yellow yell-oh!

[pluralisms]

What made me decide to make [Spirited Away] was the realisation that there are no films made for that age group of ten-year old girls. It was through observing the daughter of a friend that I realised there were no films out there for her, no films that directly spoke to her. Certainly, girls like her see films that contain characters their age, but they can’t identify with them, because they are imaginary characters that don’t resemble them at all. With Spirited Away I wanted to say to them ‘don’t worry, it will be all right in the end, there will be something for you’, not just in cinema, but also in everyday life.

Hayao Miyazaki (via pluralisms)

[blankmenu]

Eating @ my 2nd fav Ramen Joint- Marutama (chicken base soup)

Must order their Char Siew. Best in ramen joint in Singapore.

[rpou-deactivated20220801]

:O

[yellowgen]

this is KILLING me. too much.

[radtransfem]

The duty to present respectably and avoid stereotypes is only laid on the oppressed. Dominants manage their image as a class; individuals can’t (mis)represent them.

source (via radtransfem)

[corinnestark]

I tried to register to vote three times when I was in college. Each time I failed to pass the “literacy" test. Only after the passage of the Voting Rights Act was I registered, and thank God Almighty, my parents voted as well. They were not activists but ordinary folks who wanted the same rights as the white people. Today, I feel the scabs coming off the old wounds and they are bleeding again. I knew people who were asked how many bubbles are in a bar of soap, or how many grains of sand are in a quart jar as part of their literacy test. I remember that the names of those who attempted to register were run in the local newspapers so that, by law, any registered (read white) voter could challenge their moral fitness to become voters. The real reason was to publicize who they were so their employers and Ku Klux Klan neighbors could take actions against them for having the nerve to think they should have the rights reserved for whites. So much of our focus is on what the law did to help to emancipate generations of African Americans. However, the deep scars are still there in the form of emotional trauma (some friends of mine suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome), loss of family to death, broken dreams, ruined lives, and consigned once again to second and third class citizenship. This is why I mourn today because the conditions for so many have not changed that much. Moreover, the gains we won continue to erode as we see in the dismantling of the most important piece of legislation on racial equality of my lifetime.

Civil Rights Veteran and SNCC Member Joyce Ladner addressed the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights decision. (via legolaswhisperingelvenprayers)

[meyong]

[wordsthatwillremain-deactivated]

Madame Esther Quek, Group Fashion Director of The Rake and Revolution magazines (Middle East).

BOSS LADY! 

[paradelle]

I want to be her.

[peaceshannon]

god, if only i had the face for that hair… as it is, i need to cover as much of my face as possible to look decent TT

[yellowgen]

I've definitely blogged photos of this person before, but gotta reblog... So dashing!

[yellowgen]

a telling fb convo between friends on "progress," time, and civil rights

D: I feel frustrated with how the progress of civil rights is so tenuous.

K: You don't need to experience things to know that, you just need to know history.

D: Yeah, but then people always try to say, 'times have changed'--

K: HAH, times have changed? You mean, 'We have iPods now!'

[yellowgen]

We’re Here, We’re Queer and We Look Real Cute - COLORLINES

Five fashion designers who are putting the dandy back in gender queer.

YES

[yellowgen]

Will China Legalize Gay Marriage Before the United States?

Gay marriage in China could prove to be both socially and politically valuable for that country. More so, the stigmas gays face in America aren't as pronounced as they are in China.

okay, so the title is kind of stupid. its an attention grabber, but the content beyond the first paragraph is really where the important information is. look at the huge difference in political discourse surrounding gay marriage in the u.s. versus in china. "harmony" versus "human right."

[arrdeearr]

[blindjewwanderinginthedesert-de]

(Image Description: three images in the series. 

Image 1: There is a man and a woman standing with an ice-cream cone. The Ice-cream machine pops out three balls of ice-cream and the man snags all three. When he is eating them, the woman slips in for the fourth. The man breaks down crying, “Misandry.”

Image 2: The man is still crying, “The feminazi stole my ice-cream!”

Image 3: The man now drowning in tears, “I am laid low by the matriarchy.”’ The word ‘DESPAIR’ is written across the background)

  This amuses me to no end! 

[peaceshannon]

the video, as well as the artist’s explanation and dialogue about the video, is also worth a look.

[yellowgen]

lololol i'm LOVING this

[peaceshannon]

While economic development triggered a human rights discussions on gender equality and other issues, sexual minorities were excluded, a fact underscored by an utter lack of statistics on LGBT people.

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Stories shared by human rights activists show how homophobia can spin out of control.

