nebula-ridin' space cowboy

can people be rich without benefitting from some system that oppresses others? i think there are people who become financially successful through their hard work but i certainly don’t think they got there on hard work alone. no fucking way.

(Source: overtheeventhorizon, via cosmopolitan-fascist)

mehreenkasana:

theuncolonizedmind:

irresistible-revolution:

withrevolutionarycries:

talldarkbishoujo:

ethiopienne:

this was some grade-A white woman bullshit

that entire show was grade-A white woman bullshit tbh

this movie should have just been called “Ugly Americans” though

i think the most histerically hypocritical issue with this bullshit film is that they were actually able to travel to Dubai (right?? am i wrong about the place) AND film the movie AND get actors to act in it—-but then spent half the movie talking shit about how conservative and backward and repressive the culture is? THEN HOW GOES YOU FILMING THAT SHIT.

fucking what? only the enlightened/poor folks showed up to play repressed Brown people in your movie.

As someone who grew up in the UAE (mostly in Dubai but I visited Abu Dhabi several times), this shit is not only racist and disrespectful, it’s wildly exaggerated. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are incredibly cosmopolitan, and if some fool ass white woman dropped her condoms and started going off, most Emirati folk (btw, the UAE is almost 90% expatriate populate, so most of the populance isn’t wearing burqas or dishdashas) would just laugh.

Oh, and btw, in the UAE you can buy condoms in the damn store same as the USA.

Signed,

Brown Girl who grew up hot and fashionable and having sex in the UAE.

They weren’t allowed to film in Dubai, but the scenes were filmed in Morocco. 

Racist, hypocritical, overly exaggerated ‘humor’ by typical white people. Not surprised.

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ai-yo:

James had a kingsmill white bread complexion, he blushed slightly it seemed like someone had spread strawberry jam over his cheeks. His hair was the colour of custard that had been watered down severely like the nasty one they served back in primary school that I begged the lunch ladies not to let near my cake. I didn’t care that the cake may have been dry I didn’t want that shit near my cake.

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cosmopolitan-fascist:

Drone strike in Afghanistan kills five children. Greenwald: “If one of the relatives of the children just killed in Afghanistan decided to attack the U.S., what would they be called by the U.S. media? Terrorists. Primitive, irrational, religious fanatics beyond human decency.”

watanafghanistan:

This happens over and over and over again, and there are several points worth making here beyond the obvious horror:

1) To the extent these type of incidents are discussed at all — and in American establishment media venues, they are most typically ignored — there are certain unbending rules that must be observed in order to retain Seriousness credentials. No matter how many times the U.S. kills innocent people in the world, it never reflects on our national character or that of our leaders. Indeed, none of these incidents convey any meaning at all. They are mere accidents, quasi-acts of nature which contain no moral information (in fact, the NYT article on these civilian deaths, out of nowhere, weirdly mentioned that “in northern Afghanistan, 23 members of a wedding celebration drowned in severe flash flooding” — as though that’s comparable to the U.S.’s dropping bombs on innocent people). We’ve all been trained, like good little soldiers, that the phrase “collateral damage” cleanses and justifies this and washes it all way: yes, it’s quite terrible, but innocent people die in wars; that’s just how it is. It’s all grounded in America’s central religious belief that the country has the right to commit violence anywhere in the world, at any time, for any cause.

At some point — and more than a decade would certainly qualify — the act of continuously killing innocent people, countless children, in the Muslim world most certainly does reflect upon, and even alters, the moral character of a country, especially its leaders. You can’t just spend year after year piling up the corpses of children and credibly insist that it has no bearing on who you are.

Continued here

(Source: realitista)

jing-lan asked: OOOH YOU BE TUMBLIN' AT WORK HOMES?? ...or maybe you just queued up some shit... in which case nevermind. Also, I just noticed it is your lunch break. 2X NEVERMIND COMBO!

