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No DNI, be kind or don't be!!! More about me under the cut

★ I'm Latino. Please don't take my posts about the Global North personally. I don't hate you, I hate that I'm oppressed because of geopolitics and xenophobia.

★ I might block, but never a friend. It's hardly something personal.

★ I'm an art professional. This involves my work in: education (university level), [queer art] research, freelance illustration, books, and video games.

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★ I'm a leftist (the Latinamerican kind), and I have a nonstandard view on faith and religion for myself. Please be aware of that

★ I can't tag everything, but you're welcome to ask.

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[alenkorra]

One of my favorite facts about the history of Malvinas Islands is that a group of indigenous Charrua people led by a Gaucho (think badass, brown cowboys with leather whips instead of firearms) tried to take back the islands from the English in 1833... and succeeded.

They captured everyone they didn't kill and took down the British flags. Then, English reinforcements arrived and captured them.

But the funny thing is: when el Gaucho Rivero and the Charruas were taken to England to be prosecuted, the court determined they were innocent, since the crimes they'd committed happened outside of British jurisdiction. So they were set free and returned safely to their homeland.

Of course, the Islands are still occupied by the English and we lost the actual war in 1982, but it's always worth remembering just how long we've been trying to reclaim territory that was ours hundreds of years before the British claimed it.

[latinotiktok]

[heinousier-bitch]

No voy a decir nada nuevo, pero las dos razones por las cuales a los argentinos nos perciben como arrogantes es porque 1) no nos achicamos ante nadie, y 2) no nos creemos menos que nadie. Habrá mucha gente y muchos países que se tragan que los europeos o los yanquis son mejores, pero nosotros no. Acá constantemente demostramos que con condiciones menos favorables podemos llegar a los mismos (y mejores) resultados que aquellos que "tienen todo". Aguante Argentina

[depsidase]

[bobdylanyaoi]

[soracities]

Wisława Szymborska, from “Children of Our Age”, View with a Grain of Sand (trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh)  

[emiyamore]

[sudaca-swag]

futbol died when it reached europe

[barbiehelmet]

the zendaya thing isnt even a new phenomenon by any means!! the article mentions margot robbie wearing the taj mahal diamond as well, and in addition to that i also want to remind people that diljit dosanjh's request to wear the patiala necklace for the 2025 met gala was denied by cartier because they said it was in a museum and could not be loaned. however they had no issues at all loaning it to emma chamberlain, a white woman, for the 2022 met gala, while they turned down the request of a punjabi man who wanted it to honor his heritage.

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

[pudulogy]

[caprart1]

And I call this piece "holy fucking moly I need that woman !!!!"

[carpintransa]

no one is going to put the required time and money to completely verify this but a lot of users realized that the twitter accounts that started spreading hate and misinformation of Argentina in huge amounts already did this but towards elections in African countrys, so people started to suspect team Jorge(Israeli contractors specialized in the use of malign cyber activities and bot farm-run social media disinformation campaigns) who were exposed by journalists of Forbidden Stories(non-profit organization with the mission to continue and publish the work of other persecuted journalists) for doing exactly that.

here's another article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/disinformation-hacking-operative-team-jorge-tal-hanan

This suspicion only grows if you look at the political context: to make it short, making general opinion hate or not care about what happens to the population of an entire country is the first step for getting away with making their lives worse by controlling and stealing their land and resources

[televisionenjoyer]

Even so you read British accounts about the "failure of Argentina to establish a proper population" and it's all like

Tried to establish a population → They died under bizarre circumstances we don't fully understand but were unrelated to the British → Tried to establish a population → They died under bizarre circumstances we don't fully understand but were unrelated to the British → "Since Argentina has multiple times failed to establish a significant population here we have decided to retract our permission for Argentina to establish a population here"

[televisionenjoyer]

Piensen que esta gente usa wikipedia para informarse

[hagiomoto]

I hate digital nomads and I think we should kill every single one of them

[choilacanth]

The college's most enthusiastic layabout, wip 2

[footlongdingledong2]

vomits