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saba-hussaini

Dua for Palestine 🤲🏻 🇵🇸 🤍

menelaiad

just cried so hard at this that i actually nearly threw up

i-am-a-fish

I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars

sevdahalma

honestly it’s less about marjane satrapi and persepolis and more about how that’s the only narrative the western world views as factual or even worth reading

same thing with authors like khaled hosseini. their works show one perspective, a perspective in a sea of different experiences, one that conveniently paints western imperialist agendas in a positive light and even more conveniently becomes the only narrative ever published for western audiences

you can acknowledge someone’s experiences, but you should always ask yourself why, for example, books like this became required reading in many schools alongside other writings meant to shape your opinion a certain way about a certain region and religion

safije

marjane satrapi was an open zionist and khaled hosseini was welcomed by george w. bush at the white house. Hosseini wrote in his fictional book Kite Runner:

"There are only three real men in this world, Amir," he'd say. He'd count them off on his fingers: America the brash savior, Britain, and Israel. "The rest of them--" he used to wave his hand and make a phht sound "--they're like gossiping old women."

In Baba's view, Israel was an island of "real men" in a sea of Arabs too busy getting fat off their oil to care for their own. "Israel does this, Israel does that," Baba would say in a mock-Arabic accent.

#i remember being made to watch persepolis in school lol #as a post-end of year exam school-is-ending activity #even though we are generally a harmonious country #watching such stuff always made me uncomfortable as a muslim #because it's just the portrayal of islam as oppressive and backwards #while we hardly if ever are made to watch such content with regards to other religions #it's like when you're a muslim minority and the non-muslims encounter such oppressive examples #for some reason you are expected to explain such behaviour #when literally what's that got to do with me lmao

#some durian content to bless your feed #non-aesthetic because i'm not a photographer #although this is from last year #that's one of my favourite desserts which I have not had for a very long time #towards the end of durian season last year I finally got to make that with my grandmother lol #yes durian is expensive #although it also depends on the variety #durian #might delete later

daily-dragon-drawing

Could us Southeast Asians have a durian dragon?? spiky boi!!

#73 - 榴蓮 (liúlián / durian) - He might smell a bit strange but he's really a sweetheart ☀️🍈💛

spookylightwhispers

we may not have the four seasons but at least we have durian season

#the only season worth celebrating #durians are here baby 💃🏼

dadihadi

we were doing oral exercise in spanish class where we had to describe a picture. It was a picture of a man and a woman and a child in a living room. my teacher said el es divorciado and the entire class gasped and she was like what's the big news and i think that very aptly summarised the difference between the east and the west

#so she said one possibility is the woman is his girlfriend #look creativity is nice but sometimes you don't need to be too creative #no asian would look at a picture of a seemingly happy family and go this guy is divorced #what the hell 😭#damn this has been sitting in my drafts for so many years #das crazy

catchymemes

thataboonoor

mankind hasn't been given a lot of knowledge on the nature of the soul, but i remember hearing that souls are warm, because when a person dies their body goes cold

the heat actually radiates from your soul

spookylightwhispers

this is where i come in and put on my nerd girl glasses. we may not have been given much knowledge but the knowledge is all around us if only we took the time to actually analyse and study what has been given to us. language.

conceptual metaphor theory!