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WARRIOR STORIES — Beauty of the Warrior Spirit

WARRIOR STORIES — Together, we challenge the stereotypes of women across the globe, redefine beauty as strength, and explore the themes of bridging our past, standing strong in our present, and building a powerful future. In these stories, each piece has a meaning, and each location has a significance to our culture.

This look was inspired by the melting pot of Filipino identity in the Philippines and across the diaspora. Dedicated to all those that survive street harassment everyday, the jeepney drivers, and all the indigenous peoples still here. #NoToJeepneyPhaseout

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Revolutionary AYAT - Lani Asuncion x Survival Arts

As part of the Revolutionary AYAT project, a multimedia collaborative community art intervention which aims to contest public narratives of war, colonialism, race, and migration, Survival Arts presents a counter narrative in performance, movement & sound, and community training for social justice.

Revolutionary AYAT (2021-22), the word ayat is the Ilocano word for love, is a multimedia public art project in collaboration with Survival Arts, in a ritual performance ceremony held on Memorial Day 2022 at The Hiker (Kitson—created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson) monument in Arsenal Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts one of 13 monuments throughout MA, out of 52 reproduced across the US. It marks the Spanish American War and the occupation of the Philippines, Puerto Rico & Cuba.

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#NoMeansNo — Survival Arts Teaches Consent in 13 Languages

In the Philippines, ​a person is reportedly raped per hour​. In America, ​every 92 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted​. In this article, Jamie Yancovitz and Julia Saubier discuss their campaign #NoMeansNo in 7 world languages and 6 languages of the Philippines.

Survival Arts represents a global movement to equip women, girls, and members of the LGBTQ community with the tools and mindset to protect themselves, and to likewise, seek to challenge and dismantle power systems and paradigms which give rise to a world where sexual violence, harassment, and abuse are the norm. The international multilingual Survival Arts #NoMeansNo campaign is just the first step in our global plan to educate the public about sexual consent.

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Survival Arts x Bayani Art

Bayani Art, one of the premier lifestyle brands of Filipino culture in the United States and throughout the diaspora, has partnered with Survival Arts to honor Warrior Queen Urduha. 

Survival Arts Academy continues the legacy of Queen Urduha by leading the first all-womxn’s Kali training group internationally. By training womxn and girls to protect their bodies from violence and sexual assault, Survival Arts works to carry on the Pinay warrior bloodline. 

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