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On a Wednesday night in October, volunteers of the monthly Balikbayan Book Club<\/a> transformed the Rizal Center\u2019s ballroom into a family-style dining room. They shuffled tables across the dance floor, pushed smaller ones together and moved a whiteboard in front of guests to share community events and updates. Onstage, a projector screen flickered.<\/p>\n

In the back, volunteers\u2019 \u201cchikahan\u201d \u2014 <\/i>or casual conversations \u2014 broke the silence of busy hands preparing the fixings for Filipino comfort food. Crispy fried garlic, chopping scallions and hard-boiled eggs were paired with the arroz caldo, Filipino rice porridge, simmering in a large slow cooker.<\/p>\n

Out front, club leader Austin Kole and friend Hannah Corpuz warmed party trays of pork adobo \u2014 a popular dish cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaves and whole black peppercorn served over rice \u2014 on a small grill. Rising smoke saluted the nearby statue of Jos\u00e9 Rizal, the Philippine national hero whom the Chicago community center is named. The club picked Rizal\u2019s novel \u201cNoli Me T\u00e1ngere,\u201d for its October gathering held during Filipino American History Month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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This was a celebratory night, organizers said. Kole and Corpuz, who spent days prior planning and premaking the food, expected a larger turnout.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, we\u2019re feeding what? Forty-plus people once a month?\u201d said Kole, among the first club members and a \u201cbayani,\u201d the title given to leaders, which means \u201chero\u201d in Tagalog. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy. I love it. It\u2019s so cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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\r\n \"\"\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>Balikbayan Book Club member Hannah Corpuz (right) fires up the grill on Oct. 7, 2026 to warm a few party trays of Filipino food.<\/span>Camilla Forte\/Borderless Magazine\/Catchlight Local\/Report for America<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t
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\r\n \"\"\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>Dozens of attendees line up for Filipino food at the Rizal Center during Balikbayan Book Club on Oct. 7, 2026. <\/span>Camilla Forte\/Borderless Magazine\/Catchlight Local\/Report for America<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t
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Since launching last December, the club that began with 10 members now draws around nearly 50 people each month to the Rizal Center for Filipino food, literature and conversation. Its Discord group chat<\/a> has 150 users, more than 200 subscribed to email newsletters<\/a> \u2014 and Instagram reels<\/a> draw hundreds of likes and thousands of views.<\/p>\n

Fun memes and free hot meals may get people to the door, but the reasons why they stay \u2014 and return each month \u2014 vary. Club organizers and members say the group offers young Filipinos a space to explore heritage, cultural identity and learn more about the Philippines and their family history, while keeping alive the memories of loved ones who have passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people [who] come are like half Filipino and don\u2019t know their culture that well, or they grew up in the Philippines, and they\u2019re very much connected,\u201d said Teddy Gonzales, the club\u2019s founder and chief bayani. \u201cOr they just moved in from [the] East or West Coast, and are looking for a community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s no one specific right way to be Filipino,\u201d they said. \u201cWe all kind of make the journey back together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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\r\n \"\"\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>First image: Austin Kole, among the book club's first members, curates the dinner menu for monthly meetings. He donned a custom apron Oct. 7 sewn by his fianc\u00e9e. Second image: Volunteers help with the fixings for arroz caldo, a Filipino rice porridge, including hard-boiled eggs and fried garlic. <\/span>Camilla Forte\/Borderless Magazine\/Catchlight Local\/Report for America<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t
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A name rooted in mission\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

For Gonzales, the club\u2019s name mirrors its mission of unity. \u201cBalikbayan\u201d combines two Tagalog words together: \u201cbalik,\u201d which means \u201creturn\u201d and \u201cbayan,\u201d which means \u201chomeland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Sr.<\/a>, coined the term in the 1970s after launching tourism initiatives to encourage Filipinos working or living abroad to visit or return to the country. A program meant to help boost the nation\u2019s economy became a way for families miles apart to stay connected. Balikbayan boxes \u2014 packages filled with clothes, food and other goods that Filipinos abroad send to loved ones during Christmas \u2014 are a symbol of that gesture and a tradition that brings a family\u2019s bond into focus.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour history is something that\u2019s never going to be taken from you,\u201d Gonzales said. \u201cIf you want it, it\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Gonzales, making that history accessible meant fostering a space where people can show up as themselves. Although most members are Filipino, Gonzales said the club is open to anyone willing to join.<\/p>\n

At the Oct. 7 meeting, another bayani set up slides on Rizal\u2019s novel, \u201cNoli Me T\u00e1ngere,\u201d on a screen. Published in the 1880s, the book \u2014 whose title translates to \u201ctouch me not\u201d in Latin \u2014 remains one of Rizal\u2019s most prominent works on the impact of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019m never going to gatekeep knowledge,\u201d Gonzales told members that night. \u201cSo, even if you\u2019re here and you\u2019re like, \u2018Girl, I picked up the book yesterday;\u2019 \u2018I never read one page;\u2019 or \u2018I just finished it right before I got here\u2019 \u2014 you are welcome in the space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Literature surpassing generations\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Balikbayan Book Club\u2019s reading list spurs conversations on generational differences and what it means to be Filipino, especially for those who immigrated to the U.S. or other countries, were born and raised in the Midwest or elsewhere, do not speak the language, or are multiracial.<\/p>\n

In the book, \u201cThe Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race,” members learned from author Anthony Christian Ocampo about the shared histories between Filipino and Latino communities. Members read testimonies from Filipina survivors of sexual slavery during World War II in M. Evelina Galang\u2019s \u201cLola\u2019s House\u2019s: Filipino Women Living with War.\u201d<\/p>\n

November\u2019s read \u2014 journalist Malak Gharib\u2019s graphic memoir, \u201cI Was Their American Dream\u201d \u2014 uses illustrations to reflect on her experiences navigating Filipino and Egyptian customs while growing up in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis community helps us feel part of something,\u201d said member Angeline Barthel, who is biracial and over the last few years began learning more about her Filipino identity. \u201cI like that the most \u2014 just being able to talk to people. But also just like reading the stories because it exposes me to things I didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Member Ernie Royales feels that sense of belonging. Growing up Filipino, in a predominantly white Chicago suburb, Royales felt like an outsider.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent my entire childhood being this weird Brown kid,\u201d he told Borderless. \u201cI\u2019m also trans, and that just adds to the layers of isolation. I can\u2019t describe how incredible of a feeling it\u2019s been to be in a room of people that look like me and also don\u2019t care at all about anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Gonzales, the book club\u2019s mission is personal \u2014 inspired by the conversations with their father around the dinner table before he passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThinking about how much this would have mattered to him, to have a community of people who care enough about their history to do something with it,\u201d they told Borderless. \u201cI really just envision, like I don’t know, talking to a couple people around a table like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amanda Tugade is a reporter at Borderless Magazine. Email her at amanda@borderlessmag.org.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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