December 2011
1 post
Update.
No, I haven’t abandoned this Tumblr — things have been pretty intense here, in a very bad way. There’s a lot of bureaucratic bullshit going on, on top of having to wrap up the fall semester and do a whole lot of grading.
I’ll be back soon — I just noticed there was a sudden burst of conversation on the Call For Bloggers I put out a few months back. I fully intend on...
November 2011
17 posts
Small update and considerations
Hi guys,
I haven’t been around lately because I’ve been overwhelmingly swamped working on conference paper proposals, designing syllabi, grading midterm papers, and reconsidering what I want to do with this Tumblr/my presence on Tumblr.
In the few months that I’ve been on Tumblr, I’ve had a lot of great conversations and met a lot of fantastic people. I’ve learned...
akagoldfish:
Tonight at UC Berkeley, students are protesting economic exploitation and
Tonight at Penn State, students are protesting the belated dismissal of a man who engaged in a conspiracy to protect and enable a sexual predator.
I take back every fucking wise crack I’ve ever made about Berkeley. From now on, Penn State will be my institution of choice when it comes to lampooning the...
Asian Kids are the Most Bullied
generasian:
When I was in elementary school, I had a very diverse class setting but Asians were still the minority. While I consider my elementary school experience as a happy and great one, there were moments of bullying that I will never forget. My first instance I remember was when non-Asian students would ask me how to pronounce my last name: Tsui. I would phonetically say it slowly: “TSOY,...
"it was just a joke"
sonofapritch:
is one of the most brutally oppressive, ignorant things people still get away with saying.
I never let people get away with that.
Anonymous asked: lol look at the original poster's addendum to the "ching chong" cat post after all the reblogs. exertions of privilege and white supremacy always make my wednesday evenings feel special!
TW: Rape Culture & Black Women in American History
karnythia:
Want to know why more rapes of enslaved black women weren’t reported or recorded? Because it was not a crime. Even when slavery was over, it still wasn’t a crime to rape us. Hell even it went on the books as a crime, how long do you think it took for anyone to prosecute it? How interested in prosecution was that society that had made a point of creating archetypes like Mammy &...
thesis work
strugglingtobeheard:
ancestryinprogress:
i am a latin american studies/politics dual major (specializing in the politics/intersections of afro-latin@ and queer identities) trying to deconstruct the oppression of sexual minorities (specifically: lesbians, queer people, and trans* people) as it is intimately linked to the oppression of women and people of color in latin america, especially in...
Clothing Chains and Their Racist/Sexist Wardrobe... →
worsethanqueer:
April 2002: Abercrombie & Fitch offends with Asian T-shirt that bears the slogan “Wong brothers Laundry Service: Two Wongs Make it White.” The T-shirts featured Asian men with caricatured faces, slanted eyes and rice-paddy hats. The company was surprised by the controversy — “We personally thought Asians would love this T-shirt,” said Hampton Carney, with Paul Wilmot...
I'm back, Tumblr! What did I miss?
Normal programming to resume sometime tonight!
Tumblr break extension. :( Too much work this...
Tumblr break
This week is not a good week for Tumblring, unfortunately. My students are all banging on my office door because they have their second midterm papers due next week. And I have a conference to attend on Saturday. So, I will be taking a Tumblr break until Sunday or Monday!
See you all then!
October 2011
441 posts
4 tags
Asian Youth Protest Police Brutality
thefuckingloudestazns:
Saturday, October 22, 2011 – Asian youth of different nationalities, who are associated with the Fuckin’ Loudest Asians! blog, joined the demonstration in New York City against police brutality, repression, and the criminalization of a generation. We marched from Manhattan’s Union Square to the Jacob Riis Houses in the Lower East Side. The protest was the 16th annual...
Debunking History Myths #10
uncdan:
European Imperialism was intrinsically greedy and detrimental.
Not entirely true.
This isn’t me defending imperialism or colonialism. But this is me pointing out that not all imperial ambitions were fueled by land greed and subjugation.
The Spanish and Portuguese characterised their large early empires by looting. They didn’t truly build an empire, they just conquered and pillaged...