YEAH I WAS LUNCH TUMBLIN’ AND GENERALLY LOOKING AT NSFW STUFF AT WORK WHOOPS

plannedparenthood:

Real Talk: Your Labia

Have you ever wondered if your labia look funny? Tons of people of all ages worry that their inner labia are too long/dangly, that their labia is a wonky color, or that any number of other things might be wrong down there. Which is why we were so psyched to discover that Scarleteen went ahead and broke down some of our biggest labia-related anxieties (lanxieties? labieties?).

Spoiler alert: it’s okay that your inner labia are longer than your outer ones!

photo credit: WarmSleepy

cosmopolitan-fascist:

colorblinding:

I really resent that I have to do this because people just love to blow shit up and love dramu so much that they can’t get their heads out of their asses long enough to actually be responsible and do all the reading in the chronological order in which posts went up. I could be writing a post on model minorities, but instead I am doing this because no one cares to be responsible and instead wants to keep on wanking on by relying on hearsay.

This all began on May 21st. A racist POC decided to contact me (colorblinding) and say that Asians are not POC, did not stand in alliance with POCs, and “brought it [racist experiences] on themselves.” I responded here with a post detailing historical experiences of Asian Americans. There was then a follow up post in response to clarify Hawaiian internment experiences.

Somewhere down the line, bankuei responds with this post and I respond to bankuei here.

Inspired by the support generated in response to that racist asshole who was denying Asians of our POC status, I decided to make a post on Afro-Asian solidarity. As I was reading Bill Mullen’s book, I came across a passage that inspired me to make a post about the way in which Asians were historically coded black by black activists during the Black Power Movement. The scholars quoted are some of the most reputable scholars on Afro-Asian relations in the world. I did not distort the nuance of any research. I did not change any historical facts for my own benefit. While people may not believe these events occurred, there is a huge historical archive that you can research on your own. If anyone can disprove the validity of what I, or any of these scholars, have said, I welcome you to it.

Of course, cosmopolitan-fascist, who is very interested in coalition history, reblogged it here. This is where trouble began. I have many people blocked, so I don’t actually know who might have reposted this other places. But somewhere down the line, bankuei posted this post on Asian American issues. Most problematically, his second claim was that “Asian Americans now suffer lesser oppression than many other POC, and are held up as a ‘model minority’ as a tool to show why all other POC are terrible people, and often recruited to engage in perpetuating the oppression.”

The problem with this claim is that it makes sweeping generalizations about Asian Americans as a whole group, standardizing the experience without really engaging with the fact that Asian America and the Asian disapora is comprised of the most ethnically diverse population in the world and you also cannot conflate American experience with immigrant or migrant experience. Because of this fact, I responded here saying much the same exact thing. I said that other than #2, it was a good post. I agreed with everything else he had to say, but I did not agree that it was right for him to make such an unbelievably broad, generalized claim about Asian Americans as a whole. I was also troubled in general about the fact that bankuei was mobilizing the rhetoric of oppression olympics in a form of critique that does not engage with the actual complexities of Asian American experience in general. Bothered by this, I made a post about the problem about making blanket statements about Asian Americans.

I was not the only one who was troubled by bankuei’s second claim. cosmopolitan-fascist also was troubled by it and she made a post saying that she was not comfortable with some of the language. In her opening post, she explicitly says her issue is with the explicit 2nd boint bankuei makes. Unfortunately, she misunderstood bankuei’s point and misrepresented him by saying that “people” are “affirming the idea that asians have total privilege or arent oppressed.” However, she immediately apologized when bankuei asked for clarification.

This is where a non-Asian who has nothing to do with our issues or our fight or our struggle comes in and says this:

karnythia: I mean, I’m not shocked that weexist-weresist/of-praxis/cosmopolitan-fascist got the wrong end of the stick. Not shocked about colorblinding doing the same thing. But I am really tired of these displays & the insistence that there aren’t different levels of impact on POC communities from oppression. How do you try to police conversations where you get the facts wrong & insist that they be held in a way that suits you without ever once taking a step back to ask yourself what tactics you’re using & why they aren’t working out? Mostly rhetorical. But I wonder these things nonetheless.

