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magicmooshka · 11 months
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I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023
I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.
id in alt
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artfilmfan · 7 months
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Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)
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Black history
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selfieignite · 1 year
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Representation matters. #StarringJohnCho posters by William Yu started in 2016. This began a discussion about Asian Americans in leading roles in Hollywood, which inspired others to create their own stories and will continue to inspire future generations.
Jon M. Chu: #StarringJohnCho Movement Pushed Me To Make 'Crazy Rich Asians'
‘Everything Everywhere’ Star Ke Huy Quan on How ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Gave Him FOMO and Inspired His Return to Movies
Oscar Wins By Film: ‘EEAAO’ Leads With 7 Statues (11 Oscar nominations)
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letter as poetry (unedited), drunkaloneagain (circa 2017)
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mysteriouspercentage · 11 months
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happy aapi heritage month, loving and friendly reminders
stop erasing pacific islanders or i'll rip out ur spine
asians outnumber pacific islanders by millions and more often than not this month gives CRUMBS to pacific islanders and it's honestly, transparently anti-indigenous at this point.
pacific islanders are melanesian, micronesian, and polynesian. these identities are not homogenous or interchangeable, but are deeply historically connected.
filipinos are not pacific islander and we are not discussing this further
(i am not pacific islander so if anyone from that community wants to add more friendly reminders onto this post, pls do 💛)
east asians are not the only asians
despite being the face of "asian-ness" in the us, there are actually more countries in asia than south korea, north korea, japan, and china.
celebrate southeast asians !
celebrate south asians !
celebrate west asians !
celebrate central asians !
celebrate north asians !
there is so so much diversity in the pacific islander and asian experiences worldwide, and it's well past time we celebrate all of the facets of our identities
celebrate indigenous asians !
celebrate asians who aren't mixed with white !
celebrate dark-skinned asians !
end the diaspora wars !
we need to stand together in community as we face down the capitalist, imperialist, white supremacist machine. uplift each other, and hold each other accountable, always
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kemetic-dreams · 1 year
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beemovieerotica · 4 months
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sometimes i see takes on here that i definitely believed in my early 20s when i was at a much worse time in my life with respect to my identity and everything...like API-americans are on here fully saying "i don't like how all these white people are trying to learn japanese / korean / tagalog :\ ...it feels fetishistic" and idk how to tell people that learning a language is not. fetishistic. learning a language is not demeaning anyone or anything. learning someone else's language is one of the most difficult things you can do with your free time and it provides an insight into culture and history that you oftentimes cannot get elsewhere, and it's the absolute baseline for respectful communication when visiting some countries...
but i get where this is coming from because when you're part of the diaspora, and your parents americanized you, and maybe they didn't even teach you their language (me) you get prickly about it. you start to resent people who don't look like you who are speaking the language you SHOULD have learned, better than you. but you have to get over it. this isn't about them, this is about your own family. you've got to reflect and swallow your pride and move the fuck on, because ragging on the weeaboo in your class isn't going to fix you.
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gothgleek · 1 year
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softsoundingsea · 1 month
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Diego Javier Luis is assistant professor of history at Tufts University in Massachusetts. He is the author of The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History (forthcoming, 2024).
Edited by Sam Haselby.
Cape Sebastian in Oregon perches above two forested declivities along a rocky patch of the state’s southern coast. Travel there today, and you are likely to miss a roadside marker that reads:
Spanish navigators were the first to explore the North American Pacific Coast. Beginning fifty years after Columbus discovered the Western continents, Sebastian Vizciano [sic] saw this cape in 1603 and named it after the patron saint of the day of his discovery. Other navigators, Spanish, British, and American, followed a century and a half later.
Standing before this sign, I winced rather predictably as I read ‘discovery’. But simmering beneath my displeasure with this word was a deeper conviction that Sebastián Vizcaíno’s voyage was, indeed, significant, though not in the ways that the sign suggests. Thousands of miles to the east, in Seville, the old centre of the Spanish Empire, I had stumbled upon Vizcaíno’s voyage in the dusty volumes of treasury records for the port of Acapulco, Mexico. Buried in line after line of winding, Baroque script were curious notations – ‘chino’ and ‘japón’ – next to the names of seven sailors that Vizcaíno had recruited for his voyage up the North American coast. To the tune of carriages rumbling through Seville’s cobbled streets and the crinkle of centuries-old pages turning, I read the names again and again:
Antón Tomás Antonio Bengala Francisco Miguel Cristóbal Catoya Agustín Longalo Lucas Cate Agustín Sao
Seven Asian sailors – entombed by an archive and forgotten by human memory – had sailed with Vizcaíno to what is now Oregon. Where in the chronology of Asian American history could these sailors fit? Flip to the beginning of most books on Asian America, and you will find no content earlier than the 19th century. You will be in the world of the Gold Rush, the transcontinental railroad, indenture, and the San Francisco and Los Angeles Chinatowns.
These seven names transport us to a different world, a different timeline, a different Asian America. These sailors’ presence off the coast of Oregon predated not just the entire Asian American canon but also the founding of the United States and even of the Thirteen Colonies. The histories of the first Asians in the Americas do not take place in the nations born from the fires of British colonialism but, rather, they guide us to a region rarely considered relevant to Asian American history: Latin America.
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magicmooshka · 2 years
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monolith: a comic for aapi heritage month 2022
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