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This has nothing to do with the contents of this...
small girl. big city. cliches abound.: darkjez:... →
strugglingtobeheard:
colorblinding:
james-bliss:
colorblinding:
weexist-weresist:
darkjez:
james-bliss:
I mean, I’ve read a lot about subjectivity and a lot about racialization, but I’ve never seen the phrase ‘subjectivity of racialization’…
I googled it and the only place it appears in the entire internet is a re-blog of the post where it’s used.
Which is to say……
are you all...
small girl. big city. cliches abound.: darkjez:... →
james-bliss:
colorblinding:
weexist-weresist:
darkjez:
james-bliss:
I mean, I’ve read a lot about subjectivity and a lot about racialization, but I’ve never seen the phrase ‘subjectivity of racialization’…
I googled it and the only place it appears in the entire internet is a re-blog of the post where it’s used.
Which is to say……
are you all for real
o-m-g
subjectivity of...
@darkjez
weexist-weresist:
i cant reblog your post/colorblinding’s bc of my internet being shitty but i actually agree with what you said and what she said (she pointed out some problematics in what i said in response, which i fully own up to). i do not mean to detach the production of blackness from the existence and experience of ‘black-black’ bodies and that was not at all my original point so i...
Anonymous asked: How was your Hallowe'en? What kind of music have you been listening to lately? What's something new that's really got your attention right now?
small girl. big city. cliches abound.: darkjez:... →
weexist-weresist:
darkjez:
james-bliss:
I mean, I’ve read a lot about subjectivity and a lot about racialization, but I’ve never seen the phrase ‘subjectivity of racialization’…
I googled it and the only place it appears in the entire internet is a re-blog of the post where it’s used.
Which is to say……
are you all for real
o-m-g
subjectivity of racialization is not an academic theory...
Reblog if you're bored and want randoms anons.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
theafrosistuh:
nananialler:
Nothx to anons, but I will take some asks, pleaseeeeeeee. I literally worked from 8pm last night to like 4-5pm today and I am still awake i don’t even
I’ll take some asks as well. Anon or logged-in!
weexist-weresist:
urbanuncertainty replied to your post: So I’m *genuinely* not understanding you here: So there are certain cases where desis are black because a dominant group says they are black and in such a way evoke blackness? so hypothetically, in the united states, where whites (here dominant) might conflate all latin@ heritage with mexicanness, can all latin@s be considered mexican? Is...
I love how you keep assuming that we're all just a...
darkjez:
You’re just not understanding the fact that our diunital worldview allows us to see that Blackness is the actual state of our being, while at the same time it can be a “systemic dynamic.” What we’re trying to point out, & what you just refuse to jive with, is the fact that the systemic dynamic of Blackness could not exist without the BLACK-Black (trololol) being.
If you’re reading...
Trigger Away
dagseoul:
colorblinding:
dagseoul:
I’m beginning to believe that many tumblr blogs exist simply to seek out triggers to be triggered and to perform being-triggered in a public space.
I really don’t need to be told I should sympathize with somebody because I cannot understand their experience(s).
On tumblr, none of the excesses in triggering are unique, authentic experience(s). They are but...
Anonymous asked: i'm wondering if you actually purchased that racist take-out box costume? because even if your intent was to turn it into a statement about cultural appropriation and racism, aren't you still supporting the (racist) company who produced it?
color·blinding: south asians and blackness →
blackamazon:
I’m black.
I’m black and South east Asian, East Asian, Native and White.
I am all those things at one time.
And people think I am ashamed of my self when I say that.
I will
NEVER
EVER
meet parts of my family
because I’m black.
When I consider racial histories that form my family they are Black-Asian within the context of white colonialism.
I have cultural markers that...
color·blinding: south asians and blackness →
deluxvivens:
colorblinding:
deluxvivens:
colorblinding:
karnythia:
deluxvivens:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
darkjez:
weexist-weresist:
There have been a lot of posts about how South Asians appropriate black culture and the word nigger. This is not a blanket defense of desis saying ‘my nigga!’ but an attempt to remind us that racial histories are not discrete.
