Carina Michele Do

Traveling girl with Stockholm as my home base and writing as my passion IG: do_meiqiu Twitter: domeiqiu

[thingsthatmakeyouacey]

Don’t watch the Marsha P. Johnson documentary on Netflix

From Reina Gossett’s Instagram:

reinaxgossett: #deepshare #realtruth this week while I’m borrowing money to pay rent, david france is releasing his multimillion dollar netflix deal on marsha p johnson. i’m still lost in the music trying to #pay_it_no_mind and reeling on how this movie came to be and make so much $ off of our lives and ideas. david got inspired to make this film from a grant application video that sasha & I made and sent to Kalamazoo/Arcus Foundation social justice center while he was visiting. He told the people who worked there -i shit you not- that he should be the one to do this film, got a grant from Sundance/Arcus using my language and research about STAR, got Vimeo to remove my video of Sylvia’s critical “y'all better quiet down” speech, ripped off decades of my archival research that i experienced so much violence to get, had his staff call Sasha up at work to get our contacts then hired my and Sasha’s *ADVISOR* to our Marsha film Kimberly Reed to be his producer. And that’s just the shit I have the spoons to name. TRUST🥄THERE'S🥄SO🥄MUCH 🥄MORE🥄. This kind of extraction/excavation of black life, disabled life, poor life, trans life is so old and so deeply connected to the violence Marsha had to deal with throughout her life. So I feel so much rage and grief over all of this & STAR must have some serious level plan on moving through many—and clearly by any means necessary—to get the message out… So tonight I’m channeling high priestess energy to show me the honey throne cuz this storm queen is 😖😫😱

Donate to the fund for Reina’s film Happy Birthday, Marsha! 

[domeiqiu]

Mixing colors (på/i Stockholm, Sweden)

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Durarara; “don’t depend too much on anyone in this world. Because even your shadow leaves you when you’re in darkness” (på/i Stockholm, Sweden)

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👩🏻‍🎨 draw something (på/i Stockholm, Sweden)

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@andotherstories #storiesla #andotherstories (på/i Malmö, Sweden)

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@andotherstories #storiesla #malmö (på/i Malmö, Sweden)

[domeiqiu]

On this day a year ago and weeks before and after I went thru something hard and I tried to stay strong for it. But everything just boiled over and I felt so useless. I know that if I didn't have my closest support with me everything would have been so much harder. 2016 was a hard year for me in many ways, but it was also a year I learned a lot and became stronger. Today it's women's day, but everyday is a women's day because of the amount of shit we have to go thru. From now on this day will be a reminder for me to go forward and to keep fighting. To know that it's okay to be vulnerable and I don't need to always act strong. It's a strength to be able to be vulnerable. Everyday I learn to love myself more and to understand how great of a woman I am. #womensday #internationalwomensday (på/i Stockholm, Sweden)

[domeiqiu]

Questions: Have you ever thought about how the colonization have effected our brains? How in our dating life you question when someone wants to date you really wants to date you or the idea of you. How they in reality are fetishizing you. How they are so in to what they think are your culture and surround themselves with your culture. Talks about your culture but never turn and talk about their own. How they "appreciates" your culture. Every time someone mentions something about me being Asian my whole body shivers and I question what they really want. Not that I'm not proud of who I am but because is that the thing they see in me? Like I'm not even my own person with my own personality and thoughts. I try to question myself from time to time. What choices I tend to make, and if that really are what I want or if it is this fucking system and life I've been taught. Feels like all of our brains are colonized in some levels, some just more than others. So when someone checks you try to listen instead of being offended. And no I'm not your fetish! #notyourfetish #colonizedminds (på/i Stockholm, Sweden)

[domeiqiu]

Jag vill skriva Jag vill skriva Skriva Skriva Men bokstäverna räcker inte till Orden räcker inte till Meningarna räcker inte till Ingenting räcker till för att säga hur mycket jag älskar dig Ingenting räcker till för att förstå hur mycket du har gjort för mig Hur mycket du har gjort för oss Våra språk räcker inte till Våra minnen räcker inte till Vi delar på så mycket ändå finns det en gräns som skaver En gräns som jag aldrig kommer kunna förstå En gräns som du inte kommer förstå Vi är samma Du är allt och så mycket mer Men mitt språk är inte samma som ditt Vi pratar med varandra Vi delar på så mycket Ändå står vi där med missförstånd så många gånger Med ord som inte räcker till Med meningar som inte går att förklara Med ett blandat språk från olika världar Min värld är din och din är min Ändå är det världar du och jag bär på som vi inte kan förstå Det finns så mycket jag vill veta Så mycket som du har att berätta Men orden räcker inte till Meningarna räcker inte till Så vi står där och hoppas Hoppas på att alla minnen Alla delar Ska bilda Bilda någonting som bara är vårt Någonting som vi förstår men ingen annan (på/i Stockholm, Sweden)

