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with everything that’s going on with bon apetit, i thought i’d just share some of my favorite recipe-based youtube channels run by people of color

just one cookbook - a super wide variety of japanese recipes. easy step-by-steps and all the recipes i’ve tried have been delicious

souped up recipes - chinese recipes - very informative videos and tasty food - i love her personality too

maangchi - who doesn’t love maangchi. delicious korean recipes and a fabulous personality

get curried - a huge variety of recipes from various regions of india

simply mama cooks - my fav for tejano food. i believe she’s a mexicana married into a korean family, and draws a lot from that

immaculate bites - mostly quick ‘tasty’ style video recipes focusing on southern us, african, and carribean foods. easy and delicious stuff!

stove top kisses - fun and delicious recipes and the videos are super fun to watch - mostly american food

j kenji lopez alt - author of the book ‘the food lab’ - he’s maybe my favorite recipe developer out there. all kinds of food and hes super knowledgeable

sadieekane

Here are some vegan channels run by people of color, as well!

gourmet vegetarian kitchen - super creative projects. i personally find them very inspiring since she does things like make vegan cheese or ferment soy beans over the course of months

peaceful cuisine - he makes asmr & recipe versions of videos. everything is vegan. lots of desserts and traditional japanese cuisine

rachel ama - vegan food with a frequent caribbean twist! I love her! She has her own cookbook

cheap lazy vegan - her channel has an angle of vegan food intended for low budgets. she creates a lot of simple recipes. she has a recipe ebook as well as a free newsletter

tikkunolamorgtfo

Just to add a few more Indian options:

Sruthi’s Kitchen - Huge catalog of instructional videos; exclusively vegetarian.

My Heart Beets - My go-to for everything pressure-cooker related, and almost all of her recipes happen to be gluten-free (even more content on her website).

Food with Chetna - Mostly Indian recipes with some British/Western-Desi fusion thrown in.

Desi Food Recipes - Okay, this one is mostly in Hindi, but—it’s just an entire channel of a little granny making Indian food using traditional Desi cooking methods, and it’s so goddamn soothing??? I haven’t cooked a thing from this channel but watching this woman make ladoo cleansed my fucking soul. Just watch it.

cwnerd12

DON’T FORGET MY FAVORITE, ABUELATUBE!

De Mi Rancho a Tu Cocina

Doña Lupita

Así se Cocina en el Rancho

I’ve actually ended up making a lot more food from De Mi Rancho rather than BA because she’s making simple food for her family with ingredients that are a lot easier to find.

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Click for more 1961 - 1969 Lincoln Continentals

radicalgraff

“Make the rich pay for covid19 / ACAB”

Seen in Turin, Italy

1ipgloss

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAie1RpHcd2/

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matchgirl42

See: last post

angel-the-conure

Messy birb

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minmaneth

…and, at the time of his death, he was one of the most hated people in the USA.

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The FBI sent him a letter trying to convince him to commit suicide. Don’t let this revisionist bullshit slide. The things they say now about protests, kneeling, etc, are the same things they said about the sit-ins and marches.

furbearingbrick

respectability politics is a trap.

darksteel-relic

Look at this vintage political cartoon. Reactions to MLK and BLM are near identical.

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His own kids are telling yall not to fall for the bullshit

tolkienillustrations

Racism in the Tolkien fandom

I recently reblogged this post about anti-racism and got this reply from a user named folksol:

If anyone doesn’t think there’s racism in this fandom, here’s your wake-up call.

This person not only believes that the majority of my followers are far right, they also believe that I - despite clearly loathing the far right - should cater to their horrific ideology. This is some peak white racist delusion right here. I laughed out loud. I’m still laughing at the phrasing of it. “Excuse me.” Oh, are you clutching your pearls? Are you upset because I reblogged an anti-racist post on my own blog during a worldwide uprising against racism? “We, your followers” - as if this person is my constituent to whom I am somehow beholden. I guess they didn’t read my about page, which clearly tells white supremacists they are not welcome here.

