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[diaryofanangryasianguy]

03/17/21

Local Asian-American reflects on Atlanta shooting and past year of racism towards Asian community

According to a report by Stop AAPI Hate, about 3,800 anti-Asian hate incidents were reported nationwide in the last 12 months. Of those, Georgia was ranked as the twelfth-highest state for crimes reported. One local Chattanoogan, Victoria Yang, said those numbers don't surprise her and she is hoping for some kind of change.

She said the recent racial stereotypes of Asian-American people and the coronavirus have changed things for her here in Chattanooga and online. “I posted a piece about a family member that passed away and one of the comments was ‘How’s that one-child policy now for you,'" Yang recalled.

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Shin-Hee Chin, Mother Tongue and Foreign Language, handmade Korean Jeogori, quilted, stitched, stenciled, 2014

[sioxh]

Nam June Paik, My Faust-Communication, 1989-1991

[korean-art]

if you like kpop, if you like anime, if you like the art and culture produced from asian countries, please think constructively about how you can contribute to stopping asian hatred and anti-asian racism.

please listen to us when we tell you that we dont feel safe.

https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/

[kakuriyo]

[jazminesullivan]

DOROTHY DANDRIDGE & HARRY BELAFONTE Carmen Jones (1954)

[edwinquina]

Bohol, the Philippines

[badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista]

Abode of Felicity / در سعادت  /// LOVE POEM IN SIGN LANGUAGE by Sabina England

Created exclusively for the 2021 REEL Poetry Film Festival and Public Poetry (Houston, Texas) 

Written, performed, and edited by Sabina England 💙 The poem was inspired by my travels to Istanbul, Jerusalem and Jordan. The name “Abode of Felicity” was a Turkish Ottoman nickname for Istanbul, and also for a chamber at the Topkapi Palace, the medieval home of the early Ottoman rulers. 💙 

Music by DJ Saka, Voice by Angela Says, Arabic Calligraphy by Leili Solat 💙 

My Website

Instagram.com/Sabina_England 

 STAY BLESSED AND SAFE!! 💙💙💙💙

[badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista]

New videopoem  💙 💙 💙 💙

[thekimonogallery]

“Furisode ” is a furisode collection born from the kimono shop “ KAPUKI ” in Nakameguro, Tokyo. [3 of 3]

[badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista]

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

From Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. Copyright © 1995 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Reprinted with the permission of the author. (via badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista)

[badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista]

“Anthropocene: A Dictionary” by Jake Skeets / A Navajo Poem

(definitions provided by the Navajo–English Dictionary by Leon Wall & William Morgan)

dibé bighan: sheep corral

juniper beams caught charcoal in the late summer morning night still pooled in hoof prints; deer panicked run from water

ooljéé’ biná’adinídíín: moonlight

perched above the town drowned in orange and streetlamp the road back home dips with the earth                                                                    shines black in the sirens

bit’a’ :  its sails or—its wing (s)

          driving through the mountain pass                       dólii, mountain bluebird, swings out—           from swollen branches I never see those anymore, someone says

diyóół        : wind (

                        wind (more of it) more wind as in (to come up)                         plastic bags driftwood the fence line

nihootsoii            :             evening—somewhere northward fire                                       twists around the shrublands;                               sky dipped in smoke—twilight        —there is a word for this,                                                    someone says

                                       :           deidííłid, they burned it                                              :           kódeiilyaa, we did this

Copyright © 2021 by Jake Skeets. 

Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 13, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

[badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista]

Video in Chinese with English subtitles about traditional Chinese art of cloud brocade, the clothes and various items in this video are soooo beautiful. 

Yunjin was once a fabric used by the Chinese royal family for a thousand years, but now it is on the verge of being lost. This time, I went to Nanjing and visited the latest heir of the Cloud Brocade Institute and a young but famous designer who loves ancient Chinese style. Let’s see how this ancient royal fabric can find its place again in the modern world.

[inkjadestudio]

Meet Shiyin, the Fashion Influencer Shaping China’s Hanfu Style Revival

Vogue meets the influential Shiyin, one of the country’s leading exponents of Hanfu, a way of dressing that is rooted in Chinese tradition.

[ziseviolet]

It’s super exciting to see Vogue feature hanfu (the first time I think?) in their “Global Women 2021″ piece for International Women’s Day. I’ve been keeping an eye on Shiyin for some time, so it’s awesome to see her being interviewed and highlighted here. She has several hanfu videos on her Youtube channel (some with English subtitles/in English), go follow her here!

