Home is in the Body: 2Slgbtqia+ PilipinX Femme, N. Of 49th Parallel

Image description: filipinx person wearing yellow toque, yellow rugby shirt with blue sleeves and white collar smiling into camera, right hand under chin, leaning elbow on their right knee. Pixelated pink and purple background of the front of Shelf Life Books. White Block text: Home is in the. Body: 2SLGBTQIA+ Filipinx Femme, North of the 49th Parallel... Yellow block text: Virtual Event with Shelf Life Books White block text: Wednesday, February 17 7 PM to 8:30 PM MST Online *** KIMMORTAL // PRONOUNS: THEY/SHE // WHERE FAMILY ORIGINATES FROM IN PHILIPPINES: NEGROS OCCIDENTAL AND PANGASINAN // BORN/BASED: VANCOUVER // LANGUAGES SPOKEN: ENGLISH AND A BIT OF TAGALOG // PARENTS’ LANGUAGES: ILOCANO AND VISAYAN AND TAGALOGKimmortal is a queer Filipinx interdisciplinary artist based on unceded Coast Salish territory. Their work is inspired by their community of artists and activists. #filipinx #queerfilipinx #qtBIMPOC #qtBIPOC #decolonizing #sikolohiyangpilipino #queeringspace #sapatnaako #kapwacalling #homeisinthebody

Image description: black marker on white background of a Filipinx person @lukayo.estrella wearing a hat with lid twisted to the right, over thick strip of hair coming down from their cap, from their side to their chin. Wearing an off-shoulder scoop neck with lukayo over baybayin text. Pixelated pink and purple background of the front of Shelf Life Books. White Block text: Home is in the. Body: 2SLGBTQIA+ Filipinx Femme, North of the 49th Parallel... Yellow block text: Virtual Event with Shelf Life Books White block text: Wednesday, February 17 7 PM to 8:30 PM MST Online * * * The following bio is from @homeisinthebody LUKAYO DIWATA BITWOON// PRONOUNS: SIYA/THEY/THEM/THEIR // PAKILUMANG/ TIBO/ASOG/NON-BINARY // WHERE FAMILY ORIGINATES FROM IN PHILIPPINES: ALBAY, BIKOL // BORN/BASED: QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES / ONTARIO, CANADA // LANGUAGES SPOKEN: ENGLISH, FRENCH, SOME BIKOL, SOME TAGALOG // PARENTS’ LANGUAGES: BIKOL, TAGALOG, ENGLISH A wordslinger and healer from the Bikol diaspora, Lukayo is based on the territories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Wyandot, and currently resides and travels between the cities of Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. When not daydreaming of starting a sanctuary for land defenders and nonbinary priest(esse)s, Lukayo is probably hanging out at their intentional community home made up of activist gamer witches in Ottawa or visiting their cat Anino in Toronto. Check out Lukayo.com to know more. #filipinx #queerfilipinx #qtBIMPOC #qtBIPOC #decolonizing #sikolohiyangpilipino #queeringspace #sapatnaako #kapwacalling

[image description: medium shot of Filipinx person staring into camera, wearing blue silk blouse with butterflies and ladybugs. Hair is pulled back. Text on pink & purple background reads: featured contributor Felikinesis. Home is in the Body: 2SLGBTQIA+ Filipinx Femme, North of the 49th Parallel. Wednesday, Feb 17 7-830 pm MST, Online, Shelf Life Books] One of our featured speakers and panelist for the virtual event @shelflifebooks on February 17 is @felikinesis Felikines...is is a queer first generation pinx and settler on Kawenake unceded territory and sincerely wishes for these lands to be rightfully governed by Indigenous communities. She is a graduate of Concordia University in Fine Arts with a minor in Psychology and is currently completing a diploma in Finance & Accounting. She will be continuing her studies in Accounting, making her Accountant mother very proud. She is also a zinester, illustrator, print-maker, community artist, skill-sharer, and as of lately, a bookkeeper within the arts community. She enjoyspoking calculators,doodling dreams, and meanders towards her purpose. #filipinx #queerfilipinx #qtBIMPOC #qtBIPOC #pinx #decolonizing #sikolohiyangpilipino #queeringspace #sapatnaako #kapwacalling

Image description: Pixelated pink and purple background of the front of Shelf Life Books. White Block text: Home is in the. Body: 2SLGBTQIA+ Filipinx Femme, North of the 49th Parallel Yellow block text: Virtual Event with Shelf Life Books... White block text: Wednesday, February 17 7 PM to 8:30 PM MST Online * * * This book features portraits and interviews with over 40 radical, brilliant FilipinX Femme, mostly from Canada, some from the States, who identify as Trans Pinay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Pansexual, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Aromantic, Gender Non-conforming and some as Allies of 2SLGBTQIA+. It also includes beautiful, moving articles, poetry, prose, & visual art from submissions addressing Community, Identity, Self, and Love. Join ANAK Publishing Worker Cooperative Ltd. for an evening with readings from contributors Kimmortal, Felikinesis, and Lukayo Diwata Bitoon. There will also be a panel discussion followed by Q&A. Link in Bio This book was made possible through funding by Calgary Arts Development and the City of Calgary. #filipinx #queerfilipinx #qtBIMPOC #qtBIPOC #decolonizing #sikolohiyangpilipino #queeringspace #sapatnaako #kapwacalling

Posted @withrepost @thenib Read @escobarcomics on reclaiming the term Bakla and decolonizing Queerness in the Philippines at thenib.com ..... .... . part of decolonizing, among recognizing one’s context to land, how the land one currently resides on was colonized and how the first people were affected is also recognizing the roots of language. See more

Thank you so much for your patience!! We just received our last submissions & Final reviews of transcripts. We will be shipping by next week, latest! Happy November and we hope to see you at the next books launches, in your cities.

Cover Art by Kimmortal