watch out for this girl

emmy. live happy, man.

[sridevi]

Devon Aoki  //  M.I.L.F. $

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I gotta be on my own

gravel to tempo (and hayley kiyoko) are my everything right now 

[unoqlo]

AlexShibutani: She keeps me adequately caffeinated. ☕️🏆 #SisterOfTheYear

[femaleidols]

taeyeon why teasers

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Selena via snapchat

[soph-okonedo]

U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama covers Seventeen Magazine May 2016

[diversityinfilmtv]

I guess Rinko Kikuchi wasn’t available? 

 The troubling and mind-boggling Hollywood trend of whitewashing Asian manga and anime work continues. Ghost in the Shell is the latest in this trend (see Speed Racer, Dragon Ball Z, et. al). Based on the critically-acclaimed science fiction manga developed by Masamune Shirow, it follows the Major, a special ops human-cyborg hybrid, who leads the elite task force Section 9, which is devoted to stopping dangerous criminals and extremists. Section 9 faces an enemy whose singular goal is to wipe out Hanka Robotic’s advancements in cyber technology.

 Lainey Gossip has an interesting write-up on this movie and its casting.

Following the Oscars and the anger stemming from Chris Rock’s jokeinvolving Asian children during the show, the question of whom, exactly, Hollywood inclusion is helping came up. In America, the diversity question is almost always, implicitly if not explicitly, a black/white issue. But representation is bad across the board, and it’s REALLY bad for Asians. (Joe Starr wrote this great piece about the frustrating sidelining of John Cho.) There’s no equality Olympics, but you can’t ignore that Asian representation is too often not part of the conversation, even though it’s also a dire situation.

See also  Why Doesn’t Hollywood Cast Asian Actors for Anime Adaptations?

 See also The Frustrating Career of John Cho

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Mind Over Matter // Young The Giant

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this is my kingdom come

[realdetective]

Mirai Nagasu practices before the World Figure Skating Championships at the TD Garden in Boston on March 28, 2016.

[princessnijireiki]

    “ The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can. ”

- Q’orianka Kilcher

[espritfollet]

This is a map of Asia. North Americans, you may notice this map is not solely comprised of Japan, Korea, China and Thailand. People in the UK, you may notice India is not  a continent. That is, if those of you who generalize entire continents can even pinpoint India on a map. Indians are Asian, gasp! And not all brown skinned people are Indian, also, gasp! There are an alarming amount of people, of all ages, from all backgrounds, who seem to be unable to process this.

I’m ethnically Asian. Since Asia is an extremely large continent, I could be from any number of countries. I am neither from India, China, Korea, Japan or Pakistan, yet not so surprisingly, I am still Asian. 

Yes, there are commonalities across regions, through the conflation of cultures, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism and movement of diasporas. Sometimes these are all the same thing. Rickshaws, rice and curry can be found across the continent. But let’s not overgeneralize. You can also find Buddhists, Catholics, Muslims and Hindus across Asia. Cantonese Speaking Chinese Muslims! English Speaking Indian Jews! 

No, we are not all the same. Orientalism? (Please look up Edward Said for basic concepts) No thank you. 

Geography, people. It’s important. 

[fuckyeahethnicwomen]

This pops up on my dash every so often. I reblog it again, not just because I wrote it, but because nothing has changed since I first posted this.

[dentalgoth]

What’s cool about Iran is that it falls in 3 different regions of Asia so depending on what part of Iran you’re in, you can kind of get culture shocked a bit. The central and western part of the country is West Asia, the north east is Central Asia, and the southeast is in South Asia. 

[numinous-queer]

To the folks wondering about Russia being included, I want to mention that the cultural debates and angst about that has been going on for CENTURIES. While France has been pretty fetishized all the way back from Peter the Great, there is no question that we are not Europe, even with that influence showing really obviously in historical seats of power like St. Petersburg. Nonetheless, the whole country was under control of the Mongols (The Golden Horde) from roughly 1242 to 1480, and that left an enormous Mongolian and Tatar heritage that remains to this day. The ancient Scythians are huge in the cultural imagination as well. And besides… look at the Russians who are outside the standard “Kievan Rus” phenotype (which most folks assume is how all Russians look.) 

Here are three of the 30 distinct ethnic groups in Siberia alone:

Buryat grandfather, photo by Alexander Newby

Evenk children, photo by Evgenia Arbugaeva

Young Yakut couple, photographer unknown

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boom

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AS SOMEONE WITH NORTHERN IRANIAN (AZERBAIJANI)/RUSSIAN/ HAZARA-PERSIAN/ UYGHUR-CHINESE ANCESTRY THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL POST 

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And that’s why sometimes you’ll see a person with curly black hair, pale skin, and hazel-green eyes (my grand-father’s sister) who turn out to be Chinese. Mad recessive genes game at play, I swear. Mongols, they really got around. 

[yondamoegi]

I will reblog this post whenever I’ll see it. Like, as yakutian person I thank you for including Yakuts, man!

[fuckyeahethnicwomen]

Yallah! So many notes. Keep sharing, my friends.

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Visit Original Link

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E•MO•TION + favourite lyrics

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57 Facts That Prove The Oscars Are (And Have Always Been) So White

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9 incredible moments from #JusticeForFlint you may have missed during the Oscars

More than 2,000 miles away from the glitz and glamour of the Oscars, a determined group of Hollywood heavyweights used the collective weight of their influence to raise more than $140,000 for residents of Flint, Michigan. You have to see the videos of Stevie Wonder, Jazmine Sullivan and the Flint Youth Poets.