Jill Damatac
@jilldamatac.bsky.social
Author, DIRTY KITCHEN: a memoir of 22 years undocumented in America (out now, One Signal/Atria/Simon & Schuster). Ex-undocumented Fil Am Brit 🇵🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧
Get the book here: linktr.ee/jilldamatac
Get the book here: linktr.ee/jilldamatac
NOT TO BE ALL LINKEDIN ON THIS APP, but so excited to share that I’ve signed with UTA Publishing today, repped by @peter23.bsky.social! My novel is in progress and it’s an honor to be working on it with Peter, whose vision for the story as a novel and possibly beyond aligns so well with mine 🌊
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NOT TO BE ALL LINKEDIN ON THIS APP, but so excited to share that I’ve signed with UTA Publishing today, repped by @peter23.bsky.social! My novel is in progress and it’s an honor to be working on it with Peter, whose vision for the story as a novel and possibly beyond aligns so well with mine 🌊
Scrolling through IG after a night of writing only for my 34As and I to catch strays
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Scrolling through IG after a night of writing only for my 34As and I to catch strays
Loved today’s talk at the San Francisco Public Library’s Filipino American Center! I have peaked, y’all
September 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Loved today’s talk at the San Francisco Public Library’s Filipino American Center! I have peaked, y’all
Loved being part of today's @atriabooks.bsky.social panel on resistance - and discussed the joint power of written resistance in THE PEOPLE'S PROJECT, curated by @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, out September 9 (I contributed a poem!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pe...
August 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Loved being part of today's @atriabooks.bsky.social panel on resistance - and discussed the joint power of written resistance in THE PEOPLE'S PROJECT, curated by @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, out September 9 (I contributed a poem!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pe...
#TheWhiteLotus #TheCaucasianLotus: we all got thrown for a loop! The use of Asian/East Asian non-linear storytelling (not arc- or plot-driven, more about exploring themes, sometimes circular, as it was here) did cross my mind mid-season, so it’s cool to see that that’s what was actually done. 1/3🧵
April 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
#TheWhiteLotus #TheCaucasianLotus: we all got thrown for a loop! The use of Asian/East Asian non-linear storytelling (not arc- or plot-driven, more about exploring themes, sometimes circular, as it was here) did cross my mind mid-season, so it’s cool to see that that’s what was actually done. 1/3🧵
Sometimes I just love Reddit. Today’s fave post: someone found a video on Doechii’s Youtube from 5 years ago. What a journey. Queen shit!
youtu.be/f9hOEtND_zs?...
youtu.be/f9hOEtND_zs?...
February 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sometimes I just love Reddit. Today’s fave post: someone found a video on Doechii’s Youtube from 5 years ago. What a journey. Queen shit!
youtu.be/f9hOEtND_zs?...
youtu.be/f9hOEtND_zs?...
DIRTY KITCHEN has its first ever Goodreads review and whew, I am EMOTIONAL 😭 Rachel Martin, I don’t know you, but thank you for the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
January 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
DIRTY KITCHEN has its first ever Goodreads review and whew, I am EMOTIONAL 😭 Rachel Martin, I don’t know you, but thank you for the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Deleted Instagram for the week as part of the #Meta protest. Cheers to @alexanderchee.bsky.social for the heads up!
(Here’s a picture of me in wrinkly pajamas at 3am, testing out my early birthday present)
(Here’s a picture of me in wrinkly pajamas at 3am, testing out my early birthday present)
January 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Deleted Instagram for the week as part of the #Meta protest. Cheers to @alexanderchee.bsky.social for the heads up!
(Here’s a picture of me in wrinkly pajamas at 3am, testing out my early birthday present)
(Here’s a picture of me in wrinkly pajamas at 3am, testing out my early birthday present)
Just the @nytimes.com cementing its rep as the guardian of the wealthy. In covering the LA wildfires, the Getty Museum and “iconic mansions” are mentioned. Nothing abt working- and middle-class ppl losing their homes, the unhoused, the elderly, or animals/wildlife. No resources shared, either. Lol.
January 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Just the @nytimes.com cementing its rep as the guardian of the wealthy. In covering the LA wildfires, the Getty Museum and “iconic mansions” are mentioned. Nothing abt working- and middle-class ppl losing their homes, the unhoused, the elderly, or animals/wildlife. No resources shared, either. Lol.
Not me deleting social media only to re-download to post myself in a dress, for once. Wishing you all a gentle start to 2025 ✨
January 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Not me deleting social media only to re-download to post myself in a dress, for once. Wishing you all a gentle start to 2025 ✨
MANILA, Sep 18, 1979: “Former President Diosdado Macapagal has charged that the Carter Administration has coddled ‘an overstaying and corrupt dictatorship against the people’ by supporting President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who has ruled [the Philippines] by martial law for seven years.”🧵 #jimmycarter
December 30, 2024 at 3:51 AM
MANILA, Sep 18, 1979: “Former President Diosdado Macapagal has charged that the Carter Administration has coddled ‘an overstaying and corrupt dictatorship against the people’ by supporting President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who has ruled [the Philippines] by martial law for seven years.”🧵 #jimmycarter
December 28, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Without downloading any new pictures, what is your energy going into 2025?
