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Pia Cortez is a poet and a writer from Pampanga, Philippines, currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more →

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Hi, my name’s Pia (a pisces in her element in this photo) & I’m a queer, Filipinx book & fashion blogger in #SF & October is literally a convergence of all my fave things ✨ I’m heading out to @undiscoveredsf featuring #PinayPower this weekend (hella excited to watch @rubyibarra, @rockyrivera, @djkingmarie & more) & also celebrating all things #APAture2018 (visual + book arts!) with @kearnystreetworkshop ✨ Link in bio for all the goodness, see you there? #fahm #tbt

Midweek pause: learning so much from my new read JOYFUL (@aestheticsofjoy) about energy & color 🌈 As someone who sticks to neutrals (black & white for the most part, denim when I’m feelin wild), I’m starting to rethink color choices in terms of clothing, decor, etc. Like how joyful I felt with the colors of Bali, Mexico City, Old San Juan & Philippines...only to come back to the muted tones of my neighborhood in the Bay. @ingridfetell wrote: “Color is energy made visible." Are y’all feeling the same way too? // captured by @maevestier ✨ . #teamabercrombie #abercrombieagent #abercrombiestyle

Happy book birthday to GIRLS WRITE NOW, two decades of true stories from young female voices 🔥 This compilation is something I wish I had when I was growing up, because when you’re in those awkward tween/teen phases, the world can seem a lot, these are the stories that can make the difference. So grateful for the honesty, bravery & vulnerability of young immigrants, black & brown girls, grand/daughters, bisexual girls, young Muslim women & many others in this collection. Y’all are my s/heroes 💖 Thank you @tin_house for my copy & @girlswritenow for the work that you do! // captured by @lainyhu

So happy to announce that I’ve partnered up with @booksparks for #FRC2018, our fall reading challenge 🍂 Summer’s over but I love how with books, traveling never stops. Freal, #ReadingTakesYouPlaces. Check out my link in bio for the full details, book lineup, my fellow @booksparks ambassadors & your next fall read 🍂

14 years ago, I moved to the Bay Area from a small town in the Philippines which gave me the biggest heartbreak of all (worse than immigration, homesickness, feelings of displacement): a queer long distance relationship 💔 Just imagine a lil baby dyke Pinay walking around Mission St. looking for phone cards because Skype, Messenger weren’t even in existence yet. As always, I sought refuge in books, made friends at the library. This week for #queerFAHM, @aangeles4 & I will be focusing on our stories as queer Filipinx-American, so share yr story with us if you have one 🇵🇭 A huge shoutout to @longdistanceradio, a podcast on the stories of Filipinos in the diaspora which will be launching tomorrow! #longdistancestories #fahm

Throwback to last Saturday at #SeaRanch, a trip to be present, slow down with chosen fam 🍂

So in love with this collection of short stories by #ChayaBhuvaneswar that I never wanted it to end. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS features 17 stories of queer love, grief, heart-wrenching accounts of marriage (& affairs), abandonment, wild-eyed otherness & my fave, the taxi-driver-turned-poet 🍂 I’ll be reviewing this book for @lambdaliterary (thank you @dzancbooks), so be on the lookout for that. In the meantime, check out the #booklook in my stories!

When ppl ask me what my coming out story is: I came out of my mom’s vag? 🤷🏽‍♀️ Freal though, lucky enough to never have had to explain myself / my preference because friends & fam just knew. Queer & extra af, everyday. Happy #NationalComingOutDay to my LGBTQI fam 🌈 & if you ain’t, I’m here for you ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 captured by @lainyhu

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