Excuse me? Wrong end of the stick? What? Getting facts wrong? Using facts to suit you? Because she namedrops both cosmopolitan-fascist and myself, it is not clear who she is attacking here, but pretty much after karnythia posts this, the rest of her followers and group follow suit and a massive wankfest explodes. I don’t know exactly what has been said in general because I have too many of them blocked and can’t see who’s responded to what. orangeapplesauce has offered to help compile the links and information on that end so I can more accurately represent what’s occurred, so there may be a follow-up post to this. But what I do understand is that there have been a lot of accusations of cosmopolitan-fascist being antiblack because of what she said here.

It is interesting to note that the post I made about historical black systemic racism against Chinese during Yellow Peril has not received much attention at all in the midst of all this fervor over antiblackness, when what we have been discussing from the beginning is anti-Asianness and the ways in which Asian experience is standardized and distorted in ways that are disingenous and dangerous. To say all Asian American experience is the same without being clear about how you are talking about Asian Americans is to erase huge ethnic groups within Asian America that experience unbelievable amounts of racism, violence, and are targeted by INS officials, police, and their community alike. It erases the immigrant experience and diasporic experience because it is not at all interested in transnational modes of exchange that are so fucking important to Asian American identity. It makes invisible very real and very fraught issues which are constantly misrepresented and ignored.

It is for this reason that dagseoul wrote these posts on social justice race activists who do not engage with immigrant narratives. The following conversation with dagseoulwas focused on the issue of citizenship and representation, and dagseoul argues:

Well, let’s be honest. The problem is that to argue for a vertical hierarchy of oppression is to implement the oppressive white power structure that organizes poc into categories from who’s closer to white to who’s black. In this way, to be black is to be most oppressed simply as the result of being least white. If social justice tumblr users want to define themselves in contrast to whiteness, they should be held to their definitions and use of the white power structure.

In reaction to the sheer vitriol and the amount of bullshit coming from the SJ corner that started to say that our discussions about Asian American experience and history and our exchange of our feelings on Asian American issues were antiblack or “reeked of antiblackness” (which I don’t fucking understand, okay — we’re talking about Asian experiences to Asian people that have nothing to do with blackness; the only times blacks have even come into the picture was when I made my two big research-heavy posts with an unbelievable amount of citations and evidence) cosmopolitan-fascist wrote this post in response to proto-flake’s response to biyuti’s claims about Asians that just are not fucking true. (This unfortunate incident just goes to show how little Asians even know about our own experiences. That is how large and diverse the ethnic community is to the degree that even an Asian doesn’t know what it means for other Asians to be Asian in America.)

What proto-flake said is unbelievably important in contextualizing just one aspect of Asian American experience:

