Cook 4 Soul

I post my artwork and anything that comes across my mind.

[fujikomeanie]

Ryoichi Ikegami, Mai the Psychic Girl

[cook4soul]

It has been awhile. Life is a heavy snowfall; constantly moving through it, is the main goal.

[cook4soul]

During my time in Texas.

[squiddlyn]

DREAM HUNTER Rem Minami Azabu Maho Club cd insert images

[80sanime]

[cook4soul]

A nice contrasting black and white photo I took during the 2019 Macy’s Fireworks event in NYC. 

[softwaring]

my backyards so cooool 🦌

[afrosabi]

My dad, a 73 year old black man, baked DOG COOKIES and came over this morning to drop them off for my pups. This negro spending his retirement baking DOG COOKIES

[cook4soul]

How long as I been on Tumblr, over a year??? A lot has happen to me and I can finally has a job. I’m working on some photographs to make my first photobook.

[cook4soul]

Sleepless in Chinatown.

[animarchive]

Original illustrations by Mutsumi Inomata / 1985, 1986 (Tsuki no Koe, Hoshi no Yume artbook)

[histrionic-hero]

[amer-ainu]

It’s easy to get down about what the Japanese government is either doing or failing to do for Ainu people. What they oughta do and what they do will never align. It will always be for the benefit of public spectacle.

But outside the prying eyes of curious strangers Ainu people live Ainu lives every day, regardless of who notices. In a chise, or an apartment, in regalia or blue jeans, in Ainu Moshir or Repun Moshir, the way we move through the world and the impressions we leave behind us are inherently and inalienably Ainu, and every day we live an Ainu life on our own terms.

[pastelallsorts]

Would you need a petticoat in space…?

[blackqueerblog]

Clean water, clean air, access to nutritious food, etc; access based on zip code. A well known case of environmental racism is the Flint water crisis. Less effort goes into neighborhoods for poc and tending to them

[cartoonpolitics]

(cartoon by Jen Sorenson)

[lkeke35]

The co-opting of Black culture in the South Asian disapora, hip hop and the n-word

In the third of his articles discussing anti-Blackness in South Asian communities, Dhruva Balram discusses how South Asian people often gravitate towards Black culture and music, and how use of the…

This is possibly in response to a lack of a unified diaspora in Asian culture. Black Americans (especially those descended from slavery) had no other options than to unify, but those from Asian countries, usually don’t, or at best, form small enclaves of like cultured people. There seems to be no Pan-Asian diaspora in the US, and many young Asian Americans tend to gravitate to Black culture.

[solacekames]

I agree. I’m not South Asian, but this is an Asian-American issue that cuts across the compass. Since there is no accessible Pan-Asian diaspora identity (yet), a lot of Asian non-Black kids are faced with this kind of choice:

1. Orient toward white youth culture, find a peer group, but become a victim of racism.

2. Orient toward African-American youth culture, find a peer group, but perpetuate anti-Black racism.  

And the first choice usually ends up perpetuating racism as well, since white youth culture appropriates Black youth culture heavily.

As an older Asian-American looking back, I can see this double bind so clearly, but it’s impossible to expect 13-year-olds to understand it and therefore escape it. We (as in older Asian-Americans) have to find a better way to show them.