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& what I loved most: she had so much soul.

[reclaimthebindi]

Here’s a masterpost of resources to aid in learning South Asian languages! This is by NO means comprehensive. A very limited number of languages are represented here. This search was really frustrating because the more I looked, the more I realized how many dozens of South Asian languages are simply not represented or their existence acknowledged. If you have any resources/languages you’d like to me to add, please let me know! 

Assamese iLanguage

Balochi Balochi Basics UChicago Resource List

Bengali Everyday Language Learner King’s College Resources Bengali Masterlist

Brahui Overview Common Phrases (1) Common Phrases (2)

Burmese Cornell Burmese Resources University of London Resources

Bumthang Grammar (1) Grammar (2) 

Chakma Mastersite

Dari King’s College Resources

Dhivehi General Overview Primary Grade Resources

Dzongkha Vocabulary Grammar

Dimasa Grammar

Dogri Overview

Halbi Script/Language

Hindi/Urdu WUSTL Hindi-Urdu Resources  HindiUrdu.net Hindi-Urdu Flagship Resources Columbia Hindi-Urdu Resources

Hindko Overview

Ho Swarthmore Resources Farsi Virtual Persian Resource Masterlist (1) Resource Masterlist (2)

Garo Overview

Gondi Mastersite

Gujarati King’s College Resources Language Reef Gujarati Learner Gujarati Masterlist

Gurung Video Series

Jingpho Grammar

Kannada UofIowa Resources Language Reef

Kashmiri Mastersite

Khams Tibetan Language Materials

Kharia Kharia-English Dictionary 

Khasi Learning Basic Khasi

Kurukh Kurukh Grammar

Kokborok Learn Kokborok

Konkani  Language Reef Literature Resources Common Phrases 

Lepcha Grammar (1) Grammar (2) Basic Phrases

Maithili Maithili Sentence Structure Background and Linguistics

Malayalam UofIowa Resources Common School Phrases

Manipuri  Common Phrases  Language Reef

Marathi iLanguage

Mishing Grammar

Nepali Nepali: Beginner’s Primer NepalGo NepaliLanguage.org UofIowa Resources Nepali Masterlist (1) Nepali Masterlist + MP3 Lessons (2)

Nyishi Grammar

Odia Resource Masterlist 

Pashto King’s College Resources

Punjabi LearnPunjabi.org King’s College Resources Shina Grammar Overview Grammar and Vocab

Sindhi Sindhi Masterlist

Sinhala  Sinhala Basic Course  AISLS Sinhala Studies Sinhala/Tamil Dictionary

Sora Swarthmore Talking Dictionary

Tamang Writing Tamang

Tamil  Tamil Reader/Grammar AISLS Tamil Resources

Telugu Learning Telugu UofIowa Resources Columbia Resources

Tibetan Emory Resources Tibetan Masterpost (1) Tibetan Masterpost (2) English-Tibetan Dictionary

Tshangla Overview

Tulu Common Phrases (1) Common Phrases (2) Common Phrases (3) Common Phrases (4)

Apps Mango Languages (Bengali, Dari, Dzongkha, Farsi, Hindi, Malayalam, Pashto, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu) Livemocha (Farsi, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu)  Duolingo (Hindi) 

Other Resources So You Want to Learn a Language? (has resources on a ton of languages!) Digital South Asia Library Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (this resource is awesome!) UChicago Recommended Resources Omniglot (has some basic info for a lot of languages) Languages of India Mastersite

[sharminultra]

The Bangladeshi Memory Project combines historical and contemporary media and narrative based archives of Bangladeshi people. This summer, we are organizing a public theater project with brilliantly talented Bangladeshi and South Asian diasporic organizers! 

We are building up towards an innovative process where we invite South Asian artists, creatives and social change makers to the table to contribute to this interdisciplinary project! We're looking for Bangladeshi artists, creators, writers, visionaries and changemakers who would like to collaborate! 

Are you a graphic designer? Singer? Documentarian? Painter? Actress? We'd love to collaborate with you! You can apply here! 

