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You are the universe experiencing itself.

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"It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising." - Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (1946-2016)

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what kind of cars have you owned and which one was your fav?

I've never 'owned' cars as I've always had loans. My first car was a 2011 Nissan Versa and my current car is a 2013 Jalapeño green Chevy Spark. While I like my Spark's MPG and aesthetics, I admired the comfort and legroom of my Nissan.

where are you from originally? Where are your parents from and where did they meet?

"Originally" I was birthed in Key West, Florida. I'm a 'conch native' by right. My parents are Filipino and Irish/Prussian, though my 'father' is estranged and I was raised in a Filipino/African-American home with my stepfather I claim as my own.My parents met in an arranged fiancé petition marriage orchestrated by my grandmother.

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Frederick Arthur Bridgman

Le Pirate d’amour

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Jeune femme sur une terrasse / Young woman on a terrace. Problably Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889. Oil on Canvas. 99 x 114 cm.

Art by Frederick-Arthur Bridgman.(1847-1928). American School.

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Orientalism is a way of thinking that gives rationalization for European/Western colonialism based on the oppressive history in which “the West” constructed “the East” as “exotic”, “backward”, less “enlightened”, and in need of imperialism to be rescued. Part of it involves seeing Arab culture as exotic, uncivilized — representing a widespread socialization of which Europeans/Westerners are seen as inherently superior in comparison. A part of Orientalism includes exoticization against the “Orient”/”Other” (East), which also involves seeing women of color as needing to be liberated via hypersexualization. In history, Orientalism hugely affects religious women of color and seeks to suppress certain religious rights. For example, historic colonialist violence relies on Orientalism to unveil religious Muslim women of color. This is found in the example of when Lord Cromer, a British leader in Egypt, accused the Egyptians of degrading women through veiling. Thus he attempted to unveil Egyptian women, which can be said to be a form of hypersexualization; and he attempted to show himself as liberating the “Orient”, whilst using the opportunity to end the pre-existing Egyptian practice of training women to be doctors and furthering colonialist interest at the expense of women. However, due to the large legacies left behind by historic colonialism, Orientalism can encompass many things globally and is not exclusively a religious issue; thus it extends to structures of institutional racism that are still alive today, which also effect non-religious women of color.

Hampshire, UK Feminist Collective (via feministwomenofcolor)

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Young Woman from Tanger (details), 1874, Jean-François Portaels

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Metallic Brocade and Lace Evening Dress, ca. 1913-14

via National Museum of Norway

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The Haunting Story of Filipinos Locked in a ‘Human Zoo’ | FilipiKnow

While we’ve known for a fact that our ancestors were often looked down upon by their colonizers as dark-skinned uneducated savages, the lowest point of this centuries-old discrimination came in the form of America’s human zoos in the early 1900s.

This is when thousands of Filipino tribesmen were taken from their homeland and displayed in exhibits for the American people to gawk at.

To put this shocking story in context, the 19th and early 20th century were periods of expansion by Western powers who were eager to display just how advanced their civilization were compared to the rest of the world. While exhibits featuring people from conquered territories have been recorded as early as 1400, the modern human zoo kicked off with infamous showman P.T. Barnum’s exhibition of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker on February 25, 1835.

Going by this logic, the US government—also eager to justify its reason of annexing the Philippines—imported 1,300 indigenous Filipinos from different tribes to the tune of $1.5 million and displayed them at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. There the tribespeople—introduced to visitors as primitive dog-eating headhunters to emphasize the US government’s stance that Filipinos were not ready for self-government—were made to live out their daily lives in full view of the public.

Of course, a few enterprising Americans looking to make some money also brought in their own tribesmen. With the official sanction of the government, medical/showman/former lieutenant governor of Bontoc Truman Hunt brought with him a troupe of Igorots in 1905 to the US mainland where they travelled around and put on human exhibits. He was rivalled in his endeavor by another American, former cigar salesman Richard Schneidewind who was married to a Filipina. As rivals, both tried to outdo each other in showmanship by doing as many tours as they could.

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