May 2013
33 posts
A 75-year-old Pakistani Muslim man killed by a... →
Detectives appeal for witnesses after Mohammed Saleem, 75, was stabbed to death as he returned home from local mosque
GLAMBOREE 2013
Come to this great event this weekend in Montreal! Please signal boost!
Le français suivra May 25, 2013, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. Café l’Artère 7000 avenue du Parc (Parc metro, 80 bus) GLAM (LGBTQ Asians of Montreal) presents a fabulous night of films and performances from some of Montreal’s best LGBTQ Asian artists. The line-up includes: Eisha Marjara & Atif Siddiqi (film) Shaina (music) Sherwin...
"Forging Our Own Identities: A Mixed-Race... →
by Sam Alexander
I feel uncomfortable. To not fit into the identities that society has created for me means perpetual discomfort at best, and marginalization, erasure, and attack at worst. Binarist thought has deprived me of a true sense of belonging, and I will no longer tolerate that shit.
I am gender-queer. I am a radical, women-loving, feminist, sex positive, queer, dyke. I collect these...
Tranny Power: Step Off: Trans women of color own... →
trannypowah:
TW: transmisogyny, racism, violence directed at camab trans people of color
There is a place in this world full of horror, untranslatable. Here, in the midst of violence inconceivable, we struggle. Would you envy us, if you knew?
As trans women and camab trans people of color, we inhabit a…
finding the asians not studying tumblr and being...
myparentsareimmigrants:
if you don’t know about it, this article has been around for a few years now but it never ceases to displease.
Soooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrryyy! :D
Also, we love your tumblr.
In sol,
Asians Not Studying.
Cambodian Factory Collapse Keeps Spotlight on... →
On Monday, local police in Bangladesh called off the search for bodies in the rubble of a garment factory building that had collapsed. After nearly three weeks of searching, authorities had recovered a staggering 1,127 bodies, making the tragedy the worst accident in the global garment industry’s history. Today, we’re again counting bodies after the industry’s latest fatal...
“I love the word ‘desi.’ It is so beautiful. I can go around saying it over and...”
– Vijay Prashad - “Smashing the Myth of the Model Minority” (via literatureisboss)
Is it Fair for Chefs to Cook Other Cultures'... →
We published this about a year ago. Still a good post so will repost!
Last week, the New York Times published a piece by me entitled “Cuisines Mastered as Acquired Tastes.” In it, I tried to explore how American-raised chefs learn to cook the food of immigrant cultures, and why they so often become more successful than the immigrants themselves. I admit the article started in my head because I...
Pakistan elections: how Nawaz Sharif beat Imran... →
Lucy Liu Talks Candidly About Racism And... →
This piece by s.e. smith originally appeared on xoJane.com
One of my favorite US actresses, Lucy Liu, is in Net-A-Porter’s Graphic Issue, which has me all kinds of excited. Because the only thing better than watching Liu at work is seeing her in fantastic frocks and reading interviews with her; she often has sharp, insightful comments on Hollywood and acting, while remaining quite modest and...
The Ground Beneath Her Feet: My mother, one of... →
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tgbhf:
My mother, one of twelve children, was born in Nanaimo, B.C. to Fun Gee Wong and Hone Hung Mah, both of Canton, China. My grandfather emigrated to Canada to work as a farm labourer. Mom left school at the
age of 12 to work and support her family. In 1935, she moved to
Toronto and later…
Knowing Coves: The Racist Myth of MSG and 'Chinese... →
zuky:
This is the story of a racist myth that began with a light-hearted letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 and subsequently exploded in North American culture — in direct opposition to every shred of scientific evidence — becoming so prevalent that credulous eaters buy into it to…
Apologies for being busy - SUBMIT!
Hey all,
I have been hella busy for the last month with a death in the family and work and have fallen behind in posting important stuff about the Bangladeshi factory collapse & Pakistani elections, etc. As such, I was hoping that y’all could submit articles or things that have caught your eyes for recent and current events.
Thank you so much for your patience!
Hong Kong Dockers Claim Victory →
A 40-day strike of more than 500 dockworkers at the Port of Hong Kong ended yesterday with a settlement that included a 9.8 percent wage increase, non-retaliation against strikers, and a written agreement, all of which had been fiercely resisted by the four contractors targeted in the strike.
Strikers accepted the offer by a 90 percent vote.
