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Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) @fylpro.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

#FYLPROAlumniNews: FYLPRO 2018 delegate @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social has been selected as a 2026 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow. The fellowship offers training on dissertation writing, mentorship, and $27,500 naeducation.org/awardee/tony...

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Honored to be a 2026 NAEd / Spencer Dissertation Fellow🙏🏽. Grateful for this support in this crucial time. I’m a sociologist who studies race, education, and policy from a critical Southeast Asian American lens. Read the dissertation award here: naeducation.org/awardee/tony...

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Presented for the first time at the Association for Asian American Studies on community engaged research with Filipino communities! Ain’t this funny, the side project became the main project? Legendary Ethnic Studies scholar and mentor Ate Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales served as our discussant 🙏🏽🇵🇭

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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 12/02/2026

🎤 🇵🇷 In this @hechingerreport.org op-ed, @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social (@elpahighered.bsky.social) reflects on the cultural & emotional impact of Bad Bunny’s #SuperbowlVX halftime performance. He explains how the symbolism, multiculturalism, and allyship create educational opportunities. Read here:

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OPINION: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance should last well beyond halftime and extend to classrooms - The Hechinger Report

Four ways to teach Bad Bunny’s halftime show that could foster a sense of collective healing

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My latest book review in Mochi Magazine on Gayatri Sethi’s “Diaspora-Ish”. I’m at a point in my life where Asian American authors are starting to ask me to review and/or endorse their books 📕. I don’t take it lightly. I’m hella grateful. www.mochimag.com/activism/dia...

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Why We Must Unlearn Belonging: Lessons from Gayatri Sethi’s “Diaspora-ish” - Mochi Magazine

Is the "crisis of belonging" actually a pressure to assimilate? Gayatri Sethi’s “Diaspora-ish” shows us why “unbelonging” from the empire is the first step toward an authentic, fluid Asian American id...

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

When NYC Filipino Americans find each other in Madison 🙏🏽. If you haven’t checked out Chris Maliwat’s work with SubwayGram (more active in IG) go get that photography book 📕 as a perfect coffee table piece for the holidays. subwaygram.com?srsltid=AfmB...

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

#docdadsofcolor finishing up Q4 ! Curtis is preparing for a talk in St Louis and I am working on a my NYU Faculty First Look Application 🙏🏽.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

When you are a Filipino scholar asked to speak on the day that Wisconsin passes its first ever Filipino American History Month resolution, you come with that poem in your pocket. education.wisc.edu/news/uw-madi...

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UW–Madison’s DelaRosa speaks at Wisconsin State Capitol for Filipino American History Month - School of Education

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Kuya Tony is a PhD Candidate / ABD on 11/5/2025 🙏🏽🇵🇭✊🏽. #phdjourney

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Happy Larry Itliong Day ! ✊🏽🇵🇭

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

“Children learn more from what you learn than what you teach” -Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois Imagery from my talk on Du Boisian sociology at Princeton. Thank you @theepuproject for the invite.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities” is now OUT! (Image from @drjaimeeswift ). Just purchased it and about to do a book club on it with my peer mentees. Go shower this book with love, buy it, bring them to your universities or companies, and amplify it. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻❤️

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“Teaching the Invisible Race” made it to Princeton University! I got to speak on the Du Boisian research that influenced my book’s theory. There is no Pro-Asianess without Du Boisian Pro-Black theory. If you need a speaker for your upcoming events in 2026 holler! Contact: www.tonyrosaspeaks.com

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

In 1955, W. Faulkner toured the Philippines as part of a U.S. State Department “cultural diplomacy” mission—one of many Cold War efforts to export “American freedom” through art. 🇵🇭✍🏽 Filipino writers, however, met Faulkner’s message with sharp critique, asking: Whose freedom?

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

#docdadsofcolor dissertation writing sesh ! 4 years in and we still out here ✊🏽✊🏿 we also bought tickets to a JID concert 🙏🏽 his new album is dope

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Just found out that 📕 “Teaching the Invisible Race” is used in a class at UW-Madison in the Education Policy Studies department 🙏🏽. If you’re using it or want to let’s connect !! Book 📕 : www.tonyrosaspeaks.com

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Congrats to my friend Rep Francesca Hong for launching her campaign for WI Governor! She represents the working class 🙏🏽

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Randy Kim @banhmichronicles.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

What does the future of DEI look like?—Is there still hope? I sat down with Filipino American DEI practitioner and author @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social 🎧 Listen now on The Bánh Mì Chronicles Podcast randykim.substack.com/p/is-there-h...

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Now till end of this semester, learn from Hmong / HMoob leaders & scholars. I’ll take any recommendations. Right now I’m learning from Ma Vang’s & Chundou Her’s work. I’m trying to see if there is a documented HMoob critical race theory. My Hmong friends are pointing me to Critical Refugee Studies.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Online facilitation today at New Haven Public Schools. So dope to see so many dope scholars and practitioners at this summit. Big shout out to my fellow homies also speaking today. @gholdym @social_justis ✊🏽❤️. #isangbagsak

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

When in Anchorage, Alaska go meet Dr. EJ Ramos David 🙏🏽🇵🇭. He wrote Brown Skin White Minds which continues to be an essential read for FilAms. We are doing a signed book swap. I cite his theories on colonial mentality in my book.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Peep this recent interview I did with the @futureancestors.tv podcast! Love what they are doing with amplifying Filipinx voices and helping us unpack counter stories to have a intergenerational connection to Philippine diaspora youtu.be/Bblvzaipm8o?...