[glitterwurst]

All in Your Head is a traditional cut-and-paste style zine with a focus on LGBTQIA neurodivergent and disabled activists, zinesters, artists, and authors. Our zine operates on the following *principles: 1.) social inequality and injustice exists [racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, cissexism to name a few]; 2.) disability, neurodiversity can be understood as a viable form of human difference that intersects with/is shaped by systems of dominance; 3.) claims that there is a “normal” bodymind can have damaging and harmful effects (physically/emotionally/spiritually) and are partly shaped by current social/cultural values and white western colonial histories; 4.) neuroatypical people and people with disabilities must navigate cultural taboos, move among complex institutions and systems of care and negotiate conflicting ideas of “wellness/illness,“ “silence/disclosure,” “visibility/invisibility;” “dis/ability” and more  5.) most importantly, our stories matter. (*this list is by no means exhaustive) For the 2015 winter edition of All in Your Head, we invite you to share first person narratives, essays, rants, poems, doodles, drawings, photography, collages (and more!) that address the concept of “impairment.” We are seeking pieces that explore the theme “impairment” as it relates to disabled bodyminds and ways that queer neurodivergent, disabled folks encounter and resist cultural stigma and self-authorize our existence. We are seeking topics that address the follow themes (and others):

§  Queer “failures”, impairment as “failure” (intentional, unintentional?)

§  the SuperCrip (Eli Clare) 

§  “impairment” and progress narratives of healing and recovery

§  “impairment” as a bodily reality, “theory in the flesh” (This Bridge Called my Back, Moraga and Anzaldúa)

§  essays on the intersections of race, gender, and ability § disability, impairment and the contours of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, size etc

§  technologies and (assistive?) devices as they may co-create “impairment” stories (i.e.: cochlear implants; pumps, catheters, and chest ports; apps and hand-held devices to name a few)

§  impairment, self-care, advocacy, and activism

§  critiques of “disability,” “neurodivergence,” “impairment” as they are employed here or elsewhere

§  Have an idea not listed here? Submit anyway! It is a myth that you must be a “good writer” or “good artist” to submit to a zine. We welcome many kinds of writing and artwork!!

Send your submissions to [email protected] before December 30th, 2015. Please send your submissions via email. For written submissions, please use Microsoft word and submit your writing in .doc or .docx format. (Please try to limit submissions to 2500 words. We are flexible. Let us know if you need a little extra space.) For artwork, please attach high resolution .jpg images to your email. Please include a title for your artwork and any information you think would be pertinent for readers to know about your piece (medium, location, tools used etc). Contributors have the option of sharing a short bio or publishing their work anonymously.  IMPORTANT: Contributors should be willing to have their work displayed in another, accessible form of media alongside the traditional paper zine. We will have an experiential element incorporated into this project that extends beyond the physical paper zine itself. Thus, contributors should anticipate that their work may be read and translated/captioned in a video via youtube or vimeo or another internet venue. More details on this element to come. Email us with any questions. 

[sharminultra]

Compiled List of Bangladeshi Literature & Texts

Fiction & Poetry

❊ Dhaka Dust - poetry by Dilruba Ahmed (some selections here)

❊ A Golden Age & The Good Muslim - Tahmima Anam

❊ The Demon Slayers & Other Stories: Bengali Folktales - translated by Sayantani Dasgupta

❊ Folk Tales of Bengal - Lal Behari Day (full text available here)

❊ The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh

❊ Seam - poetry by Tarfia Faizullah

❊ Black Ice - Mahmudul Haque

❊ The Lovers and the Leavers - short stories by Abeer Hoque

❊ Of Blood and Fire - Jahanara Imam

❊ The Burrow - Manzu Islam

❊ Lajja – Taslima Nasrin

❊ Like A Diamond in the Sky – Shazia Omar

❊ Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray and The Select Nonsense of Sukumar Ray – Sukumar Ray

❊ The Ballads of Bengal - edited by Dineschandra Sen (full text available here)

