045.jpg News - Savoring the Spring iPhone Pro Max 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713636121018-4PAABYIUZ07QA8YQUSZ2/IMG_9043.jpg News - Savoring the Spring iPhone Pro Max 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713636110659-U63NYWZP073UHZG6K1RS/IMG_9033.jpg News - Savoring the Spring iPhone Pro Max 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1713636110584-H7Y9BTZPG4ZIBXTEA01X/IMG_9031.jpg News - Savoring the Spring iPhone Pro Max 14 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/power-of-words-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/059ced7f-6546-4bd1-9ca5-423f566339c3/Amanda+Lacson+Presenter.jpg News - Power of Words Conference I recently had the opportunity to present the following workshop at TLAN’s Power of Words conference: Using TLA to Create and Deepen Your Family Archive: Your family archive is the collection of memories, photographs and objects that represent and are made by you and your family, whether that’s your family of origin or family of choice. In this workshop we will explore techniques in oral history, historical research, and presenting your family archive. By incorporating TLA into your family archive collection, you will not only document your family history, but deepen your connection to your family stories for this generation and beyond. Please bring writing implements (pen/paper, computer) for writing exercises that will generate a roadmap for creating your family archive. This was a teaser/introductory workshop and I’m looking forward to expanding the workshop for further explorations. Stay tuned! https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/play-date-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700934019722-HG1MWS0J6ZJZMXBOBYQP/Playdate+Image.jpg News - Play Date I wrote a monologue for Play Date, an event that kicked off Playful Substance’s 2023-2024 season. As described: In this opening monologue of Our Idiot Hero or the Trial of Christopher Columbus we meet Cristobal Columbo! (Oh, Christopher Columbus, scuzi) played by Patrick Michael Valley. Cris is spending his afterlife on an island full of natural beauty but clearly not as rich or as “civilized” as Marco Polo had described. Through Amanda Faye Lacson’s hilarious text we meet a preening, egotistical Columbus who is struggling to maintain his legacy as the statues and monuments to his achievements crumble around him. The event’s theme was “3 monologues 3 ways”: so along with my monologue, we got to see monologues by Donald Wollner and Tori Barron, each directed and shifted by Dan Renkin. Hearing the audience response and listening to the different interpretations of the piece makes me excited to get back to the page and develop more (Disco Marco Polo, anyone?)! https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/goddard-in-the-world-sam-rebelein-amp-mike-alvarez-return monthly 0.5 2023-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/739db6e4-bfba-443a-bc25-d1e4ee9604cf/Blog+Cover.png News - Podcast: Sam Rebelein & Mike Alvarez Return! Mike Alvarez and Sam Rebelein returned to Goddard in the World podcast to discuss their recent publications: Mike’s new autoethnography, Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal and Sam’s horror novel Edenville. We talk about their books individually and together: how and why they use body horror to enhance their narratives; monsters as metaphors for grief, loss, and trauma; and the act of writing itself and how it can re-traumatize or heal the writer. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/brooklyn-raga-massive-at-chelsea-factory monthly 0.5 2023-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944558528-S1H0NYJ7SO3BPOT00236/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8261.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944537177-Z58DOEX4C3HYMNRXQ7PH/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8060.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944538797-E3UFZM2O5SKKSUXIWQ61/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8062.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944547639-SS6EJ2WIUPL2KQ0N93ZF/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8091.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944545510-X1BWLK1VXHFT28ZZTV4E/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8127.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944555311-QW6DBSN77QJNFXBXZENR/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8179.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944632772-GS2JH9I7Y6PRWDG5XIOJ/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7465.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944633213-Y33RZZRJ4QT9LO40Q3WB/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7522.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700943686596-SEZLECSAIMKF84D9T9RM/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7501.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700943686071-K5N21H8SB3JLKUMNSG42/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7508.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700943702115-EUFKILSD37BZZSZWMSAE/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7545.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700943703612-7YUMYJDTSXJBOQ6TWCSY/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7621.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700943710780-GLD6W1X0M7GQEIS40ER4/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7634.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700943708848-NISO46OQKX7Q23AKVNUZ/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7970.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944512813-J1PC86N6A2SRIGBTCIW3/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive--3.