One situation, included in a 2005 survey by the Human Rights Commission, involved a father who walled up his daughter into a room to prevent her from meeting other lesbians, forcing her mother to feed her through a small hole. In a case documented by the Korean Sexual-Minority Culture and Rights Center, a college student let a male student rape her for a year after he threatened to out her as a lesbian. …

An area of particular concern has been the military, which defines homosexuality as a “sexual identity disorder” and punishes sexual acts between people of the same sex. Activists say that gays who seek help in adjusting to military culture do so at a risk of being outed. Jeong Yol, 35, an activist of Solidarity for LGBT Human Rights of Korea, says his sexual identity was revealed in the military when another soldier read one of his personal letters. When rumors began to circulate, Jeong admitted he was gay; his commander sent him to a psychiatric hospital run by the army. “They conducted HIV testing without my consent and insulted me using hateful words. They literally kicked me,” he said.

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Gay rights activism consolidated in the 1990s, waging community-building efforts and those to dispel myths about LGBT people in the media, which sensationalized stories about sexual promiscuity. Groups also fought laws that prohibited access to gay and lesbian websites.

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Much of the activism today works toward securing equal rights in the military and employment sectors, including a push for the country to introduce comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation. This particular battle, however, has triggered a vehement response from the far-right, particularly the over-powered Protestant church, which recently killed the latest efforts to introduce an anti-discrimination law.

good article on the status and struggles of sexual minorities in korea

[sandstressandsea]

(via The Best Restorative Yoga Poses to Relieve Stress [INFOGRAPHIC] | Greatist)

[whatwhiteswillneverknow]

How to use your white privilege

If the “passing privilege” person is looking at this blog, this is one thing you can do, if you’re up to it.

[muddypetticoats]

Reblogging for excellence.

[yellowgen]

things to think about.

[franklolk]

[lookbookdotnu]

[genderfluidity]

Bisexuality and pansexuality can mean a variety of things for each person; it is not so simple as 2 genders versus all genders. Words are more than their Latin translation; words have uses, meanings, and histories. There are pansexuals who wouldn’t define themselves as being attracted to all genders; why, then, the hyperfocus on bisexuality? One person said that they were uneasy with the word “bisexual” because it connotes hypersexuality; are pansexuals, then, supposed to be pure saints with bisexuals the animalistic sinners? How is this not biphobic?

I personally prefer “bisexual.” No, that doesn’t mean that I love only cisgender people, or only men and women (to all of those saying that bisexuals can’t love trans* people, you are actually being cissexist). To me it means similar and different; being able to move in both gay and straight spaces while being estranged in both. To me it means not being gender-blind; it means gender-encompassing. The word “bisexual” has a history, a community, and a movement. It’s been stigmatized again and again, and we’ve been reclaiming and revitalizing this word for a while. Please, however you identify, don’t define your identity at the expense of another. Don’t use biphobia. 

[todaysdocument]

May 9, 1942: These California farm families are preparing to evacuate to internment camps, as documented by photographer Dorothea Lange.

Centerville, California. Farm families of Japanese ancestry awaiting the evacuation buses which will take them to the Tanforan Assembly center along with 595 others evacuated from this district under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 34. 05/09/1942

Dorothea Lange, photographer. From the Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.  You can find our past posts on Japanese American Internment & Relocation under the #Japanese American Internment tag.

[projectqueer]

Against Equality: Projects for Queer Futures

Against Equality is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. As queer thinkers, writers, artists and activists we are committed to dislodging the centrality of equality rhetoric and challenging the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage, the US military, and the prison industrial complex via hate crimes legislation.

The rhetoric of equality is so pervasive and all consuming that it creates a vacuum in which there is no space or time to even consider that other ways of being in the world are imaginable, let alone possible.  The instance on inclusion in systems and institutions that were explicitly designed for our disposal and cannot simply be retrofitted is the logic of futility and hopelessness.  Gay inclusion and participation in the US Military, for example, does little to challenge the racist and exploitative impulses of an imperialist nation state that globally inscribes people of color as sites of exploitation and colonization.  Queer friendly imperialism is still imperialism nonetheless.

We launched our digital archive of written texts and visual culture to challenge the reductive rhetoric of the gaystream equality campaigns and in hopes of opening up time and space to have the difficult conversations necessary to envision a queer world that departs from these old systems and logics.  Since the launching of our digital archives, the project has grown rapidly to include the work from nearly fifty different authors, artists and organizations.

In addition, Against Equality has launched a facebook group, sticker campaign, participatory art-postcard project, and in the coming months will be launching a book dedicated to overthrowing the gay marriage milieu.  To join the conversation or check out the latest projects check us out online at www.againstequality.org.

We must rupture the queer here and now and reinvigorate the queer political imagination with fantastic possibility!  Our queerest futures depend on it!