barely American

biracial bisexual writer artist adhd gamer Hawai'i, '90, sexily married, baby incoming ao3: myworldisbiworld art sideblog: @mybimakes

[mybiworld]

Tired of arguing with racists who can't take two seconds to empathize and then another two to research. Not my job to teach you either but keep fucking up the world for my child. Bye Tumblr.

[inkskinned]

A woman's fear is a negated reality. Women aren't afraid, they're paranoid. They watched too much CSI. They hate men and now think it's unsafe to be near a group of strangers. They had one bad experience, so what? They're hysterical. They're just high strung. They have nothing to worry about.

I am watching a bad movie, laughing over popcorn when the woman screams and the man stays calm and tells her she's imagining things. I am watching a good movie, and the woman is afraid while the man tells her to get herself together. I am watching, and the woman tells people: "this man is violent, and I am not safe", and people roll their eyes behind her, snickering in her wake. I am watching, and the woman gets a restraining order that does nothing and saves no one. I am watching, and I am afraid.

My coworker tells me he used to just walk around at night in random cities talking to random people, joining random parties. I said I could never. He asks - what is there to be afraid of?

What is there to be afraid of? If we started listening to women, the world isn't a safe one. It's easier, isn't it? To dismiss us all as being just messed up, making up stories in our head. Why bother? You know how women are. Always going to the bathroom with their friends. Always carrying their drink with them. Always making knuckled spikes out of car keys. Always checking the back seat. Always making something from nothing.

[6stronghands]

“Lemonade was not made for me, either. As a Singaporean Chinese woman, I would be lying if I said I was familiar with the complex, myriad ways Beyoncé explores black female personhood, sexuality, and spirituality in the film. But as a non-American, non-white woman, what I am familiar with is appreciating art that is not and will never be made with me in mind. This is a process that white people are now struggling with more publicly than ever. It seems to me that much of the pain in this process comes from entitlement, which often stems from ignorance. I wonder: Do white people in the Western world understand just how much of global popular culture is tailored to their tastes and their histories? Do white people in the Western world know that, for non-white people who wish to participate in and discuss global popular culture, being well-versed in white cultural and musical history is almost compulsory? Do white people in the Western world know how laughable it is that they feel excluded just because a popular work of art dares to be less culturally legible to them?”

— Beyoncé’s Lemonade: A Lesson on Appreciating Art That Wasn’t Made for You | Consequence of Sound (via luxuriousvulgarity)

[guerrillatech]

[politijohn]

[politijohn]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[dawngranger]

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in AMMONITE (2020) dir. Francis Lee

[liberalsarecool]

Entire Georgia county claims no mail-in ballots.

How does Brian Kemp explain his incompetence? How does he explain suppressing votes from certain counties?

[ms-cellanies]

Just in case anyone missed this the last 2 or 3 times I reblogged it.

[cyberobsessed]

very quick sketch of a pacified Burakh who stroking the grass :3

[tomorrowsofyesterday]

Ghost in the Shell (2017) starring Scarlett Johansson

[veronicadelica]

NYC, 2017

Weronika Dudka

Check out my Instagram

[prinnay]

Citrus

[tikkety-tok]

[randomencounters]

Encounter: Bob the Australian Necromancer

[mybiworld]

tired and angry

[ginzers]

Teach children that this is not ok

[princess-roxxi-remade-deactivat]

Teach children that there’s nothing wrong with this

[ginzers]

I’m really not understanding why you think cultural appropriation would be ok, unless you are assuming that the girl in the picture is part Japanese.

[princess-roxxi-remade-deactivat]

Yellow face yet she’s using white makeup in the traditional style but okay.

Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing, hon. ☺️ Cultures should be shared by all means.

[ginzers]

I disagree. The makeup is clearly reflective of traditional Geisha makeup which is yellowface and therefore racist. Furthermore, the girl is wearing a kimono, a garment that has for ages carried cultural significance. Assuming that she is white how can you think this is ok? And cultural appropriation isn’t a thing? What rock do you live under? I suggest you educate yourself on the differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

I am japanese, in japan at this very moment. The only people who think culture shouldnt be shared are racists like you.

