Filipino American creator partnerships
Food, Language, Family, and Everyday Filipino American Life
I make videos and write stories about the details that make my Filipino American life specific.
A partnership can enter that work when the product belongs in the grocery trip, meal, family exchange, joke, or everyday decision already on screen.
Public work
Tagalog, Grocery Trips, and the Food My Parents Send Home
These videos use language, food, and family behavior as the subject. The cultural detail stays visible because it is what happens in the video.
Speaking Tagalog at Costco
A shopping trip becomes a language challenge. The video keeps the awkward pauses, the words I can reach, and the practical reality of using Tagalog in public.
View the original postSpeaking Tagalog With My Parents at Costco
My parents join the shopping trip while I practice Tagalog with the people who have heard every version of it.
View the original postFilipino Parent Care Package
Homemade food, produce, snacks, and practical supplies show how my parents take care of me.
View the original postTinola, Pandesal, Mangoes, and Snacks
A family visit becomes an inventory of the dishes and packaged food my parents sent home with me.
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Brand partnership proof
A Natural Place for the Product
My Banza partnership put a 20-gram fiber claim inside a Better Than Everyone comedy episode. The product appeared in the premise, cooking, packaging, and finished meal.
For culturally specific work, I look for the equally concrete role. A product may belong in a family recipe, grocery decision, language exchange, or familiar household behavior when the brief supports it.
View the Banza case studyPersonal writing
The House, the Language, and the Family Stories Around Them
The Pink House: My Filipino Family’s First Home in America
A personal story about the house my parents bought, the garden my mother built, and the life our family made there.
Read the storyThe Time I Cussed Everyone Out at Church
A childhood church skit, two half-learned languages, and the Tagalog phrase I could remember under pressure.
Read the storyEditorial record
Profiles About Filipino and Queer Identity
These interviews document an earlier period of my creative work and the identity that continues to inform what I make.
Tostada Magazine
Inspired By… RV Mendoza is the “queer you needed when you were younger”
A profile about Filipino and queer identity, music, and RV’s place in Detroit’s creative community.
Read the profileIn the Heart Stories
RV Mendoza is becoming the adult that you’ve always needed growing up
A long-form profile connecting RV’s Filipino identity, software career, creative work, and Detroit roots.
Read the profileWUSSY Mag
Cool Queers: RV Mendoza on Filipinx Representation and “Weaponized Thiccness”
An interview about Filipinx representation, queer identity, body image, and making pop music.
Read the profilePartnership inquiries
Tell Me What the Product Does and Who the Campaign Needs to Reach
Send the product, audience, goal, deliverables, timing, budget, usage, and exclusivity. I’ll reply with fit, availability, questions, and next steps.