In honor of Filipino American History Month, Caretakers looks at the history of Filipinos in care work and profiles Filipino Americans on the front lines today. According to Caretakers’ creator Geena Rocero, the four-part docuseries shows “Filipinos as we are, and tells the stories of not just nurses, but all types of people providing vital care.”
Watch the stories of nurse Belinda Ellis, who cared for COVID patients at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens; therapist and drag mother of House of Manila, Aleksa Manila; Chef Channing Centeno, who cooked for Black Lives Matter protestors; and phlebotomist Angel Bonilla, the first trans contestant on The Voice.
*source: Insider, CNN 2020
In 2018, Angel Bonilla began her singing career as the first openly trans contestant on "The Voice." When the pandemic swept the country, she left it all behind to care for the sick -- only to end up a COVID…
Black Filipino chef Channing Centeno has spent his life bringing people together through cookery. In 2020, as people nationwide fought for racial justice, chef Centeno fed the hungry in the streets, using Filipino delicacies to fuel social change.
One side of Aleksa's office is her mental health practice, while the other half is where she does her virtual drag.
Belinda is a veteran nurse and typical Filipina "auntie." She left the Philippines to work as a nurse through the AIDS epidemic, the first Gulf War in Iraq, and eventually at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, the center of New York's…