[boredpanda]

1800s-1900s Portraits Of Native American Teen Girls Show Their Unique Beauty And Style (15+ Pics)

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I love love love seeing historical/archival photos of people who are not white Christian Europeans :)

[sashayed]

this is my fave from the source, tho.

[titenoute]

You have no fucking idea how much i love you for the sources.

[perioddramasource]

Daveed Diggs as Frederick Douglass in The Good Lord Bird

Requested by anonymous

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We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee by Redbone plays in the background of the Tik Tok.

White text starts at the top of the screen, displaying information. “The song you are hearing was not allowed to be played on U.S radio stations in 1970’s”.

The dancer makes hoops go from Eagle to Earth form.

“It created by a popular Native American band called Redbone and it hit number 1 charts all over Europe.”

“The song raised awareness about what happened at Wounded Knee”

They finish the Earth form, centering themself. “Let’s get it trending”.

Screen switches to the Tik Toker’s name and username, James Jones / @notoriouscree

END]

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How White Fandom is Colonizing “Character-Coding”

It’s time for fandom (particularly, white fandom) to learn what “character-coding” is and how they’ve been misusing it.

When characters of color and their actors are vulnerable to racial scrutiny, it should be quite clear why fandom’s desire to suggest white characters are meant to be seen and sympathized with as people of color is a problem.

I finally sat down and finished what I set out to do months ago and wrote an article on how white fandom has misused and abused the term “coding” to suggest their favorite white characters are meant to be seen as people of color.

Trigger Warnings: Racism, a little bit of fatphobia, and some ableism (in the screenshots).

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Anyway, for those who haven’t read the article I wrote about the subject of mishandling the term “coding,” here it is.

[palletprincess-deactivated20220]

So I finally got around to reading the entire article. Just out of curiosity, what about a poc like me who relates with Loki though? I find his story heavily poc-coded. There’s clearly some racism and discrimination going on over there. And I don’t think it’s fair to ignore it.

Also, I think I am more than capable of multi-tasking? If characters played by actors of colour are interesting/complex, I can very well like them too. I do have a lot of favourites who are played by poc actually. I don’t see how acknowledging Loki’s story would affect my love for them.

Also many people in Loki-fandom are poc. Many more are ace and aren’t even attracted to Tom Hiddleston in any way. Please stop generalizing about Loki fandom. It has gotten really tiring.

[positively--speculative]

As a person of color, you are welcome to misuse the “coding” term as well. 🤷🏾‍♀️ That doesn’t change the fact that what the Loki fandom (and other fandoms) say is “coding” is not what the word means…like, at all.

I also didn’t generalize anything. If I said it once, I said it a thousand times: If something I write is not about you, then stop making it about you. Never in my article did I say being attracted to Loki or Tom Hiddleston is the only reason for their popularity or this behavior, but I think you know that.

[palletprincess-deactivated20220]

Well Loki seems poc-coded to me because he literally belonged to one race and was raised by another (an imperialistic, colonizing race). He was raised to believe that the Jotuns are monsters which resulted in self-hatred, anger etc. Now considering that Odin, Hela and Asgardians colonized other planets, they could be viewed as a stand-in for whites. In which case, people from other realms could be viewed as poc, hence Loki becomes poc-coded. 

Actually, as an Indian, I find it similar to the British colonizing different countries, which had included mine. 

So, basically, what I am saying is, different people have different experiences. And just because my interpretation is different, does not mean I am misusing the word. 

And glad to know you weren’t generalizing. People do that a lot with the Loki-fandom. Anyways, have a great day! :D 

[positively--speculative]

As someone of Indian descent, you are very much welcome to identify with those parts of him. I relate to Loki to a certain degree as well, but again, that doesn’t make him “poc-coded.” It just means that some parts of him can be relatable to different people of color.

Like, I can relate to a lot of my favorite white characters, but it doesn’t mean they were written in a way that was meant for audiences to make a direct connection with me. My favorite Disney Princess growing up was Belle because she loved to read and was an outcast of the small village she lived in. I grew up in a small, highly conservative town, had a white mom and a Black dad, and loved to read. All of those things combined made me a bit of an outcast too, but that doesn’t make Belle “poc-coded,” it just means I relate to her.

In order for a character to be “coded” as a person of a marginalized group, there has to be recognizable similarities to the marginalized group incorporated in the character’s design and characterization. Loki has none of those, so he’s not “poc-coded.”

In all of this, I’m not trying to be mean or say you can’t or shouldn’t relate to him. I’m just trying to explain how the term is being misused and the potential damage there is for misusing the word.