The four contractors also agreed to work through...
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Ching Shih: A Cantonese prostitute pirate queen... →
Ching Shih
March 18, 2011 by Maggie McNeill
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. - Timothy Leary
To start with, Ching Shih (1775–1844) was only her stage name; it simply means “Widow of Zheng”. Her real name and her history prior to 1801 are completely unknown except for the fact that she was a prostitute in one of the famous floating brothels of Canton. She was captured in a...
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Parneet is Miss... →
Happy MAY DAY!
Parneet is Miss May
I. am…
I am queer.
In that, I am undefined.
Yet I continue to exist.
Locating snapshots of myself in others.
Those that reflect even a sliver of me, illuminate my very existence.
I am queer.
Out of that, I become strange.
Estranged by others who wish to erase the being I choose to embody.
Desperate leaps to alleviate their own...
April 2013
25 posts
Word to the Wise: Unpacking the White Privilege of... →
“My friends, I have come to tell you something about slavery – what I know of it, as I have felt it. When I came North, I was astonished to find that the abolitionists knew so much about it, that they were acquainted with its effects as well as if they had lived in its midst. But though they can give you its history – though they can depict its horrors, they cannot speak as I can from...
Go Ahead and Reset the Counter on 'Days Without a... →
Lambda Theta Delta, UC Irvine oldest and largest Asian-American fraternity, has found itself the source of the latest scandal involving the employment of blackface by non-black college students.
It Took Two Whole Days for a Random Muslim to Get... →
A Palestinian woman said she was assaulted while taking a late morning stroll with her baby daughter and friend by a man who accused her of being a terrorist. We thought someone would’ve been publicly attacked and berated for secretly planning the Boston Marathon bombings within hours of the explosions, but nope racists managed to contain themselves for two days. Bravo.
Boston Marathon Bombing Fallout: Bangladeshi Man... →
eastlondoner:
In an incident that echoes the 9/11 backlash in New York City, a Bangladeshi man was assaulted after the Boston Marathon bombings by four men in the Bronx on the mistaken assumption that he was an Arab.
The New York Post reported that 30-year-old Abdullah Faruque, who was born in Bangladesh but grew up in the Bronx, was having dinner at a Bronx restaurant Monday night when three...
Scholarship Opportunity 2013
The Foundation to Commemorate the Chinese Railroad Workers in Canada (FCCRWC) is a registered charitable organization. The goals of the foundation include promoting the understanding and awareness of the contribution to Canada by the Chinese Railroad Workers who participated in the construction of the first transcontinental railway (the CPR) that united Canada geographically and politically;...
The Saudi Marathon Man →
A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb.
A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his...
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Mix’d Drinks: Hybrid Vigour - On Idealised Faces,... →
Mix’d Drinks is a series of conversations between mixed folks over drinks. You can check out Yun Ching’s & An Li’s other posts. The great things about these experiences was that even though we talked about some heavy stuff, we were laughing throughout the conversation. Check out last week’s Part 1!
Yun Ching: My mom would tell me stories about how she would tape her eyelids before she...
Earthquakes: Powerful 7.8 Earthquake Hits Iran... →
A death toll in the hundreds is expected following a massive earthquake in southeast Iran near the border of Pakistan on Tuesday. Measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, the quake is the country’s largest in decades, and its tremors reportedly caused buildings to sway as far away as New Delhi and Qatar.
“It is okay for us to mourn over Boston, and over Baghdad as well, and at the...”
– Neha Ray
Stop dismissing tragedies, all tragedies, and/or policing people’s concerns about the outcomes.
(via neharaysays)
Angry Asian Girls United: Confession: →
notablyindigo:
I’ve always fucking hated the Patil twins. I dished death glares by the handfull to grade school motherfuckers who asked me if I wanted to be “paaar-vaaaa-teeee” in their Halloween group costumes. Man, fuck that noise. JK Rowling spared, I’m sure, no more than 5 minutes in…
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Mix’d Drinks: Hybrid Vigour – On Idealised Faces,... →
Mix’d Drinks is a series of conversations between mixed folks over drinks. You can check out Yun Ching’s & An Li’s other posts. The great things about these experiences was that even though we talked about some heavy stuff, we were laughing throughout the conversation. Stay tuned for Part 2 next Tuesday! We promise Part 2 won’t be as long!
Yun Ching: This week we decided to talk about...