proto-flake: My experience and what I witnessed may not be the norm, but what is said above just isn’t true for where I grew up. Here in California pre-Vietnam, we already had a huge population of Filipinos who basically were imported for decades to join Mexicans, South Americans, and American Indians in the Ag fields, still, much how it is today. These groups of people were not differentiated or distinguished between by cops or community. They were all “dirty” they were all “wet backs” they were all “insects” they were all “alien”. I know this because my father’s parents worked those fields as did my father & his brothers. Post Vietnam Stockton got a big influx of populations from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.These peoples were not made to feel welcome at all. As I sit here and think about this it is very weird for me to recollect that my community came together in a horrible kind of way when it came to our South East Asian populations of immigrants. Everyone hated on them. Everyone. Even established Filipino peoples went out of their way to make sure that they were not lumped in with the “FOBs” or “gooks”, something they were typically labeled as. For many years these people weren’t seen as people. Cops use to routinely raid their neighborhoods, ripping out front yard gardens full of vegetables whose seeds they had brought from home. My second grade teacher made no qualms about calling the Southeast Asian kids insects and squatters and this was not an isolated occurrence nor was it just one person. Even my father, who is Filipino and Yaqui, to this day DESPISES anyone who looks Vietnamese to him because of his experience and his perceptions of Vietnamese people. We had a huge community of Vietnam Vets who felt this way and feel this way to this day. In my home town Southeast Asians were targeted by police, they were targeted by the community at large, especially by other minority groups. Shit, there was even a good span of time where Southeast Asian businesses were being set on fire and bombed. I could go on and on here. And I am absolutely positive that many of these people feared for their lives and this is why: When I was around them or in their neighborhoods I feared for mine. This was not because I had a bad interaction with anyone, this was not because I had ever seen them harm anyone, this was because of how my community interacted with them. They were “other” to ALL of us. They became the “parasites” leaching off the government and not giving anything in return, they became the “dirty, smelly” people who ruined everything. And these are things the rest of us who were not part of their communities came to agree upon. Shit, even in high school we had two main parking lots that came to be known, one as the “Senior Parking Lot” the other as the “Asian Parking Lot”, their was even an “Asian” side of the school! And no one ever ventured there. It was considered dangerous. And then there was this crazy motherfucker Vietnam vet Patrick Purdy who hated the Vietnamese so much he unloaded on a elementary school yard during recess in one of the schools that had a large number of Southeast Asian children and killed 5 children. I have to get ready to go to school but Mike just walked in a few minutes ago and I started telling him about this debate that is happening on here and he started sharing his experience and perspective (we grew up in the same area) and he brought up a SHIT TON more stuff that I failed to remember that I might want to expand upon later… Maybe it’s just dependent on where you live, I don’t know, but where I come from Southeast Asians not only did not and do not have privilege, they tend to be the most marginalized, segregated from the rest of the population at large, and despised. More so than any other racial group. Maybe that’s just in the Valley, but it is a big fucking valley and in one of the most “liberal” and “open-minded” states in the Union. I think that says a lot.

This is why you do not fucking standardize Asian American experience in an ahistorical context and deploy a rhetoric very fucking close to the rhetoric of internalized model minority discourse in order to make your claim. Because you do not know what it means for another Asian to be Asian in America, and unless you have done the research, unless you have seen and been through the kind of things undocumented non-English speaking working class migrants have been through, or lived through the Cold War or Vietnam War eras, or are Southeast Asian and lower income, then you do not understand the complexity of what it means to be Asian in America. And if you think for one fucking moment that you have any right to be a spokesperson for Asian America based on your Asianness, you are unbelievably deluded. Because Asian America cannot have a spokesperson when it is comprised of too many competing cultures and ethnicities and experiences. If you think you have any right to speak for Asian Americans without representing all of Asian American experience in all of its diversity and its complications, then you do not understand how you are erasing other people’s experiences and their struggles. And you have no right to also force Pacific Islanders such as local Hawaiian Asians and native Hawaiians to accept Asian American identity either, because such a move is imperialistic considering that the kingdom of Hawai’i is still a colony of the United States.

The fact that Asians are saying this shit is the most shameful thing about this entire situation in general because some of them actually are arrogant enough to believe they have the right to consolidate all of Asian American experience into one standardized model and speak for Asian Americans as a whole without respresenting complications at all because somehow they do not think it is necessary. Such a move reeks of Western imperialism and American exceptionalism because it does not care to engage with transnational and diasporic modes of exchange and experience, nor does it think to consider that the immigrant or undocumented experience is not an experience that can be compared with the experience of middle class/upper middle class Asian American citizens or even spoken about in the same breath. And if you think so, then you’re a first world American fuck who can’t see past your citizenship.

On a last note: to all you non-Asians coming into an Asian discussion and trying to dictate the terms of how we talk about our experience or how we view our people or histories or relations with one another or with our own identities, I have only one thing left to say to you.

Fuck every single one of you for daring to step into an Asian space where you do not belong.

