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• Chinese, 21+ • • favorite posts are tagged as "gold post" • • if I'm talking about something in the tags that doesn't seem to be in the post it's probably only tangental • • posts reblogged after 2021 are not organized with tags unless they're favorite posts • • profile picture is Jun Mihara •

[afoolnottoloveu]

hello! just a lil smth, please don’t scroll!

tw // anti-asian violence

there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday

all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):

- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)

- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)

- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)

- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained

+ stop asian hate gofundme

+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)

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if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]

[tsunderemployee]

a couple on “Love Island: Tumblr” has been kicked off the island after refusing to take “the pjackk challenge”

[mossworm]

even the onion has us pegged, are we really that obvious

[deejwalker]

MAR

Hi everyone, I'm a Black trans schizoaffective person who's been in an extremely toxic housing situation for about 7 years. I'm 24. I didn't have aid and moral support when I was young. Things with my housemate, my adoptive father have gone from bad to negligent to dangerous and I am finally trying to leave for my safety.

I need funds for a new place and to sustain myself while still here - I'm disabled and can't work, and I can't eat the food in the house. All money I have goes towards my own nutrition and i am trying to raise $2,000 in the next week to get started on leaving. Anything helps.

Cash and pay are both agenderdread

Dm for z_lle or v_nmo

60/2000

[deejwalker]

Hey guys I've been putting off the safe clothes and shoes request. This is that request. I need help with laundry but so much is tied up with transport here. I have one fitting pair of shoes and plan to go fight for something yk?

I'm fed enough, I have an inhaler. I need safe clothes to wear and boots of any variety.

Can anyone help? I no longer fit 70 percent of my pants and clothes. I need masks for my respiratory issues.

Setting a goal of 100 here in this addition. I won't reblog this much. Just hoping on a kind understanding soul

0/100

[makingqueerhistory]

Wu Zao | Harper-Hugo Darling

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An extraordinarily skilled poet, musician, and playwright, Wu Zao occupies a liminal yet luminous place in the history of Chinese literature—and increasingly, in the evolving narrative of China’s LGBTQ+ cultural heritage. Born at the turn of the 19th century, Wu Zao emerged as a singular voice in a literary canon typically dominated by men, and carved a space for herself within intellectual and artistic traditions that rarely welcomed women, let alone those who dared to defy gender and sexual norms. While many of the particular details surrounding her existence remain uncertain, Wu Zao’s surviving writings subtly but powerfully permeate with erotic ambiguity and convey the deep emotional bonds she forged with other women throughout her lifetime. Through careful translation and scholarly interpretation, Wu Zao has emerged in more recent years as a figure who, with quiet defiance, charted her own path on the margins of Qing Dynasty society to challenge socio-cultural constraints placed on gender and sexuality. Today, Wu Zao’s creative legacy not only enriches the canon of classical Chinese literature but also expands the landscape of Chinese queer history, offering a rare glimpse into the complexities of queer desire and expression from a time and place where such notions were seldom recorded.

[forevergulag-deactivated2026013]

yeah im a socialist i just disavow every example of socialism in the world and dont support any current struggle for it

[dre759]

I have no idea where I found this image originally but this post just reminded me of it lol

[theculturedmarxist]

The term they like to use is "socialism from below," which so far as I've seen consists of

-endless meetings where little happens

-discussing things that have no operational relevance to the group

-handing out flyers to attract people to your meetings where nothing happens

-marching in protests where you accomplish nothing and then go home

-bitching about tankies

Unlike awful, authoritarian socialism, which has never accomplished anything.

[dyke-okapi]

Heard an interview on NPR of a 'small mother-daughter hair accessories company, working from the dining room table at home...' thats business will be affected by the tariffs because 'we manufacture in China!'!!! And if one good thing comes of these horrible stupid tariffs I hope it stops all these American 'small business owners 🥺' from obfuscating their participation in imperial exploration. And I hope everyone finally processes that all the fanart acrylic keychains and plushies of niche microcelebrities ocs that are just 'supporting small artists!!' are manufactured in the same way everything else is thats consumed by this ugly country is.

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

I think people often fail to understand that all production within the core--of any kind and for any purpose--is only able to exist as it does because such endeavors are the beneficiaries of systems of exploitation and unequal exchange.

For example: I am an independent craftsman in the US. I have no employees and I make everything I sell by hand, 'by myself.' But without Mexican workers raising cattle and tanning their hides, I would have no leather to work with. Without Chinese workers manufacturing the hardware and without the miners who mined the iron, nickel, copper, zinc, etc, I would have no rivets or dee rings or square snaps. I do not steal the surplus value of those under my employ because I have no one under my employ, and yet without the exploitation of hundreds or thousands of people, I can produce nothing at all. And this is true whether I am producing for the purposes of making money or for the joy of creating or for any other reason.

Nothing can be produced here without plunder.

