Jovelle Tamayo

@jovellephoto

She/her. Visual journalist in VT/NH. Born in the Philippines, raised in NJ. Available for photo/video assignments: hello [at]

Joined August 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 22

    “We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire, and the people we love are burning.” - Sandra Cisneros

  2. Jun 8
  3. Retweeted
    May 30

    Many kids are suffering from trauma. It's good that some schools are changing their tactics in helping them.

  4. Retweeted
    May 20

    Wrote a response to "My Family's Slave" on language and how it obscures the dynamic between enslaver & enslaved:

  5. Retweeted
    May 19

    "The only thing that makes sense is continuing in the tradition of the concerned photographer… shining light on darkness." —Stanley Greene

  6. May 19
    Replying to

    Ex: In New Brunswick — a city w/ dense Mexican pop + plenty of auth. food — there's a white-owned Mexican rest. called CRIMINALS AND TACOS.

  7. May 19
    Replying to

    Would be great to make something like this for NJ/NY.

  8. May 19

    Very cool. And important. Resource names white-owned, culturally appropriative restaurants in :

  9. May 17
  10. Retweeted
    May 16

    some interesting context on slavery in the Philippines from a noted historian:

  11. Retweeted
    May 10

    lesson learned: never set up your player interview with the dugout in the background

  12. May 5

    Ooh. developed a viz literacy curriculum for youth, grades 6-12:

  13. Apr 13

    Midnight thoughts with and : Can you notarize a tweet?

  14. Mar 30
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    Mar 27
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    Mar 9

    Please remember when discussing issues of homelessness that people who are homeless are PEOPLE and your NEIGHBORS, not unwelcome interlopers

  17. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    For anyone still thinking Muslims come to US and resist assimilation, here's a photo of my dad in bellbottoms w/ fro after he migrated:

  18. Mar 3
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    Feb 26

    I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration. Welcome to America.

  20. Retweeted
    Mar 1

    My fellow journalists: BEFORE you report on undocumented people, you MUST know these basic facts:

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