A vast majority of Japanese people actually enjoy other people making an effort to spread and enjoy japanese culture, and encourage it. Many make businesses in deliberately taking pictures of people in kimono. A common omiage (gift) for foreigners from japanese people is traditional japanese things such as kimonos, tea seats, shisa dog statues, ect.

And to top it off, basically 80 percent of japanese customs, traditions, and food, came from other countries. Japanese is an integration of different cultures, like america. Japan takes influences from places like korea, china, russia, and europe. If japan stuck to itself, there would be no tempura, japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, japanese bread, japanese curry, j- pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques. The picture is not “yellow face” they are not making fun of asians. In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.

The only reason that you have a problem with this is because that little girl is white and you know that it is acceptable on tumblr to crap all over white people. The only racist here is you.

[takesabeating]

Rekt

[schuetzengrabenmints-deactivate]

b t f o

[jennaavh-deactivated20160117]

Dang she got shut down.

[dilfweed]

Damn I’ve never hit reblog so fast in my entire fucking life

[daissychainss-blog]

Daaaaamn

[semiauto14]

Pew pew pew

[lifeiscaulscott]

I reblog this every time I see it

[littleblackchat]

I live in Japan and I’d like to back up this sentiment. 

Recently a museum in Boston came under a lot of fire for allowing visitors to wear a ‘kimono’ (it was featuring a painting my Monet of a girl – a white girl – in a kimono, and the museum had replicas made that guests of ANY RACE could wear to mimic the painting, Pageant-of-the-Masters style). After protests and heated debate, the museum closed the event.

I was living in Japan at the time, and out of all the *actual* Japanese people I asked, not a single one was offended by the event. Rather, they were excited that people half a world away were showing interest in their culture, and were sad that visitors could no longer enjoy the event.

This party, though somewhat silly in application, is an attempt at experiencing and appreciating another culture. The mom who put this together is not an expert on Japan, but she did her best. She got a lot of things right: there are few things Japan loves more than tea, Pocky, and sakura. 

Where do you draw the line for who is “allowed” to learn about Japan? If the girl were of Japanese descent, would that make it ok (even though her citizenship would be the same as the girl from the photo)? If one of the girl’s parents were from Japan, then would it be ok? 

Are you only allowed to make pizza if you live in Italy? If you’re an Italian immigrant? How do we decide these things??

You can’t say you want to dismantle racism and then in the next breath make rules – based on race – for who people can wear, try, or eat, especially when the intent is obviously to have fun experiencing a culture (as opposed to having fun by making fun of a race or culture, like blackface does). 

When you tell people they can only experience things ‘meant for their race’, it totally smacks of segregation to me and I can’t stand it. As someone who (obviously) loves Japan, I say let people learn about it, let people experience it, let people appreciate it. You don’t have to know every single thing about a culture to enjoy it.

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[henryismywaifu]

fucking people got owned is what, fuck i hate how people say you cant do shit when culture should be shared and is shared its how it grows and changes through fucking generations itS HOW YOU LEARN about the world and just fucking, tumblr fucking stupid like 70% of the dam time

[jdbsmg-star]

this new light

[kaldicuct]

Vintage post, sipping on it like fine wine.

[mybiworld]

OK WOW this post is wrong all so many levels I want to cry.

There’s a big difference between wearing a kimono and making a culture a costume, as is clearly being done by the young girl here. What is she learning, exactly? Because there are a million things wrong with how she’s dressed (including her makeup, which is based on yellowface interpretation instead of the actual geisha traditional style) and how she’s depicted if the goal is educational. This is like having your child play blackface to learn about the African American experience.

There’s a big difference between how Japanese living in Japan react to foreigners (particularly white people) wearing kimono versus how the Japanese diaspora views it. The former group benefits from ‘cultural showcasing’ while the latter has often been persecuted and discriminated against for it. (remember those concentration camps? anyone? no?) The latter group is the one with children that get called “ching chong”, told their food is weird and smells bad, that their faces aren’t the right shape, that they aren’t really Japanese, and then have their cultures repackaged and sold at a premium.

If your argument is education, then educate yourself. Don’t cheapen your own experience by being lazy.

[tiffbaxter]

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