In case anyone thinks folksol is trolling, I’m sad to say they’re not. Unfortunately, for those who are unaware, there is a long history of the far right trying to claim Tolkien for themselves the same way that the Nazis tried to claim Norse mythology and Viking symbols. And this is not a one time occurence on this blog. I’ve also received messages from other white supremacists who are upset that I’m talking about racial justice and think my blog is for them. While the far right is by no means a majority of the Tolkien fandom, some of them are obviously here. Which means it’s our job to kick them out.

I’m not sure why I should need to explain this to anyone, but Tolkien hated the Nazis and he hated apartheid. If you are a member of the far right or similar groups he would have hated you too. It’s laughably uninformed for the far right to act like Tolkien is “theirs.” He hated you pieces of shit! So do I! And I’d venture a guess that so do the majority of my followers.

Of course, Tolkien’s opposition to Nazism and apartheid doesn’t absolve him of holding internalized racist beliefs. It’s important for white people to recognize that racism exists on a spectrum. On one extreme we have people like the Nazis and the KKK, who overtly support racism. But white people who repudiate these groups can still hold racist views. (For more information, here’s Tolkien Gateway’s article Racism in Tolkien’s Works, and Our Failure to Address LOTR’s Racism written by @weirdnaturalscience.) The post I linked to at the top has resources for examining your own biases.

When discussing racism in Tolkien’s works, or racism in fandom, it’s important for white people to have an open mind, not get defensive, and to listen to people of color. No one is saying you can’t be a fan of Tolkien, only that Tolkien’s opposition to the Nazis didn’t stop him from incorporating some worrying tropes in his writing. It’s possible to incorporate racist ideas in writing without intending to do so.

I also want to say that when we kick the far right out of the fandom, we can’t consider the job done. Because it’s not just the far right. If we have people in fandom who overtly support racism, then we also have people in fandom on other parts of that racist spectrum. In fandom spaces Black people and other people of color are frequently harassed, trolled, and excluded, and often white fans refuse to believe or listen to their experiences of racism.

Let’s do better, Tolkien fans! We need to listen to and include fans of color and educate ourselves about internalized racism so that fandom can be an enjoyable place for everyone. (Everyone except the far right.)

khorazir

This is important. @diversetolkien has good stuff about Tolkien and racism, too.

Oh, and if any right-wing so-called Tolkien fans are following me on tumblr or elsewhere, piss off. I remember the thinly veiled racist bullshit some of you felt entitled to tweet about one of my drawings, “Tolkien on the Tube”, because it depicts diverse readers of his books.

diversetolkien

Thank you for mentioning me! This means so much to see fans actively calling out racism.

I won’t say much, because @tolkienillustrations really articulated it with the bit about different spectrum of racism, but please take that to heart. Not ever bit of racism is going to be overt.

It is exclusion, it is refusing to acknowledge just how deep Tolkien’s racism runs, it is going out of one’s way to discredit experiences of racism people of color have in relation to the text.

So please take that to heart, Tolkien fandom. Start analyzing the conversations you’ve had around decolonizing Tolkien’s work. And if you haven’t had such conversations, maybe it’s time to start asking around.

Thank you for compiling this!

valtsv

my hot take

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clungedestroyer

marauders4evr

So my brother and I were just talking on the phone and we realized: Aang might have mastered all four elements but Sokka mastered the non-bending styles from all four nations!

He already knew how to fight with Water Tribe weapons/regalia:

Then, in what’s likely the first Earth Kingdom village he’s ever visited, he learned how to fight with the Warriors of Kyoshi:

When he reached the Northern Air Temple, he was able to tap into the philosophy of the airbenders and realize that the best way to win a battle is to avoid face-to-face confrontation by instead using creative means (and the sky) to take down your opponent:

And finally, when he reached the Fire Nation, Piandao taught him how to forge a unique weapon and hone his swordsmanship:

Sokka learned all four non-bending styles!

Really puts Iroh’s quote into a different context:

“Understanding the other nations will help you become whole.”

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you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

itsoldjohn

that last one is literally a LOOK

cassiocantdrink

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree.