Pinay Collection of Filipina women

Pinay Collection of Filipina women





The Filipina Women’s Network (FWN) launched the "Filipinas Against Violence" campaign in response to the lack of a specific agency or organization in the U.S. that is geared to the needs and cultural considerations of Filipina women and girls in violent situations.

FWN advocates the implementation of the blueprint released in 2002 to improve the City of San Francisco's system in helping victims of domestic violence.

It was the killing of a Filipina woman, 28-year-old Claire Joyce Tempongko, witnessed by her two young children, in 2000 that prompted the investigation of San Francisco's citywide response system to handle domestic violence. There is no Filipino in the commission that has been tasked to implement the investigation's results.

Kamala Harris, now San Francisco's District Attorney, wrote in an article in Asian Week (Dec. 5, 2003), "Our city desperately needs a change in our criminal justice system. I can sum up why I'm running for district attorney with the story of one Filipina American's life: Claire Tempongko."

Another Filipina woman, 32-year-old Marisa Corpuz, was killed by her husband, William Corpuz, in September 2004. Her death is prompting San Francisco prosecutors once again to rethink the city's system for safeguarding victims and counseling their abusers. William Corpuz just completed 39 weekly counseling sessions before he slashed Marisa's throat in their home shared with her parents and one of their two young children.

The San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women has planted the seed in the creation of a Filipino Advisory Council now called the Filipino Community Alliance to examine the high domestic violence incidents in the Filipino community. Realizing that there is no specific agency or organization in San Francisco devoted to the needs and cultural considerations of Filipina women and girls in violent situations, FWN reaches out to the Filipina community through the following activities

1. Publish the V-Diaries, FWN's anti-violence resource and help guide (distributed in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York)
2. Produce two benefit performances of "The Vagina Monologues" and "Usaping Puki" (Tagalog version) in San Francisco and New York.
The Tagalog version is part of our community outreach to the Filipinos in California, the largest Asian Pacific American (APA) group (1.1 million). 2006 was the first year that an all-Tagalog show has ever been shown in the U.S.
















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