[domeiqiu]

One of the hardest things to do is to say goodbye So you hold on, hold on to the smallest thing in the hopes for everything to go back to how it was. But that’s impossible You can’t go back, no matter how much you hold on So you have to feel it Feel all the pain that comes with it A lot of times you get thru it You survive another day

But there are people who have a pain that is unbearable A pain that keeps coming back No matter how much you try It just comes back You can’t remove it You’re trying and trying But the pain never stops You’re living each day trying to survive Some days it feels better But a lot of days you suffer a lot Reading news, hearing people talk, seeing things All of that makes the pain even worse And what supposed to be your body is not even yours You don’t even get the chance to decide over your own body All these judgments All these control In the end the pain becomes too strong and the world failed to protect you The world failed so many times

Everyday people are suffering Suffering from a pain so strong that they don’t really know what to do In the end some of them choose to say goodbye, goodbye to a world that failed them because the suffering becomes more painful than the battle

In this world of battle don’t forget the people surrounding you The pain is almost unbearable to fight alone

Everyday I’m asking myself what can I do? How do I fight? I’m trying And trying how many punches can you take before you collapse But I know, I just have to keep fighting Keep supporting Keep trying Keep being Keep living And keep loving (på/i Malmö, Sweden)

[jessehimself]

[repmarktakano]

Today I spoke on the House floor to honor Fred Korematsu Day and to warn my colleagues that silence and complicity in the face of discrimination is never acceptable. It was shameful in 1942 and it is shameful today. We must always uphold the American principle of liberty and justice for all.

Watch the video here.

[blackness-by-your-side]

This is very important.  

[wretchedoftheearth]

Within women’s and gender studies, the language of intersectionality is often appropriated to mean putting together already existing theoretical frameworks, or including the experiences of those “left out” of white feminist projects, in a way that evades theoretical consideration of race altogether. Thus, grappling with intersectionality is often mistakenly reduced to a call to include the experiences of women of color. Sidestepping the challenge to feminism inherent in the theoretical and political project of intersectionality, this framework of inclusion fails to confront racism for a number of reasons. First, to include women of color into women’s and gender studies leaves the core concepts of the field intact and suggests that the lives of women of color are just another area of study that can be analyzed in the same way that white women’s experiences have been. Rather than take seriously the theories of race and gender and the feminist politics that emerge when the experiences of women of color are centered, inclusion simply invites women of color into a project that has already been defined in relation to the experiences of white women (Alarcón 1991; A. Smith 2004). Instead of taking intersectionality as a call to fundamentally transform (or abandon) frameworks that cannot grapple with racial difference, inclusion frequently preserves those frameworks as they are by simply adding to them. Second, inclusion often fails to take into account the relationality of different women’s experiences and instead repositions white women’s experiences as the norm from which experiences of women of color differ. As Elsa Barkley Brown notes, the point is not just that women of color and white women have different experiences but rather that racism is a structure of power in which ‘white women live the lives they do in large part because women of color live the ones they do (E. Brown 1992, 298). Finally, including the experiences of women of color does not require the development of theoretical approaches that demonstrate how race is gendered and gender is raced beyond the scale of individual experiences. What emerges from inclusion is a focus on accounting for different identities rather than on critically interrogating the mechanisms of power by which particular identities are produced as such.

Priya Kandaswamy, “Gendering Racial Formation” from Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century (via wretchedoftheearth)

[domeiqiu]

#tb #dvs123 Du är på en plats Ingen känner dig Ingen vet vem du är Du är anonym Din identitet är främmande Du är synlig Sticker ut Ingen annan ser ut som du I denna främmande plats är det du som är annorlunda Du åker hem Hamnar på platsen som ska vara ditt land Känner dig inte hemma Känner dig fortfarande främmande Du är i rörelse Söker samhörighet Strävar efter trygghet Hamnar i en gråzon Där platsen hem inte är en plats (på/i Stockholm, Sweden)

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❄️❄️❄️ (på/i Stockholm, Sweden)

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Law enforcement in Morton County, North Dakota — armed in riot gear — began removing protesters who were occupying the Dakota Access Pipeline site on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation Thursday.

Officers removed a roadblock placed by Native American and environmental rights activists. The removal process resulted in a clash between protesters and officers.

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[bearnomadwizard]

i am honestly so scared right now… this is bad. really rREALLY bad…