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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This RBG digital art is created by my daughter, Leani Alnica, between February and March 2019 on her hospital bed as she was battling against late stage colon cancer. A feisty and compassionate soul, Nikki looked up to RBG as a woman trailblazer, who like her, battled against the same disease.
My daughter, 27, passed on bravely on November 17, 2019 in my arms. The gloomiest day of my earthly life.
Please keep Nikki’s leadership and memory alive through her art. Proceeds will help sustain our nonprofit Women’s Immigration & Communications Cafe (WICCAFE).
Price: $60
Email marivirmontebon@gmail.com to purchase item.
Print on Mug
Nikki’s pink doodle is one of the many creations she’s known for. Please keep Nikki’s leadership and memory alive through her art. This lovely mug is a great gift idea.
Proceeds will help sustain our nonprofit Women’s Immigration & Communications Cafe (WICCAFE).
Price: $25
Email marivirmontebon@gmail.com to purchase item.
Print on Canvas
Nikki’s pink doodle is one of the many creations she’s known for. Please keep Nikki’s leadership and memory alive through her art. This print on canvas is a great gift idea.
Proceeds will help sustain our nonprofit Women’s Immigration & Communications Cafe (WICCAFE).
Price: $45
Email marivirmontebon@gmail.com to purchase item.
In the Belly of the Beas
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In the Belly of the Beast is a valuable contribution to the rare collection of human trafficking narratives that are still widely silenced by shame and fear. The stories of pain and triumph in this book are real-life experiences of Filipino men and women which give readers strength, inspiration, and wisdom. (Published by the University of San Carlos Press. Cebu City. 2017)
Price: $25
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Biting the Big Apple
Biting the Big Apple lends an insightful and inspiring presentation of immigration patterns in the U.S., aside from the fact that it is at times funny and exciting. Her own diaspora is not a typical one, however: Immigration was her only choice after her husband, a leader of the Filipino political party Bayan Muna in Bohol, became a victim of a summary execution perpetrated by military death squads during the past Arroyo regime. She sought and has been granted a political asylum by the U.S. government.
The story that this book tells is a long saga of crossing the seas. In this memoir, Marivir's own family members were in fact part of the centuries-old Philippine diaspora. From the struggling great grandfather who left a young wife and small children in the tiny island of Siquijor in central Philippines, then lost his life in the asparagus farms in Stockton, to this journalist who has become an immigrant herself, this book has so much to share.
Price: $10
Email marivirmontebon@gmail.com to purchase item.