03/09/2026
FAHM, ILY! is ONE MONTH AWAY! 🇵🇭🎤🪭
Get to know our Morning Session Facilitators, Marilou Mariko and Sarah Amplo!
🌞 Marilou Mariko Carrera is a q***r Filipinx-Okinawan cultural worker with foundations in healthcare, organizing, and advocacy. They root largely in the creative practices of writing, movement, and fiber arts as pathways and practices for personal and collective power, sharing stories, and healing. Marilou Mariko brings their experiences in community engagement, grantmaking, advocacy, & organizing, and a desire for intergenerational community spaces, to AFIRE and their role generating resources and developing community partnerships. Their current preoccupations include writing and reading q***r stories, Kali martial arts and other rituals as spiritual practice, and perimenopause in the time of gender expansive bodies.
🌞 Sarah Anna Antillon Amplo (she/they) is a q***r Filipina American from New York City. She is currently a PhD Student in Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she explores the constructions of race, gender, and sexuality in the Filipinx American diaspora.
❗️REGISTER TODAY @ tinyurl.com/afire-fahm2026 ❗️
FAHM, ILY! is a derivative of The Great Baklaan in 2024 which was a community-driven, collaborative effort centering LGBTQ+ Filipinx/a/os. This event is also linked to a research collaboration between Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE), the Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) and Tayo Project and Dr. Rachel Kuo at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies) about the kinds of information we pay attention to and share with each other, and how our own lived experiences shape how we understand information we send and receive.