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944512439-AUX294U8HMWV0O51UUDO/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive--4.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944515784-NVSG67XTMB822O03ESLG/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8297.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700944516425-1JALQGVNMFBKMXE05HDW/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8326.jpg News - Brooklyn Raga Massive - Barkha Patel https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/raised-pinay monthly 0.5 2023-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/77df711b-6ef5-4b05-af69-366c7c9956d9/RP5+Save+the+Date+1.png News - Raised Pinay I am so grateful that this writers group and devised theater piece crossed my path, starting late 2022. I am part of the 5th generation of Raised Pinay, which focused on Filipina (Pinay) motherhood; so, people who grew up Pinay and are raising Pinay or Pinoy children. We explored colonial trauma in and disconnection from the body; our children as a guide toward healing; looking at what our ancestors passed down to us; and eroticism, grief and joy as part of the mother experience. We devised a theater piece in Spring 2023 and performed at El Puente, a community human rights institution in Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700956573740-1YZ2X79QT2LF3UE2FJ41/7e5c8734-8d64-41f9-a5c6-cf09d1b62d31.JPG News - Raised Pinay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1700956577289-5L5H6S4GTJAMM8ZX8P0K/6b8bf3db-e7e8-4f76-879e-d94589a6494a.JPG News - Raised Pinay https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/gtwdubin monthly 0.5 2023-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/bba1733e-a901-42e4-bb41-58c50f6a47a1/Podcast+Announcement+Minna+Dubin.png News - Podcast: Minna Dubin I had an amazing conversation with Minna Dubin, writer of MOM RAGE: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood available now wherever books are sold. Minna’s writing has often tackled hard subjects that people aren’t supposed to talk about, from sex, race, and interracial relationships. Now, as a leading feminist voice on mother rage, Minna writes about mothers and what society expects of them, from career shifts to emotional calm and reserve, and how these expectations can breed a crisis of loneliness and yes, rage, in mothers. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Facilitation monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Photography monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Theater monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Writing monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Podcast monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Workshops monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Street+Scenes monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Performance monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/category/Interview monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/iPhone monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Filipina monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Transformative+Language+Arts monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/motherhood monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Christopher+Columbus monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Raga monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Family+Archive monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/writing monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/classical+Indian monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/devised+theater monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/dance monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/decolonialism monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/behind-the-scenes monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/process monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/rehearsal monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/horror monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/nonfiction monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/monsters monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/performance monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Nikon monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Pinay monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/autoethnography monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Oral+History monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/Chelsea+Factory monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/satire monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/news/tag/movement monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/workshopevents daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/workshopevents/2025/7/29/creating-our-caregiver-community monthly 0.5 2025-07-18 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/workshopevents/power-of-words-conference-speaking-with-the-ancestors monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1752704538995-6CHL05YIOIRXWTCPZJZ4/Amanda+Lacson_POW25.jpg Workshop Events - Power of Words Conference: Speaking with the Ancestors - Make it stand out It’s kind of weird seeing my face next to each other, but the double smiles should show you how dang fun it was to be in KC last year, especially with my mentor Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, and new friends Marialena Medrano and Vi Tranh! https://www.amandafayelacson.com/workshopevents/igp3bfzassy8bc6iy4qm8qaex020q5 monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1752701618811-J7PY8VG8ZEUO5I8ZGBWD/CWWW+magic+swoop.jpg Workshop Events - Changing the World with Words - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/workshopevents/activating-your-family-history monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1752699586510-TDUO9DEI863U9PECTOYK/Activating+Your+Family+History+promo.png Workshop Events - Activating Your Family History - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/workshopevents/activatingfamilyarchive monthly 0.5 2024-04-21 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note daily 0.75 2025-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/b4095a2f-a67a-45fd-aa80-f21e1431da1e/AL_029.jpg https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/2025/11/26/a-tale-of-two-albums monthly 0.5 2025-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764259186512-9E41KI4CPMHNSUG8J5OE/1975_Cebu001_Restored.