There is a link between...
Trigger Away
dagseoul:
I’m beginning to believe that many tumblr blogs exist simply to seek out triggers to be triggered and to perform being-triggered in a public space.
I really don’t need to be told I should sympathize with somebody because I cannot understand their experience(s).
On tumblr, none of the excesses in triggering are unique, authentic experience(s). They are but rehearsed performances of...
Here's the thing about blackness →
urbanuncertainty:
blackness is not oppression.
just because you are oppressed, doesn’t mean you get to claim blackness.
gay is not the new black
woman is not the nigger of the world
just because you grew up around black people doesn’t allow you to claim blackness
just because you have that one black friend doesn’t mean you get to claim blackness
black is new black, black is the old black,...
color·blinding: south asians and blackness →
deluxvivens:
colorblinding:
karnythia:
deluxvivens:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
darkjez:
weexist-weresist:
There have been a lot of posts about how South Asians appropriate black culture and the word nigger. This is not a blanket defense of desis saying ‘my nigga!’ but an attempt to remind us that racial histories are not discrete.
There is a link between desis and the word…
I’m way...
color·blinding: south asians and blackness →
karnythia:
deluxvivens:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
darkjez:
weexist-weresist:
There have been a lot of posts about how South Asians appropriate black culture and the word nigger. This is not a blanket defense of desis saying ‘my nigga!’ but an attempt to remind us that racial histories are not discrete.
There is a link between desis and the word…
I’m way too exhausted to really break this...
weexist-weresist:
The word n*gger derives from the word niger means DARK skin people. You can state as many times you like that the word can be used against other ethnic groups but at the end of the day the word will always be used against BLACK people! You don’t have to read any sorts of literature or watch any documentaries to understand that. Don’t try to compare the oppression...
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uncdan asked you:What do YOU think about that debate? It’s true that other people can’t be called kike, wops, spics or pakis, but it doesn’t stop a lot of other downtrodden ethnicities identifying with the racial struggle that black people do. One way or another, black struggle is the face of fighting against racism worldwide. When people think of racism they think of that...
darkjez:
color·blinding: south asians and blackness
weexist-weresist:
There have been a lot of posts about how South Asians appropriate black culture and the word nigger. This is not a blanket defense of desis saying ‘my nigga!’ but an attempt to remind us that racial histories are not discrete.
There is a link between desis and the word…
I’m way too exhausted to really break...
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2 tags
weexist-weresist:
I don’t give a flying fu*k about the link between South Asians and Black people. When people think of the n word they think of black people. In no shape or form is it okay to culturally appropriate any culture and South Asians should really understand that the most the fact that you created that idiotic post says a lot about your lack of understanding. Do yourself a...
2 tags
south asians and blackness
weexist-weresist:
There have been a lot of posts about how South Asians appropriate black culture and the word nigger. This is not a blanket defense of desis saying ‘my nigga!’ but an attempt to remind us that racial histories are not discrete.
There is a link between desis and the word nigger, and contexts in which I think its okay for South Asians to use that word.
1- During colonialism, the...
Halloween weekend. Will resume Tumbling in the...
convenience writing is so awful. all the young...
Oh my god your posts today on Naruto are killing me.
CALL FOR BLOGGERS: Rethinking "Race" in Yellow and... →
Reposting link for higher visibility. (I kind of accidentally and overenthusiastically blogged over last night’s reblog.)
xoericxo asked: BUT HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT *MY* SEXY COSTUME
Anonymous asked: How do you feel about all the "sexy" costumes for Halloween?
WHY CAN'T ALL THE PEOPLE
hidden-midden:
nom-chompsky:
uhuh-she-said:
squeetothegee:
haguenite:
dr-wtfox:
14kgoldnyc:
nerdling:
ladonnapietra:
franticdecadence:
bassoonoramic:
imaslytherinbitch:
slytherin-in-the-tardis:
the-map-never-lies:
just write in fucking English so we can all understand you! ALL.
E baš neću. Ko te šiša.
Bahaha, Marija je alergicna na srpski? Ccc.
Oui, parce que tous...