Filipino Interest

Performance: The Language of Unbreaking Book Tour Continues

Wednesday, 10/15/2025
6:30 - 7:30
Ortega Meeting Room
Ortega

3223 Ortega Street
San Francisco, CA 94122
United States

415-355-5700

Keana Aguila Labra, author of The Language of Unbreaking, invites Bay Area Filipino-American and Brown Poets to read from their works.

Keana Aguila Labra (they/them/she/her) is a queer Cebuana Tagalog Filipinx genre- and genderfluid/non-binary poet, editor and writer in diaspora residing on stolen Ohlone Tamyen land. She works to provide a safe literary space for underserved and underrepresented communities as co-Editor-in-Chief of literary magazine, Marías at Sampaguitas and co-Founder of the BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ focused independent publishing house, Sampaguita Press. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks, No Saints (Lazy Adventurer Publishing, 2020) and Mohilak (Fahmidan Co. & Publishing, 2021) and Kanunay (Self-Published, 2022).

Sampaguita Press - Keana Aguila Labra

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