In my excellent show of what it means to be a good stereotypical Asian, I only have to say 臭老外屌你老母！

POPPYSEED, YOU KNOW I REALLY REALLY RESPECT YOU BUT YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ THIS BEFORE CRITIQUING ANYTHING PEOPLE ARE SAYING.

THIS STARTED BY PEOPLE TELLING ASIANS THEY WERENT PEOPLE OF COLOR, AND NON-ASIANS JUMPING INTO A CONVERSATION THAT DID NOT FUCKING CONCERN THEM.

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

coldeyesthatburn:

deliciouskaek:

trubr0wn:

anthagio:

trubr0wn:

occupy-my-blog:

North Carolina: Then and Now

no.

these aren’t the same

and people still die because of the top one

i’m done with this “gay is the new black” shit.

I’m done with this “blacks had it worse, so the gays can just shut the fuck up and suck it up” shit. What you don’t seem to be getting is that last night, North Carolina amended its state constitution to ban gay marriage and the last time North Carolina amended its state constitution was to ban interracial marriage. The comparisons here are valid. The whole “gay is not the new black” is right. No one can legitimately compare the black struggle to the gay struggle, but that is not the point. The point here is that the people who opposed racial equality then are the same people opposing gay equality now.

“and people still die because of the top one…” Are you implying that people don’t die because of the gay struggle? Are you not aware of the dozens of CHILDREN committing suicide because they’re being bullied for being gay? What about Matthew Shepard, do you know who he is? Like, really?

How about instead of being a homophobic asshat, you understand that, as minorities, we should support one another, not get upset because of stupid sayings that do nothing but pull us further apart.

okay, first off. i’m gay. and a person of color. so you can shut the fuck up with your “homophobic” crying and check your privilege. second, you’re a racist ignorant sack of shit who clearly can’t read.

nobody here even MADE this about who “has it worse.” YOU DID. which says a LOT about the ‘point’ you’re trying to prove here.

gay black people exist. gay black people suffer from BOTH homophobia AND racism. when you say that being gay and being black are equivalent, you are erasing the existence of gay black people and their struggles. i know that kind of logic must be very, very difficult for you to comprehend since you didn’t get it the first time.

people are STILL OPPOSING RACIAL EQUALITY. TODAY. RIGHT NOW. HAVE YOU HEARD OF TRAYVON MARTIN? CECE MCDONALD? i’m sure you haven’t. RACISM IS NOT OVER. WE ARE NOT IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY. and no, the people opposing racial equality are not the ‘same’ people opposing gay rights. you are a perfect example of that, since you seem to be all about gay rights but have no problem shitting on people of color. thanks for that, by the way.

these issues need to BOTH be addressed but they are NOT the same thing. what you are trying to do is ERASE PEOPLE’S EXISTENCE AND EXPERIENCES.

i know who matthew shepard is. in fact, i MET HIS FUCKING MOTHER AND SHOOK HER DAMN HAND. you want to know something about matthew shepard’s mother?

the night i saw her speak, you know what she opened with? BEFORE she even spoke about her son and the plight of gay youth in america? she spoke about james byrd. i’m sure you have NO idea who he is, clearly. james byrd was a young black man who was LYNCHED the SAME year matthew was murdered. he was tied to the back of a car and dragged along a highway until there was nothing left of him.

the MOTHER of the young man you are trying to use as an excuse for your racism knew the difference between gay rights and civil rights. and you DO NOT.

so i think you should sit your ass down. right fucking now. you racist piece of shit.

in which trubr0wn drops a bit of knowledge on a random asshat

This is why I fucking love trubr0wn

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(via cosmopolitan-fascist)

For South Asian parents one of the biggest sources of pride is when their children are successful academically. Receiving the highest grades possible, doing extra work to expand knowledge and being ahead of the class are all examples of what many South Asian parents wish to see from their children. With this push to always try harder, many South Asian children grow up to become successful in their careers, striving for the best and trying to achieve more.  