December 28, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Without downloading any new pictures, what is your energy going into 2025?
Watching the superior Little Women (1994). Winona Ryder, Christian Bale, baby Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Susan Sarandon? There is no other version.
December 21, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Watching the superior Little Women (1994). Winona Ryder, Christian Bale, baby Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Susan Sarandon? There is no other version.
Watching Crazy Rich Asians (it’s one of my Christmas comfort movies). Always love seeing Kris Aquino in the yellow of her mother Corazon Aquino’s People Power campaign against the Marcos dictatorship. I have a t-shirt from the 80s and it always brings me joy. My first real president was a woman 🇵🇭💛
December 17, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Watching Crazy Rich Asians (it’s one of my Christmas comfort movies). Always love seeing Kris Aquino in the yellow of her mother Corazon Aquino’s People Power campaign against the Marcos dictatorship. I have a t-shirt from the 80s and it always brings me joy. My first real president was a woman 🇵🇭💛
Just when I didn’t think I could love #BlackDoves even more 🔪🇵🇭
December 17, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Just when I didn’t think I could love #BlackDoves even more 🔪🇵🇭
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(14 (or 15? lost count)/20): HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES, Carmen Maria Machado
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #Horror #ShortStories
(14 (or 15? lost count)/20): HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES, Carmen Maria Machado
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #Horror #ShortStories
December 16, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(14 (or 15? lost count)/20): HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES, Carmen Maria Machado
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #Horror #ShortStories
(14 (or 15? lost count)/20): HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES, Carmen Maria Machado
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #Horror #ShortStories
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(13 (or 14? lost count)/20): THE NAMESAKE, Jhumpa Lahiri
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #AsianAmerican #AAPISky
(13 (or 14? lost count)/20): THE NAMESAKE, Jhumpa Lahiri
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #AsianAmerican #AAPISky
December 14, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(13 (or 14? lost count)/20): THE NAMESAKE, Jhumpa Lahiri
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #AsianAmerican #AAPISky
(13 (or 14? lost count)/20): THE NAMESAKE, Jhumpa Lahiri
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #AsianAmerican #AAPISky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(12 (or 14? lost count)/20): THE WOMAN WARRIOR, Maxine Hong Kingston
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #AsianAmerican #AAPISky #memoir
(12 (or 14? lost count)/20): THE WOMAN WARRIOR, Maxine Hong Kingston
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #AsianAmerican #AAPISky #memoir
December 13, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(12 (or 14? lost count)/20): THE WOMAN WARRIOR, Maxine Hong Kingston
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #AsianAmerican #AAPISky #memoir
(12 (or 14? lost count)/20): THE WOMAN WARRIOR, Maxine Hong Kingston
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #AsianAmerican #AAPISky #memoir
In DIRTY KITCHEN, I wrote my final years as an #undocumented #immigrant, what I thought and feared at the time about Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and why I decided to not move forward with applying for it. I hate how right I've turned out to be.
#memoir #BookSky #AAPISky
#memoir #BookSky #AAPISky
December 12, 2024 at 2:09 PM
In DIRTY KITCHEN, I wrote my final years as an #undocumented #immigrant, what I thought and feared at the time about Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and why I decided to not move forward with applying for it. I hate how right I've turned out to be.
#memoir #BookSky #AAPISky
#memoir #BookSky #AAPISky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(11 (or 13? lost count)/20): CALIBAN AND THE WITCH, Sylvia Federici
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #feminism #capitalism #empire
(11 (or 13? lost count)/20): CALIBAN AND THE WITCH, Sylvia Federici
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #feminism #capitalism #empire
December 12, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(11 (or 13? lost count)/20): CALIBAN AND THE WITCH, Sylvia Federici
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #feminism #capitalism #empire
(11 (or 13? lost count)/20): CALIBAN AND THE WITCH, Sylvia Federici
#BookChallenge #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #feminism #capitalism #empire
Finished reviewing my publisher’s 2nd proof of my memoir ✔️ This was the most trauma-laden chapter (built around dinuguan, a Filipino blood stew, and the manananggal, a mythological Filipino creature). @atriabooks.bsky.social
#memoir #BookSky #writing #aapisky #asianamerican #filipinoamerican
#memoir #BookSky #writing #aapisky #asianamerican #filipinoamerican
December 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Finished reviewing my publisher’s 2nd proof of my memoir ✔️ This was the most trauma-laden chapter (built around dinuguan, a Filipino blood stew, and the manananggal, a mythological Filipino creature). @atriabooks.bsky.social
#memoir #BookSky #writing #aapisky #asianamerican #filipinoamerican
#memoir #BookSky #writing #aapisky #asianamerican #filipinoamerican