[fourohfourlifenotfound]

Getting whiplash from parts 1 and 2 of this and I want to be clear that they're talking about different things

Dropshipping businesses (buy goods, sell with no modification at a higher price), artists who have clothing or goods manufactured with their design printed on it (like an artist using a t shirt printing company to sell shirts with their art on it, Redbubble is broad example), and crafters who rely on purchased supplies and tools (previous commenter) are three different categories with varying levels of reliance on foreign manufacturing in their processes. ALL OF THEM will see price hikes from tariffs. I can see hating on dropshippers, but you need to understand and be sympathetic to the fact that the other two are artists who are legitimately trying to make a business selling goods created from their skills.

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

No, I am also a fucking bastard who relies on exploitation just as much as a drop shipper or redbubble-type digi artist. The fact that I put my own labor into the physical materials to turn it into an end product does not transmute the end product into being something that was produced without exploitation. The point is that there literally isn't a way for citizens of the core to personally, individually absolve ourselves of the crimes of empire.

You spin your own yarn from fibers you gathered yourself? Okay, where do the crochet needles come from? You whittled your own needles? Where is the knife from? You forged your own goddamn whittling knife? Where's the steel from? Where's the hammer from? Wheres the sharpening stone from?

You write or draw? Where's the cobalt and lithium from your computer from? Okay, you only do it on paper, where's the paper from? Where's the wood, graphite, glue, and paint from the pencil from? You need food to fuel your body, where's that from? Where is the chair you sit on from?

You can't bootstraps your way out of being a beneficiary of imperialism. It's not a matter of personal ethics and I don't even think it's a personal indictment. It is plain fact: on a global scale, even the most downtrodden working people in the core are labor aristocrats. If youre a Yank like me, being against the exploitation of the third world is being against our own immediate interests. It means our lives get materially worse. If the downfall of imperialism means I can't afford to make my leather goods anymore, y'know, I think that's a hit I'm willing to take.

[deepseametro]

WOKE PHARRELL: it might seem neurodivergent what im about to say

[dragon-png]

american maid cafe review

[sourcreammachine]

[feluka]

if you ever used the trolley problem to describe the genocide the US is funding as a 'lesser evil' you're not allowed to be angry when someone implies the economic collapse of the US would be worth it if it forces the US to loosen its chokehold on other regions. you can't suddenly start finding the trolley metaphor disgusting only when you find yourself on the other train track. either you've always been against it or you shut the fuck up.

[fellahimedia]

Also alot of people are showing themselves to be apologetic for US imperialism. Alot of people are "anti imperialist" to an extent that they are against US exported atrocities but dont want their lives to change. the standards of living in America will decrease if America's access to the global souths resources ends up being cut off. that's going to have to happen

[elbiotipo]

It seems that your cheap phones are not a god given right but actually a luxury sustained by imperialist inequality after all. Mirá vos.

[shatteredzydrateteacup]

[thedoubteriswise]

In the interest of being angry about the right things, it's worth noting that the article in the screenshot explicitly states that this has less to do with the overall cost of labor in China and more to do with the supply chain and the fact that the US doesn't have an existing labor force that is qualified to do the work of building an iPhone, which is a task that requires specialized skills

[velvetys]

Why are we not jumping and popping these people

[jellogram]

The bimbo feminism girls who love Legally Blonde really missed like the whole point of the movie. The point is that she's not a brainless bimbo. She saves the day with her knowledge of haircare, sure, but she got in the room by going to law school. You cannot reduce that movie down to "Girl knowledge saves the day!" because the perm wouldn't have mattered if she hadn't spent the entire rest of the movie working her ass off in an unrelated field. The feminist angle is that she can have girly interests and also be smart, not that having girly interests is feminist in itself

[jellogram]

I think it's also worth adding that the main reason Elle is so effective is because she's sweet to everyone and finds ways to connect with people. She's not sitting around judging other women for knowing less about beauty than she does. So if you're making tiktoks about being That Girl or snarking at other girls, you did NOT learn your lesson from Elle Woods.

[ahedderick]

Oh, we really can't be keeping THAT gem in the tags.

[sallytwo]

like the return of the r slur and horrible fatphobia and gay jokes and the misogyny oh my fucking god can we talk about the misogyny. we have culturally regressed to the eary 2010s but when you try to call people out they’re liek ohhh it’s just a joke 😂. i’m sorry but i don’t want to hear jokes about pedophilia or about rape or about racism that is not funny and it never will be. everything is ironic and if you get offended it’s cuz you’re a crazy femnazi who cares too much. because it’s apparently uncool to take anything serious or do anything with actual sincerity anymore

[piendish]

what are your piendnouns

penis sex balls

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

Celebrating AAPI Feminism on International Women’s Day 2016

In celebration of today’s International Women’s Day, I’m posting some excerpts from Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathing Fire.

An Asian American feminist movement is vital for the larger project of uncovering the social structure, with its built-in injustices and inequities, that affect us all. In today’s global economy, in which nothing is certain for anyone save the most elite of the elite, this is a project that vitally concerns the majority.

…Asian American women are already making their movement happen. A different sort of Dragon Lady is emerging — not a cold-blooded reptile, but a creature who breathes fire

[stufflikethathere]

my favorite coworker told me the scenario she thinks of to fall asleep is she stumbles upon a baby sheep and has to raise it and it grows up and she has to shear it and she says she envisions shearing it so carefully that she always falls asleep at that part

[oysters-aint-for-me]