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Tony Dela Rosa on Filipino Identity, Anti-Racist Teaching & Cross-Racial Solidarity

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The NEA breaks ties with the Anti-Defamation League—good news. The ADL is not what many people think. I support pro-Jewish education but reject Zionist education. Both can be true.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The haunting continues… Watching a baby too hungry to cry, as I feed my child. Watching a video of a child escape a burning building in Gaza as I hold my baby girl rocking her to sleep. Watching another hardening layer of genoc\de as normal because the people wear their skin like sheep. 😖

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

New Date ☝🏽 this webinar on combating anti-blackness in the FilAm community is on May 28th from 6-7:30 CT / 7-8:30 ET. FilAms come through !

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Bringing “Teaching the Invisible Race” features back! L DRA. ROSE ANN GUTIERREZ. Doktora Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor at University of Nevada Reno where she studies race, immigration, and the undocu-Asian American experience.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Reflections for AsianAm, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander Month: *my heritage is grounded in anti-imperialism *we don’t have this month w/o Ethnic Studies innovations like Black History Month 1/3

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Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) @fylpro.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

#FYLPROAlumniNews: FYLPRO 2018 delegate @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social is speaking at American Educational Research Association conference in Denver this week. www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In Denver this week for @aera_edresearch. Come through! I’m presenting from 3 research projects: 1) on Asian America and P@1st!n3, 2) on the NYC Men Teach Asian American Male teacher program that I founded, and 3) Asian American Education Policy in Wisconsin with some dope humans.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The critical Filipino American educator-activist world is so small. While at a deaf drag show celebrating my friend John aka Anita Martini (left image - we had to get 🍸 ), John introduced me to a Pinay deaf activist named Tina Childress who knows one of my research mentors out of CA. #serendeptity

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Critical Filipina/x/o Scholars: I’ve been assigned to lead a discussion on Kapwa for a study on Filipino Well-being & Politics. I want to use research on this to inform our coding and analysis process. If you have a favorite article (yours or someone else’s), please holler. 🙏🏽🇵🇭

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“Teaching the Invisible Race” made it to North Illinois University as a keynote for their Asian American and UndocuCenters. Shout out to their center directors Doktora Bringas & Doctora Lopez for bringing me there and for making space for intersectional narratives. 🙏🏽 🐺

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Big academic conferences coming up this Spring? Many people are feeling uncomfortable about attending with the impending attacks on Higher Education. Use your presentation space(s) to heal, organize, and strategize. These are places of critical mass. “Staying focused”doesn’t mean continue as normal.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

History we can’t forget: Higher Education primarily exploded in the post-World War II era, particularly from the 1940s through the 1970s, driven by the GI Bill & a growing demand to have intellectual capital help a war & global advancement effort.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Apparently according to the Daily / NYTimes , the president of Columbia U took a deal that didn’t actually mean a return of the govt’s $400 million, but a deal to come to a negotiation table. That is pre-compliance & Higher Ed Leadership at its lowest. I hope students are looking to alternatives.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Teach March 17th and the “End of Apartheid” in South Africa. Others argue that it was April 27, 1994 when Black South Africans could actually voted in the general elections for the 1st time which enabled for the release & ascendency of Nelson Mandela as President.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Images from my keynote at the Wisconsin Council for Social Studies “Making Social Studies Matter!” Educational Graphic of my speech created by Emily Nott 🙏🏽✊🏽💫. I’m really hopeful for Wisconsin b/c of conferences like this, despite the bs happening nationally to further destroy public education.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In my element 🙏🏽. A pic of a round table presentation on Afro-Asian histories and theories at @uwedpolicystudies Ed Policy Conference. Sharing more on Du Bois , Anna Julia Cooper, and the Black Feminist movement in relation to Asian diasporic solidarity. #stayfocused #isangbagsak #drdelarosaloading

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

ICC finally arrested Philippine ex-President Duterte for his crimes against humanity on March 11. For those who don’t know, his campaign / war on drugs unalived 30,000+ people. This is a win ✊🏽🇵🇭🙏🏽

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Been saying this a lot recently: it’s important to continue to assert existing legal tenets and protections. Just because the admin says something doesn’t make it true or legal. If your response is “nothing in the law matters anymore,” that’s not particularly useful, nor actually true (for now)

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The ADL is a Nazi organization

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Proud of my Kasama Makamae for leading such a dope Ed Policy Conference at UW-Madison grounded in Indigenous wisdom from Palestine to HoChunk to Kanaka 👏🏽✊🏽🇵🇭

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Today is the last day of the Battle of Manila 1945, the 2nd largest casualty battle next to Warsaw b/w Japan & Allied forces during WWII. Today, I’m highlighting the “Huk”or more formally known "Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon", which translates to "People's Army Against the Japanese” a communist group

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Today is Dr. Seuss bday. While the world continues to prop him up, it’s only fair that I share the racist, ironic, and plain weird juxtaposition of his anti-Asian racism via his cartoons for kids and adults (via anti-Japanese propaganda) with his make believe Asian daughter / Chrysanthemum-Pearl.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Happy bday to Dr. Du Bois! What is your favorite work from Du Bois ? Mine is Dark Water , Souls, and John Brown !

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If you know of any Wisconsin educators , please share with them! Can’t wait to speak to my Wisconsin Social Studies educators and researchers and to continue the work in finding ways to teach cross-racial literacies centering Afro-Asian solidarity

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Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) @fylpro.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#FYLPROAlumniNews: FYLPRO 2018 delegate @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social was the keynote speaker at the California Association of Asian and Pasifika Leaders in Education (CAAPLE) Conference last week in San Jose, California. FYLPRO 2012 delegate Michael Vea was also in attendance.

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Tony DelaRosa #isangbagsak @tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Everything I’ve learned about pro-Asianness, I’ve learned from Pro-Blackness. My Asian diasporic people’s needed to hear this today at CAAPLE. Grateful for the opportunity to keynote this conference.

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