Adding color to the Great White Way: Actress Alysia Beltran talks diversity onstage

Despite growing up without many multicultural roles to look up to, Beltran still believes theater is an effective medium to push for diversity.
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Despite growing up without many multicultural roles to look up to, Beltran still believes theater is an effective medium to push for diversity.
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This identity crisis that the majority of Filipino youth are accustomed to, coupled with the culture’s ingrained normalcy of complexion-shaming is a convoluted conundrum for future generations: How can we teach young men and women to love and accept themselves when we are caught up in our own ignorance?
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Growing up, I was ashamed of being Filipino. In fact, some of my most vivid childhood memories are from when the shame was most stinging.
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As our Lyft driver pulled up a street away from 8th and Folsom, a man in assless underwear sprinted towards what we could only assume was his kinky oasis.
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The minute you walk into a party thrown by a Filipino family, you’ll see three things: a smorgasbord of food, a humongous pile of shoes in the foyer and a Magic Mic. The first Magic Mic I knew wasn’t Channing Tatum. For most people, the Magic Mic is an innocent,
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Diaspora By Leon Barros Salterns harvest the ocean Don’t you know all Filipinos pray facing Manila is barren Nothing grows there anymore It is tradition to salt cities asphyxiate soil make sure you can never come back I smell brimstone from 3,000 miles away The sun rises in the west
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One of the biggest holidays of the summer, and possibly America’s most iconic holiday overall, is Independence Day. But July 4 isn’t the only day of independence celebrated during the summer. Friday is Philippine Independence Day, or Araw ng Kasarinlan. Araw ng Kasarinlan commemorates the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain, after 300
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