Michael Janairo

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  • Spoken Word Artist: Ruby Ibarra

     

    Check out this great spoken word piece by a young artist born in the Philippines and lives in California.

    Ruby Ibarra’s website is here: https://www.rubyibarra.com/

     

     

  • ‘Positively No Filipinos Allowed’

    bestdoorI came across this image while looking up something else. I couldn’t find the name of a photographer for it, though some say it is likely a hotel in Stockton, California, in and around 1930. Though I had read about such signs, especially in the great Carlos Bulosan book America is in the Heart, I hadn’t seen one before.

    There is something visceral and powerful about this image. How dark it is. How well-used the door, floor, and walls look. It doesn’t appear to be a place of wealth; rather, it is a place on the margins of American economic security and who gets counted as belonging.