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Reposted with permission from my sis @brwngrlz @gretchenbc_ Happy Philippine Independence Day❤️‍🔥 Remember our struggles are beyond finding our identities, remember our struggles are braided in the ways we’ve been oppressed and also oppressors at the hands of colonialism, remember our freedom is in the confrontation of our true selves and our place in this world, and how we can do good for the liberation of people through knowledge and action. To stay in the know with what’s going on with the Philippines, follow: @liyang_network, @sabokahan, @malayamovement, ilps_official, @tambisansasining @saka__ph, @bahaghari_phils, @amihan.peasant_women, @piston_ph, @pandaysining @anakbayanphils Grateful for the people who fought for my freedom to create, freedom to be in community with so many different people, and freedom to see what’s possible for the world. Videos by @fern_doe Edits by G Shot at @popstireshop

Had to share this feature on my sister @kingmarie 🖤 She's been truly rocking with us since day 1 - from coming out to play our first party in NY back in 2017 with @luvl1sa & TNY FOX, to coming out to the Bay to play our @rubyibarra afterparty at @111minnagallery, to being on our very first print magazine cover & livestreaming our launch party during the pandemic w/ @likebuttab @k.alcordo lizaamichelle @shotbyguerrilla & Blue Arios. Congrats boo we love to see it 🤩 #repost @serato Long Live King Marie. Community building, butter blends, and creating safe spaces for women to dance. @kingmarie stays putting on for her culture and representing what she wished she could have seen growing up. In every project she pursues, she’s bringing more Women to the Front. Read more at the link in bio 👑

Have you copped your THOTSILOG tickets yet for this SAT 8/12?? We've got the homie chef Alex Suniga serving an elevated Filipino-inspired brunch at the brand new new @nectarsocialclub in DT Oakland!! He's been killing it in Santa Cruz with his weekly PARÉ pop-up at @afterhourssc and a recent cover of @ediblemontereybay and we're super excited to partner with him on his very first Oakland event! With specialty Hella Pinay cocktails + yr DJs Guerrilla Pump, deep th0ts and Hella L giving you 4 hours of tropical booty bounce 💦 tickets are going fast so don't sleep! $10 COVER, get yr tix via link in bio and see you thereee 🌴 SAT 8/12/23 12-4PM Nectar Social Club 408 15th St, Oakland CA 📽: @allwayskahlil

Catchy, raw and unapologetically sexy, Toronto-based, all-women kulintang ensemble Pantayo is back with a brand new video for “One More Latch (Give It To ‘Ya)” premiering exclusively today on Hella Pinay 🖤 The opening track off their sophomore LP, Ang Pagdaloy, released last month on Telephone Explosion Records, “One More Latch” is a sultry, gong-infused meditation on desire and desirability from a queer, diasporic Filipinx perspective. Speaking to the single, Toronto-based filmmaker and Pantayo collaborator Tricia Hagoriles says; "With the visceral use of only gongs, drums and vocals, ‘One More Latch (Give it to Ya)’ feels like an homage to women musicians in the 90s that wrote or performed songs about their own sexual desires (ie. TLC’s ‘Creep’ and Janet Jackson’s ‘That’s the Way Love Goes’). Which, for an all-women Filipina band near-explicitly expressing sexual desire, is a point of subversion in itself.” Read more about their new project and peep the video on hellapinay.com #linkinbio

TONIGHT!! Tune in to Hella Pinay Radyo at 6:30PM PDT on lowergrandradio.com for a special all music episode 🖤 we'll be dropping open-format bangers from ghetto house (RIP @realdjdeeon) to tropical vampire techno from artists like @like.animals.ph and @_t33g33 🥵 As always 🌴 Keeping it Hella Real, Hella Raw & #HellaPinay 😎 ⁣⁣⁣XOXO 💋 Steph & Kuya G ⁣⁣⁣✊🏾⁣⁣⁣✨

☆ TMO 6/15/23 ☆ Join us in the @lowergrandradio studio for a special 3-hour Hella Pinay Radio Pride episode and party! We'll have your co-hosts Steph G & Guerrilla Pump spinning the pekpek popping jams, sharing your real-life coming out stories, and be blessed with a live performance by Marxoxo @bbymarxoxo!!! Mar is a trans filipina artist, model, and actress from Vallejo, CA who releases ~air-pop~ music with hyperstylized visuals that nestle between Tinashe, Yeule, Charli XCX, and everything pink! ♡ If you'd like to share your story in person, have us read it on-air, or just pull up, hit the link(s) in bio. We can't wait to see y'all and ki IRL!!!!!! ☆ THURS 6/15/23 4:30-7:30PM PST – IRL at Lower Grand Radio, 4124 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611 + streaming at hellapinay.com/radio ☆ Presented by @apicc_sf as part of USAAF 2023: Reimagining Horizons 🌈

TONIGHT!! Hella Pinay Radio has not 1 but 2 special guests! Harriet Brown @yourveryownhb is gonna be popping by the studio to drop a 🤫 surprise 🤫 guest mix after @shotbyguerrilla!! We've been huge internet fans for the longest and are super excited to link irl, you won't wanna miss this! Streaming live THURS 01.19.23 from 7PM-9:30PM PST / 11AM-1:30PM PHT on lowergrandradio com @lowergrandradio 📡 With your hosts Steph G & Guerrilla Pump + yr 2023 astrology tea by @krstopher_oak @oakastrologyschool 💫💫💫💫💫 Harriet Brown is a Filipino-American artist, producer, songwriter and DJ based in Los Angeles, originally from the Bay Area, CA. His experimental electronic productions are heavily based in the songwriting traditions of R&B and Soul, from which he branches out to many different worlds of sound. He originally moved to LA in 2014 to release his first EP New Era on the small tape label Feel So Real, before going on to release two full-length albums – Contact (2017) and Mall of Fortune (2019) – through independent label Innovative Leisure. He has also been a resident host on @nts_radio since 2016, with his own monthly show, “All About Our Love”. Now, he’s starting anew with a fresh sound and vision as he independently releases his EP, Future Twang – a swift collection of five songs meant to embody the sound of a Sci-fi Vampire Western, fully written, produced and mixed by Harriet himself at Booted Man Studio in South Los Angeles.

