{"id":1770,"date":"2024-05-29T16:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T23:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:45:04","slug":"asian-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/2024\/05\/29\/asian-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Colourful<\/div>\n

May is Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and as it draws to a close, we share this beautiful piece by CHASI artist-in-residence Sharon Strauss. Writing about this piece, Sharon says:<\/p>\n

“Batok is an indigenous Filipino style of tattooing that predates the colonization of the Philippines. It is traditionally done by hand-tapping the ink into the skin, often earned after a significant milestone. The patterns have distinct meanings, though the coverage, complexity, and social significance varied among peoples.<\/p>\n

I am half Pinoy, though you wouldn’t know it from a glance. My mother is unmistakably Filipino, Visayan specifically, with beautiful dark hair and eyes. I stand a head taller than her at 5’5″, with my father’s complexion and unplaceable features. I grew up making lumpia, sitting at the table with my titas, experienced the classics as the eldest daughter of an Asian parent. But I never learned Tagolog, or my mother’s native tongue: Cebuano. Always had to clarify, that yes, this is my mom. I know that in many ways, this made my life easier than my sisters’, who bear our heritage more plainly to see.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s why, though I’ve always wanted to get batok done, I’ve never felt worthy of it.<\/p>\n

I suppose this piece is my idealized image of beauty, intentionally formed out of my yearning and defiance. Venus in her shell, not pale and pure as a pearl, but dark and lovely, marked by her culture and wearing it proudly.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May is Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and as it draws to a close, we share this beautiful piece by CHASI artist-in-residence Sharon Strauss. Writing about this piece, Sharon says: “Batok is an indigenous Filipino style of tattooing that predates the colonization of the Philippines. It is traditionally done by hand-tapping the ink into … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":1772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[274,272,273,205],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observances","tag-asian-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month","tag-asian-heritage-month","tag-pacific-islander-heritage-month","tag-sharon-strauss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/chasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}