Reclaiming our Original Motherline of Love: Book Study on Hilary Giovale’s Becoming a Good Relative
Dr. Leny Mendoza Strobel will join us February 20, Morgan Curtis will join us March 6, Hilary Giovale will join us March 20 and Grandmother Ejna Fleury will join us April 3.
We will get insights from our speakers on the provocative themes of this ground-breaking book and learn from their own life stories. We will have the opportunity to question the speakers and discuss our reactions in small groups and to share with the full group.
“Reading Hilary’s book is a refreshing deep dive into this challenging and wondrous path of healing and repair for white-identified folks... What is beautiful about Hilary’s book is her transparency in writing about the challenges of being on this path — the embodied aspects of the emotional, psychological, spiritual, physical, and cognitive aspects of unlearning whiteness.”
— Leny Mendoza Strobel
advaya Kinship Course: Decolonisation as Re-membering, Kapwa Psychology, and Wells of Liminality
In this conversation with advaya, Leny Strobel discusses diasporic identity formation; reconfiguring belonging in the context of empire, as a process of re-membering; how she draws from the well of liminal space; and more.
Leny speaks to us with and from her personal history and experience of being a Kapampangan from Central Luzon in the Philippines, and (currently) a settler on Wappo, Pomo, and Coast Miwok lands.
This conversation was held ahead of advaya's upcoming course KINSHIP, of which Leny is the opening speaker.
500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipin@: Reappropriation, Resistance, and Decolonization
The year 2021 marked the five-hundredth anniversary of Christianity’s entry into the Philippines. With over 90% in the country identifying as Christian and with more than eight million Filipin@s all over the world, Filipin@s are a significant force reshaping global Christianity. This anniversary thus not only calls for celebration but also reflection and critique.
This two-day conference gathered theologians in the Philippines, United States, Australia, and around the world to examine Christianity in the Philippines through a postcolonial theological lens. The “post” here is not used in the temporal sense, as if colonialism has ended, but rather, suggests the desire to go beyond the colonial in all its contemporary manifestations.
The second panel, “Reappropriation, Resistance, and Decolonization,” grappled with the enduring presence of coloniality in Filipin@ religious practices as well as celebrate the ways Christianity as a gift has been critically and creatively reimagined.
Filipino American Psychology: Past, Present, and Future
Asian American Psychology Association's Division of Filipino Americans (DoFA) had their first annual conference on January 30, 2016. The theme of the conference was Filipino American Psychology: Past, Present, and Future.
Leny Strobel speaks on Sikolohiyang Pilipino.