Unfortunately, for many other South Asian children, these expectations placed on them by their parents cause an incredible amount of stress. Instead of thriving under the pressure to continually better oneself, quite a few South Asian children crack, experiencing numerous symptoms of depression, anxiety, as well as countless illnesses that keep them out of school while they recover. In addition, countless South Asian children as young as the age of 9 years of age begin to contemplate suicide, believing that if they do not achieve a set standard academically, their parents will not want them anymore.

When South Asian parents define their child in terms of how they perform academically, the children who do not meet their parents often unrealistic expectations begin to internalize the negative messages sent by their parents. They think they are not worthy, not lovable, not important and that they are inherently flawed.

This can be found in East Asian cultures as well.

(Source: cosmopolitan-fascist, via cosmopolitan-fascist)

cruelyouth:

ceepolk:

cruelyouth:

[Warning to white people reading this thread: DO NOT fucking warp these stories. Neither mine, nor other people’s. And these are awful, horrible stories we have, yeah, but let us express our feelings. You do it all the time.]

…

no to state regulation of families!

CLICK THIS LINK FOR LOTS OF RESOURCES ON WHY “MARRIAGE EQUALITY” IS THE WRONG GOAL

(re: people freakin about Obama)

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sexxxisbeautiful:

TW for transphobia. cissexism, sexism, discussion of rape and victim blaming, and do I even need to keep going because if you need this many trigger warnings for just one man’s words then you know he’s a BIG problem.

forgetpolitics:

1. Dan Savage hates trans…

feministhistorian:

1. What is your middle name?  Lee
2. What are you passionate about? Traveling & cultural exploration with like-minded friends, sex & body positivity, race & gender equality, veganism, language. 
3. Do you have any fears?  Being trapped in a unwanted situation due to economic limitations, losing a loved one, interacting with and being around strangers.
4. Silver or gold?  Gold
5. Top three places to visit.  Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea
6. How many siblings do you have?  1
7. Where are you from?  Oregon, USA
8. First career you wanted as a child. Veterinarian.
9. What’s your sign? Sometimes Gemini, mostly Taurus.
10. Future names of your children. I don’t want children now but I once liked the name Naiobi. 
11. Do you have any pets?  Yes. A very regal amber-eyed, gray-furred cat named Fenrir. 
12. What are you listening to right now? Strangers going about their lives.
13. Do you believe in fate/destiny?  Sometimes.
14. What are your career goals? To be paid to do something creative with my own terms. 
15. What is are your favorite colors?  Gray-greens and deep purples.
16. What is your favorite flower? Lilacs. 
17. What was the first concert/show you attended? I don’t want to say.
18. Something you are working on right now?  Paying off the small remainder of my debt and saving up some money so I can focus on what I really want to do. 
19. Have you ever had a near-death experience? Yes.
20. Are you a procrastinator or do you get things done early? Procrastinate on things for myself. Get things done early if others depend on it.
21. Left or right handed?  Left-handed.
22. TV Shows you watch regularly.  ANTM, Game of Thrones.
23. Where do you work? International adoption and child welfare agency. I’m conflicted about it.
24. Halloween costume idea for this year?  Nothing.
25. What is your relationship status? Partnered for life and happy. :)
26. Last movie you just watched. The Avengers.
27. Your best friend’s name. Jinglan, Mariseth, and Sam.
28. A song that’s been stuck in your head.  Animal Love I cover by Raven Zoe ft. Rebecca Brickley.
29. A book you want to read/have recently read.  My South Asian Sleeping Beauty, currently on a modern Taiwan literature buzz.

(Source: iwillbringhealthandhealing, via thesexuneducated)

lirillith:

Everybody knows about the TVTropes-trap.  Pixiv’s “people who bookmarked this also bookmarked” has a similar drown-you-in-tabs effect, and somehow I found myself drowning in tabs of gorgeous original fantasy-setting artwork. 

Which is a great problem to have, really.  These are both by 六七質.  And have some direct links to spring and fall.

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Joseph F. Healey, Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender (via humanformat)

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