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums - My dad left the Philippines in 1975, less than a year after my older sister Almira was born. There’s a blurry black and white photo of him on the Manila tarmac, where he looks every bit the 1970s style: long shiny black hair, disco shirt, fitted tight on his skinny frame, bell bottom pants. He remembers crying on the plane, “On the plane ride from Manila to Boston, I was non-stop (mimics tears running down his face). Because I was leaving Mommy and Almira who was only eight months old then, right? We were just starting to bond and that kind of thing. It was really like being, you know, torn apart.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764183772014-3Z40J33RUF3UUZI1U70O/12.76_AtilanoNewYork001.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764256589414-EVCKIC90HIRQ2LZ8RDAZ/07.17.77_DuxburyBeach_001.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764256711793-ICFC1KK4WWJWEQ1ZU1X2/1976_9.18_On+top+of+Twin+Towers001.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764256709961-LLEOTV46YP3VRYG3DK1Z/1976_9.18_On+top+of+Twin+Towers002.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764257189374-IZCS2XLTCZIUVGTNS8VO/1975_Makati007.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764257187673-886IJB0BZGJMI01XLSF5/1975_Makati032.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764257378732-6XDVEGB6KYP6XEN22FC2/1976_Makati005.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764257614664-JMJMSBG5PHODW6LJ4QGE/1977_AlmiraGraduation002.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/9888d94f-e6cc-4897-82e6-491177609f1a/AtilanoApartment002.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums - It started with a simple task: digitize photos from my parents’ magnetic photo albums: one with cracked brown padded vinyl which might have looked like leather in earlier days and the other a faded green canvas with the word “Photos” in flaking gold letters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764259214297-3OLTWXQJ4H1W1NVLROQ5/1975_BabyAlmira002.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764259278799-6DSFM63KDBOT6Y08AZLW/1974_AlmiraNewborn004.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1764259416635-YV81DFPH93LR9LTDX10A/1975_AlmiraStanding003.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - A Tale of Two Albums https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/how-we-got-here monthly 0.5 2025-11-29 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/blog-post-title-two-8gwwl monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/blog-post-title-three-j2nhw monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/a95b0853-ca5c-4dc8-9a7c-64b4abf2d93c/president-lyndon-b-johnson-signing-of-the-immigration-act-of-1965-02-restoration1-dbc75c.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - Opening the Door: The Hart-Celler Act - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/2025/11/23/zdu669wxxmfmlyimt5y3sb0pngtjwo monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/dbdb91db-b24a-4d33-8a45-da111f173690/McKinley_%28cropped%29.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - Health Care & Filipino Migration - “The mission of the United States is benevolent assimilation.” - President William McKinley BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION. How did the U.S. wish to assimilate a people that they considered little brown brothers? William H. Taft, the first American Governor-General of the Philippines told President McKinley that "our little brown brothers" would need "fifty or one hundred years" of close supervision "to develop anything resembling Anglo-Saxon political principles and skills." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/cf3dc326-ef2d-4c79-9e7a-48c5a8c709e9/Empire+of+Care.webp Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - Health Care & Filipino Migration Catherine Ceniza Choy explores how the U.S. remade the educational system in the Philippines (particularly medical education) in her study, Empire of Care. In her book, she quotes less-than-benevolent attitudes toward Filipinos: “We are practically cleaning up these Islands, left foul and insanitary and diseased by generations of hygienically ignorant peoples. We are stamping out the conflagration of disease started long before the American occupation…” – Victor Heiser, director of health in the Philippine islands If Filipinos were going to now be U.S. nationals, Filipino bodies had to be remade into acceptable American notions of strong and healthy. They created an Americanized training hospital system in the Philippines that followed U.S. professional nursing trends. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/walking-through-the-door monthly 0.5 2025-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1763926159753-T9MMIB03VPU9FDUTW11O/AtilanoleavingforUS003+copy.