❊ Writers of the Hungryalist Movement: Utpalkumar Basi, Binoy Majumdar, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Basudeb Dasgupta, Falguni Roy, Subhash Ghosh, Saileshwar Ghosh, Tridib Mitra, Alo Mitra, Arunesh Ghosh, Ramananda Chattapadhyay, Anil Karanjai, Karunanidhan Mukhopadhyay, Subo Acharya 

Science-Fiction

❊ Tomader Jonno Valobasa – Humayan Ahmed

❊ Nirudessher Kahani – Jagdish Chandra Bose

❊ Copotronic Sukh Dukho - Muhammad Zafar Iqbal

❊ Sultana’s Dream – Rokeya Sakhawat

Notable Writers: Nipun Alam, Ali Imam, Qazi Anwar Hussain, Altamas Pasha, Abdul Ahad, Anirudha Alam, Ahsanul Habib, Kamal Arsalan, Dr. Ahmed Mujibar Rahman, Moinul Ahsan Saber, Swapan Kumar Gayen, Mostafa Tanim, Vobdesh Ray, Jubaida Gulshan, Ara Hena, Amirul Islam, Touhidur Rahman, Zakaria Swapan, Qazi Shahnur Hussain

Non-Fiction/Academic Texts

❊ They Ask If We Eat Frogs: Garo Ethnicity in Bangladesh – Ellen Bal

❊ Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh - Elora Chowdhury (full text available here) 

❊ The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier – Richard Maxwell Eaton ❊ Needless Hunter: Voices from a Bangladeshi Village – Betsy Hartmann

❊ The Quest for National Identity: Women, Islam and the State in Bangladesh – Naila Kabeer

❊ Microfinance and its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh – Lamia Karim

❊ Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh – Lisa Knight

❊ Ami Birangona Bholchi (I, a Birangona, Speak) - Interviews with rape survivors of the Bangladeshi Independence War translated by Nusrat Rabbee

❊ Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 – Yasmin Saikia

❊ Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh - Elora Shehabuddin (full text available here) 

❊ 400 Years of Dhaka: Series from the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh on Dhaka, Beyond Urbanization and Urban Development – multiple volumes

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ghazal!

[youarenotdesi]

EAST COAST SOLIDARITY SUMMER (ECSS) is a weekend-long youth leadership and empowerment program. In summer 2015, ECSS will be held at Rutgers University, New Jersey, from July 24-26.ECSS provides a radical and inclusive space for youth of South Asian/Desi** heritage (including those of mixed heritage) to examine key social justice issues and take action! Past workshops have included topics such as identity, immigration, sexism, racism, mental health, and capitalism. The goal of the retreat is to engage participants in critical reflection, coalition building, activism, and organizing. We believe that a united, educated, and inspired collective of young activists and organizers is crucial to creating social change both locally and globally.

[listafeminista-deactivated20180]

Hi everyone, With the help of soyunacutre, I have created a list of zines about mental health that are available in PDF, please feel free to have a look at them and message me or reblog adding a comment if you want to suggest more. Let’s make this list bigger! :) Please be aware that I...

[blackdesisecrethistory]

Dalit Panther linked Black Power and Dalit organizing. According to Dalits and Human Rights (ed. Prem Kumar Shinde):

The Dalit Panthers were formed in the state of Maharashtra in the 1970s, ideologically aligning themselves to the Black Panther movement in the United States. During the same period, Dalit literature, painting, and theater challenged the very premise and nature of established art forms and their depiction of society and religion. Many of these new Dalit artists formed the first generation of the Dalit Panther movement that sought to wage an organized struggle against the varna system. Dalit Panthers visited “atrocity” sites, organized marches and rallies in villages, and raised slogans of direct militant action against their upper-caste aggressors.

Conversely, Dalits have sometimes been framed as “Black Untouchables” by African American internationalists — an act of solidarity through an imagined racial connection.

[undercommoning]

Afflict the comfortable. #BlackBrunchNYC #BlackLivesMatter #ShutItDown (images via MediaIte)

[justblackenough]

“More than 30 demonstrators staged events at restaurants such as Lallisse, Maialino and Pershing Square, Yahoo reported. The protesters, most dressed in black, read the names of African Americans killed by police punctuated with chants of “ashe,” a word from the Yoruba language of West Africa comparable to “amen.” Timed by participants, the ritual takes four-and-a-half minutes — since Michael Brown’s body was left on the street for four-and-a-half hours in Ferguson.”

