hanaleihanalei.com profile picture

hanaleihanalei.com

About Me

Please check out my first full length solo work

Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know

when it comes to your city!
Hanalei Ramos is a Filipina-American community organizer, educator, and performer from Jersey City, New Jersey. She has toured around the nation to various college and university campuses as a spoken word artist, and has also been seen as a performer and panelist at GirlFest Honolulu, the National Asian-American Student Conference, the East Coast Asian-American Student Union, and the March for Women’s Lives. She holds a degree in English and secondary education, and as a community artist educator, she has taught writing and poetry workshops to youth and senior women in the Jersey City and New York City area. Hanalei has also completed the Asian Arts Initiative’s nationally modeled "Artists in Community Training" program (ACT.)Most recently, she has authored Letters to Martha, a personal testimony to her own experience as a survivor of domestic violence, and Foiled Stars, a collection of poems and prose. Her first solo performance work, Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know, was created through the generosity of the Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia), and will be excerpted at the National Asian-American Theater Festival in New York City in June 2007.
http://www.hanaleihanalei.com
ask me anything:
@ my treehouse for the emotionally homeless!
also, check out my writing!
letters to martha and foiled stars

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

you, everyone you know, saltoftheearth people, and those who rep Jersey City, NJ hard.

My Blog

Well, alright. (A Birthday Entry)

Greetings from the frigid 11F of the east coast! It is quite chilly, and makes for a good snow day. On my last day of being 25, I find myself enjoying the quiet of my laptop, and a long list of boo...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:04:00 GMT

Jena 6

White Supremacy at its finest Lots of mobilization around the Jena 6 (Jena is a small town in Louisiana) another panoply of backwardness. Today (FRIDAY) is the deadline to sign. Please do so! http:/...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:32:00 GMT

Some of my fave pix (baybaybay)

Been trying to experiment with people pix, since I don't take that many, nor do i feel particularly good about the photos I take which are NOT shots of some random symmetrical something a la macr...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:40:00 GMT

former AAMOTWs!

  geologicness - leirah - modelminority. whatchooknowabout2001? and, we look cute! (i am sweaty.  natch.)
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:25:00 GMT

i love my people so bad!

  forreal forreal. thank you, everyone.
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:47:00 GMT

REGISTER NOW: 4th National APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit

REGISTER NOW: 4th National APIA Spoken Word & Poetry SummitThe Asian Pacific Islander American Spoken Word and Poetry Summit is the largest national gathering of APIA spoken word artists, performe...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:31:00 GMT

Guns and Tampons : Biggest Deal of MY LIFE! and podcast!

http://www.naatf.org/index.php?page_id=80PLEASE BUY YOUR TIX NOW! :)PHL: Sat, June 9 (7pm) @ the Asian Arts InitiativeNYC: Sat June 16 (8 pm) @ the Abingdon TheaterSun June 17 (3p and 8p) @ the Abingd...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:42:00 GMT

4th APIA Spoken Word and Poetry Summit

  www.apiasummit.com http://www.myspace.com/apiasummit  http://www.flickr.com/groups/apiasummit/   you know you want to. STICK US IN YOUR TOP 24!
Posted by on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:28:00 GMT

The beginnings of some vlogging <3

footage of Stephen and me performing at ECAASU 2004!Also, can I just say that from the last blog entry on, I will be never ever ever ever ever ever be a cut n paste kinda lady no mo? So! If you are ...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 08:21:00 GMT

Apologies for sounding like a robot...

Hello, friends! Upon rereading my previous posts, my most sincere apologies for sounding like such an asshole cut and paste and copy type of blogger. As a self-celebrated online spectacle, I owe my ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:45:00 GMT