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - Walking through the Door - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/family-reunification monthly 0.5 2025-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/47230d92-ebd6-4811-ae04-4c700e8110f0/1980_Manila+Airport002.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - Family Reunification - My parents made it here because the U.S. invested in health professions education for the good of their citizens. My five-year-old sister was not allowed to join them. That’s her, in the picture. July 16, 1980. She is saying goodbye to Mommy. She doesn’t know when she’ll see her again. Mommy is pregnant with me, and will give birth to me in October. By the time my sister is reunited with our parents, she has two little sisters who were born in chilly North America. She is left with my mom’s family in the Philippines. There they are, surrounding her, my grandmother (Lola), directly behind her, Tita Lina to the side. They care for her as they do their own children. Still - “it’s a lot of, I guess, choices were made so we could be together.” - my mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/9bf19dae-b7c7-491e-95fe-3c0e79ce48ae/1982_TitaFelyAptNY%2C+1.10002.jpg Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - Family Reunification - Reunification I’m the baby in the picture. We’re in my aunt’s Stuy Town apartment in NYC, My older sister has just arrived. My younger sister, the baby, has been left in Canada because she was too young to travel. We will be reunited soon. My father will work as a doctor to this day. We will grow up a nuclear family with ups and downs and everyday traumas. Lots of laughter. Support to pursue our creative and academic dreams. We’re bringing a healthy next generation. Our story is happier than most. https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/2025/11/23/sqitt37bobz2qw38y28lq12km6jpye-KT7km monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/52802107-daae-4640-98dc-07b97736f1fa/Screenshot+2025-11-23+at+12.13.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Prospective Immigrants, Please Note - Whom Shall We Welcome? https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/2025/11/23/resources monthly 0.5 2025-11-27 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/category/oral+history monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/category/Memoir monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/category/Laws monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/category/Immigration monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/category/History monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/prospective-immigrants-please-note/category/poetry monthly 0.5 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/podcast daily 0.75 2023-11-28 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/about daily 1.0 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/954c440d-58dd-44fa-bfc0-1cc6341096c8/IMG_2164.jpeg https://www.amandafayelacson.com/communities daily 0.75 2023-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1bf13b1c-ba10-4682-81d0-755db7aa9d78/Still+Birth.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/08dd44e0-d531-48a0-b173-0d8779290f41/Picture1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/c07cd9fc-73d3-47cb-ac49-44d4c5903ff1/TLAN_logo_horiz.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/db5bf118-dfee-44b6-837a-492fbe6ed4bc/big-logo.jpg https://www.amandafayelacson.com/workshops daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/about-the-family-archive daily 0.75 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/b4095a2f-a67a-45fd-aa80-f21e1431da1e/AL_029.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1763926093484-X51769N0JJGCO1BXB3DG/AtilanoleavingforUS002.jpg https://www.amandafayelacson.com/photography daily 0.75 2025-07-16 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/photography/lifestyle monthly 0.5 2023-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/447d5ddd-f53e-4dd3-b638-3dce5750f657/06.04.19+Megan%2C+LES-1.jpg Photography - Lifestyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/2416df8f-62ba-4079-bf51-6258489abb66/06.04.19+Megan%2C+LES-2.jpeg Photography - Lifestyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/66ae2608-91ca-4b91-9e7c-3a95c9c11377/06.09.19+High+Tea+at+Fairmont-125.jpg Photography - Lifestyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/479bc763-cb22-4052-bcec-c8cfece6f9d7/06.09.19+High+Tea+at+Fairmont-47.jpg Photography - Lifestyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/479a2037-e8d0-417f-9806-24b7a76bd3ad/06.12.19+Athabasca+Glacier-81.jpg Photography - Lifestyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/bf86e2ac-dc29-47ca-bf91-ab224c5ffa59/06.12.19+Athabasca+Glacier-284.jpg Photography - Lifestyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/c9fa9611-79ce-4bb7-9e4e-7a267d71eebe/Mary+Abrams+Photoshoot-98.jpg Photography - Lifestyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/80dbab20-bd84-4e90-b966-4bd1037bfc99/Mary+Abrams+Photoshoot-128.jpg Photography - Lifestyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/8e3fdc83-f740-42ab-a146-42c79cf5900a/Mary+Abrams+Photoshoot-609.jpg Photography - Lifestyle https://www.amandafayelacson.com/photography/rehearsal-and-behind-the-scenes monthly 0.5 2023-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/4e75aa84-d902-49f4-94a9-738323362a2c/_DSC1665.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/28477981-c907-4fac-9765-6a19ecb8a7c9/_DSC1896.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/af522ca4-5387-41e5-828f-87be2cb96c0d/_DSC2401.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/3d1dd79c-df74-4b47-a6fb-aa85233c949b/_DSC3128.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/fae7c36b-51ea-4732-a325-5b543d7ba03c/_DSC4541.