[gofagyrself]

#blackbrunchnyc #blackbrunch #blacklivesmatter #whichsideareyouon

[undercommoning]

#BlackBrunchNYC #BlackBrunchOakland from an interview with Black Brunch organizers:

Black Brunch is saying no business as usual. Every day, Black people are murdered by police, and millions of other things, too. We’re not going to let people sit around and pretend this isn’t happening. One part of the violence that Black folks face is about simply being able to exist and be. We can’t just exist and be in public space because we’re thought of as threatening.

We were thinking a lot about historical tactics like the sit-ins that Martin Luther King used to do. We decided that we’d go into communities where people do not necessarily think about our pain, and take up space there. Our first action was going into the Rockridge neighbourhood, which is a predominantly white, pretty wealthy area. Not very inclusive to a lot of Black folks and people of colour.

We marched in this area, and we went into different establishments: restaurants, brunch spots, where people would be carrying on their usual business, and we went to interrupt that. In those particular communities where they’re surrounded by money, or they’re surrounded by white folks, they don’t have to engage with what’s going on in Black communities, and they can easily disassociate from that and pretend it’s not happening. So we say, no. We’re going to take up space in your community, let you know what’s happening outside this. We exist, and we’re here.

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[composerlost]

I’ve compiled this list of resources to help trans* people like myself. Even if you’re not trans* and/or can’t use any of this, please reblog for the sake of others. Thanks! Passing The Tumblr Transgender Clothes Exchange How to Take Measurements Reflectore Voice Pitch Tracker Masculinizing The FTM’s Complete Illustrated Guide to Looking Like a Hot Dude The Male Fashion Fit Guide AK’s Guide to Suits (this is a drawing guide, but contains useful info) Throat Exercise to Deepen Voice Big Brother Binder Repository & Re-Disbursement Program In a Bind Binder Donations Underworks Pullover Binders Les Love Boat Binders, Packers, Underwear, Shoe Lifts, Etc. Cheap Clasp Binder Discreet STP Device Feminizing Women’s Clothing Terminology Tucking How-to Guide Realistic Breast Form Tutorial The Breast Form Store Mastectomy Bras with Built In Flap for Breast Forms How to Contour and Highlight Using Makeup How to Apply Eyeliner with a Spoon How to Apply Foundation How to Apply Blush How to Apply Eyeshadow Emergency National Suicide Prevention Lifeline IMAlive Online Crisis Network Transgender Housing Network Legal National Center for Transgender Equality Transgender Law Center Change your Name for Free - Civil Indigent Status (Tumblr post) Copwatch Infographic Guide Medical Transgender Surgeons in the U.S. Center of Excellence for Transgender Health FTM Hormone Guide FTM Surgery Guide MTF Hormone Guide MTF Surgery Guide Mcalc Gender Neutral Menstruation Calculator Mental + Support Online Gender Therapy (can also issue letters of recommendation) Emotional Baggage Check TransSpace Reddit School + Education Trans Student Equality Resources Study Abroad for GLBT Students Applying to College as a Non-Binary Trans* Person Additional Resources Susan’s Place Transgender Resources and Forums Laura’s Playground Transgender Resources

[slopaganda]

Amra Ki Etoi Bhinno (Are We So Different) - A documentary on gay, bisexual, and hijra communities in Bangladesh.

"The film talks about a range of masculinities and the impact on peoples’ lives, and about how different people have unique experiences of coping and surviving in Bangladesh, often ruled by strict masculine and patriarchal ideals. The stories of those who challenge these structures and notions are told in this film in their own words."

[decolonizingmedia]

Decolonize Your Reading List: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) [x]

[sharminultra]

And then watch Concerning Violence to visualize the white supremacy, the christian supremacy, the violence of slavery and the mental impacts of postcolonial neocolonialism. 

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