This is an EXCLUSIVE discussion from the Filipina Soul Sisterhood Circle, which we’re posting because it is so moving and important. Our sisterhood meets online every Thursday, and through out the month we are doing activities, journaling, having discussions, meeting with Filipina leaders & experts. Join here! Dr.RobynMagalit Rodriguez is leading expert oncontemporary Filipino issues, anda professor and chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is also the founding faculty director of theBulosan Center for Filipinx Studies, the first of its kind in the University of California system focused on the Filipinx experience in the United States,and she has written extensively on the Filipino experience (ashort listcan be found here) * She’s one of only a handful of Pinays who research, write and teach on Filipino topics that have reached the highest ranking in the professoriate, full professor, at a major research university in the country.She is venera...