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/584f8051-8ebb-41c8-9b35-30a9945fa6f9/_DSC4570.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/b8d2880b-e862-4419-afc0-6e9b4cf5d7d2/_DSC4590.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/46f81f99-beea-451d-99c0-a7992d6cd406/REH+Scene+1-12.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/458b754b-d343-4704-a13a-d69d7e4a151b/REH+Scene+1-60.jpg Photography - Rehearsal and Behind the Scenes https://www.amandafayelacson.com/photography/events monthly 0.5 2023-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/a3d84f52-2eb8-4b1e-b5d7-b665c4d87ca8/_DSC7583.jpg Photography - Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/eedc501d-ee0f-4fd1-afc9-d1dec53e27c4/_DSC7897.jpg Photography - Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/b7caee6f-2293-4774-935f-4274d4b1f97b/_DSC8070.jpg Photography - Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/605f4191-6989-4011-b7ab-abfd86326cc1/_DSC8227.jpg Photography - Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/09974f85-6bbc-4e73-a4d4-dc5a3ba6d8a2/_DSC8366.jpg Photography - Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/e9026a94-f157-4eb3-b4d7-eeede6a194b5/Post-Show-2.jpg Photography - Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/2730b017-1121-4fb9-8fb2-a2742606b7fa/Post-Show-11.jpg Photography - Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/d6b355f6-485d-4ec5-9b7e-81ffa38def22/_DSC0806.jpg Photography - Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/dd063c3e-dfc6-47de-8165-0ca6bf9d30ff/_DSC0850.jpg Photography - Events https://www.amandafayelacson.com/photography/theater-and-performance monthly 0.5 2023-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/04134780-79be-418c-b8b8-fb664534877e/_DSC3416.jpg Photography - Theater and Performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/e5cc76cf-2584-4803-b019-62c9f5876437/_DSC4112.jpg Photography - Theater and Performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/27fd77c3-5ee1-4962-9fdf-f35e527019bb/_DSC4249.jpg Photography - Theater and Performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/2907c58c-3805-4c35-9e4d-7e0c59911049/_DSC5665.jpg Photography - Theater and Performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/9d453aea-d7aa-416a-96bd-e7de8a254a3c/03.05.20+Taina+Asili+y+la+Bande+Rebelde_Ginny%27s-127.jpeg Photography - Theater and Performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/e9792d36-1b64-4416-aae1-8b8aa98ab586/Matrilineal_HEREarts-10.jpg Photography - Theater and Performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/7ad5ce2e-c49f-4848-95ea-0235c04be910/Matrilineal_HEREarts-33.jpg Photography - Theater and Performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/1b870cec-7114-4284-bd2c-3f9b20d7d5b0/Tech+Rehearsal-25.jpg Photography - Theater and Performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/8d4ee999-db4a-47f8-920c-6aa906a68995/Tech+Rehearsal-48.jpg Photography - Theater and Performance https://www.amandafayelacson.com/photography2 daily 0.75 2023-11-25 https://www.amandafayelacson.com/photography2/brmpatel monthly 0.5 2023-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/fe6d9f26-259c-433f-9d3c-5da1d3362dd3/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8060.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/dcb243a7-239c-47b2-afd1-c7aa3849756c/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8062.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/0f921ab0-71ce-4cef-9023-0d7ccb506d27/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8091.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/4549f2a4-f235-4903-9f40-9e8ff73b9d62/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8127.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/8a9f6383-5dad-40c1-af99-4d5649dcc340/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8179.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/d49ac737-e917-4255-a0f7-2e8dff66d234/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8261.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/17ffdb60-1c1d-400b-beb3-7cf1450707c6/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8297.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/622d3d02-ffd1-4d89-9305-0f86b4fe3948/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-8326.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/11c0f277-62cf-4820-a1a5-410caecb3e1a/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive--3.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/5f11b490-1a22-48c0-9f04-75266b4e041e/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive--4.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Barkha Patel https://www.amandafayelacson.com/photography2/brmsrinivasan monthly 0.5 2023-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/72f202cc-2112-4b22-9af0-036331516652/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7501.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/77baeb6c-88e2-47da-b278-abe11dc6a422/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7508.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/7ccc69c6-6a84-452e-a84c-e5811e277bd0/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7545.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/43f715ab-06f7-494c-aa0b-18db4f108f63/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7621.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/0101acae-226a-4df4-b9c5-965b6ae2c857/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7634.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Malini Srinivasan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6371714bbbd7bc48fcbb7fdd/11ef8c5c-e6fb-44c0-a01e-7204c1212574/Brooklyn+Raga+Massive-7970.jpg Photography2 - Brooklyn Raga Massive: Malini Srinivasan