🌴WEEKEND MOOD🌴 #bts of @thirdworldbb ‘s fashion editorial shoot for Hella Pinay 03: The Culture Issue✨mark yr calendars cuz preorders open on 5/2/22✨

Yeee check out @sfduchess ‘ gorgeous new video for “Puerto Princesa” 🌴 @amyra.soriano wrote about the track in our interview in Issue 01, in which Ouida “daydreams about an ideal post-pandemic life on the islands” - get into ittttt link in @sfduchess bio🌴 Executive Producer / Creative Director: Ouida Director: @duttonfilms Lead Wardrobe: @mey.saechao Associate Producer: @alexxshep Assistant Director: @alanxfisher General PA: @toneontop Props: @brie_parker Makeup Artist: @briananicolegamo Makeup Artist: @rubzartistry Hair Stylist: @francescalcual Hair Stylist: @rannabach Choreographer, Motorcyclist: @devaughn.marcelle BTS Photographer: @eliashallowell Talent: @badaby @trainer_trainor @ayaaki.osawa @cecemalindi @d_akinyemi @domtsunami @_socrateslives @jadapambid @12itual @pocky_jg @keanihin @kristianatorregosa @mike_arcega @nataliapambid @pao_silog Presley Asuncion @sopeepop @sophia.marie Vendors: @lalisimone @likhapilipino @saintjosephsartsfoundation @tnt_traysikel @vintagallery @zacchosf

We’re super excited to share Brooklyn-based rapper, poet and musician KAYA’s brand new video for “Harana x Half Free”! Actually two songs b2b: the first, “Harana,” is a flip on the rural serenade tradition in which young men may formally meet single lady visitors. “I don’t believe in raising daughters to revolve partnership or intimacy around being approached first," KAYA says. "I think it is important for young Filipinas and young people period to speak honestly about the things they experience in romance and intimacy.” The second track, “Half Free,” refers to a term she began using “to talk about Filipinos in NYC and America at large. No matter where our people stand, know that this nation we sometimes claim as our own soil, and find security through sacrifice in, never wanted us free.” Check the full visual on hellapinay.com now 🌸 link in bio ⁠ -- Director: KAYA @kayalovesu Talent: KAYA @kayalovesu, Kuya @badwisdomfromtito Production: Mary Sue @sweetmarysue (Harana), Jcomm @jcomm_ (Half Free) DoP/Colorist/Editor: Chauncey Velasco @civilianworks Wardrobe: Brianna Lim @bybriannalim Hair: @styledbyemily_

We’re super excited to share Brooklyn-based rapper, poet and musician KAYA’s brand new video for “Harana x Half Free”! Actually two songs b2b: the first, “Harana,” is a flip on the rural serenade tradition in which young men may formally meet single lady visitors. “I don’t believe in raising daughters to revolve partnership or intimacy around being approached first," KAYA says. "I think it is important for young Filipinas and young people period to speak honestly about the things they experience in romance and intimacy.” The second track, “Half Free,” refers to a term she began using “to talk about Filipinos in NYC and America at large. No matter where our people stand, know that this nation we sometimes claim as our own soil, and find security through sacrifice in, never wanted us free.” Check the full visual on hellapinay.com now 🌸 link in bio ⁠ -- Director: KAYA @kayalovesu Talent: KAYA @kayalovesu, Kuya @badwisdomfromtito Production: Mary Sue @sweetmarysue (Harana), Jcomm @jcomm_ (Half Free) DoP/Colorist/Editor: Chauncey Velasco @civilianworks Wardrobe: Brianna Lim @bybriannalim Hair: @styledbyemily_

Go behind the scenes with Ruby Ibarra and Hella Pinay in her hometown of San Lorenzo, CA for the cover of our Fall/Winter 21 Issue, 'Interconnected.' Inspired by the idea of origins, we visited places that hold significance to Ruby growing up and throughout her early career. 🌴 Pre-order Issue 02 until 11/22 with an exclusive Indiegogo-only cover via the link in bio 🌴 Video: Rocky Garcia Photographer: B. Milky Creative Direction & Styling: Stephanie Gancayco Beauty: Amanda Arroyo Song: "Hey Bulldog" by Fanny

One of our faves Kelady just dropped the video for her latest single "Kulog" ("Thunder" in Tagalog)⚡️⛈⚡️ Weaving through humid tunnels of bamboo, the LA-based artist's new MV explores the crippling experience of losing one’s self through visuals referencing the Manananggal of Philippine folklore who, according to legend, uses a long flexible tongue to prey on unborn children in the wombs of sleeping pregnant women along with the hearts and livers of men she seduces while in her human form. "One of my favorite moments is when we recorded a bamboo stick slapping and scraping against a concrete floor to mimic the sounds of Tinikling dance – this gave the track an earthy feeling and helped open up more ideas,” Kelady shares. ⁠⁠ Check the full visual on hellapinay.com now 🖤 and see more of her in Hella Pinay Issue 02 soooon 😎 link in bio