PinoyBuilt — Stories of Filipino America

Seattle, Washington • October 2026. Carlos Bulosan and the Manong Generation: What the Record Shows. carlos bulosan, america is in the heart, manong generation, filipino american history month, FAHM 2026, 10/3, ILWU Local 37, Filipino labor history, Bulosan Center UC Davis, Seattle International District, Filipino American literature. FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH • OCTOBER 2026 Carlos Bulosan and the Manong Generation: What the Record Shows Migrant laborer, union editor, and author of America Is in the Heart , Carlos Bulosan wrote the manong generation into the American record. Here is what archives and reference sources confirm about his life, his work, and where to find him. PinoyBuilt illustration for Filipino American History Month 2026. This is an artwork, not an archival photograph. October is Filipino American History Month, and any honest accounting of it has to make room for the men who worked Americ...

USA • October 2026. Critics Loved Forgotten Island. Now It Needs Filipino Americans in the Seats. forgotten island box office, forgotten island opening weekend, dreamworks filipino mythology movie, januel mercado, h.e.r. vallejo, liza soberano, lea salonga manananggal, filipino american history month, fahm 2026, support filipino film, 10/1. Forgotten Island • October 2026 Critics Loved Forgotten Island. Now It Needs Filipino Americans in the Seats. A Fil-Am director from Stockton made a studio film out of the stories our lolas told us. Audiences gave it an A. Then it opened fifth. This weekend is when we decide what Hollywood learns from it. PinoyBuilt illustration: an empty seat, a capiz-window screen, and one ticket waiting to be used. Not a still from the film. I was supposed to see Forgotten Island on Tuesday with my bunso, Chesca. That was the plan. Then the plan met a better offer: on Tuesday she was on a flight to Burbank, and on Wedn...

USA • October 2026. Who Built Filipino American History Month? The Archivists, the Galleon, and the Fight to Be Taught. filipino american history month, fahm, fanhs, fred cordova, dorothy cordova, morro bay 1587, luzones indios, mel orpilla, vallejo, s.res. 298, h.res. 780, white house fahm 2015, fil-am history, decolonization, 10/18. Community • FAHM 2026 Who Built Filipino American History Month? The Archivists, the Galleon, and the Fight to Be Taught October was not handed to us by Washington. Two Seattle archivists, a 1587 landing at Morro Bay, and three decades of volunteers built it, and Congress caught up later. PinoyBuilt illustration — a landing boat, an archive box, and the four centuries between them. Not an archival photograph. I arrived in Vallejo in June 1979, a Marikina kid by way of three Chicago winters, and at Springstowne Junior High I casually knew Phillip Orpilla. I did not know of his brother Mel until Facebook, sometim...