September 2012
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August 2012
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“One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties...”
– Noam Chomsky, “Media Control” (via siegfriedandfreud)
Three or four million Asians killed by the US — and three Southeast Asian countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) shattered for several generations — is nothing to US Americans, not even worth a footnote. In World War II, 20 million Chinese were...
July 2012
127 posts
“A 17-year veteran of the New York Police Department has been suspended without...”
– NYPD detective suspended after kidnapping victim found in his garage
of course no charges…everyone knows cops rampage with impunity
(via so-treu)
“The third white privilege that Tim Wise and other so-called white anti-racists...”
– Word to the Wise: Unpacking the White Privilege of Tim Wise
I will quote this whole article if I have to, but I will make sure each and every person who follows me reads this.
(via thelittlekneesofbees)
“{TW: Police Brutality, Suicide, Self Harm] After conducting interviews with a...”
– Invisible Prisoners: Why Are So Many Children, Especially Girls, Placed in Solitary Confinement?
(via loveyourrebellion)
This is what happens when juvenile justice is focused on keeping kids locked up & not helping them.
(via karnythia)
this is the kinda element i worked w. its inhumane. you...
TFI Daily News: Pop music too loud and all sounds... →
newstfionline:
By Chris Wickham, Reuters, Jul 26 2012 LONDON (Reuters)—Comforting news for anyone over the age of 35, scientists have worked out that modern pop music really is louder and does all sound the same.
Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down…
“You write a musical. It’s called “The Nightingale”. Based on Hans Christian...”
– An excerpt from Asian American writer Han Ong’s Facebook status essay, “The Nightingale Affair,” regarding the play “The Nightingale” being put on in La Jolla, Calif. by the creators of the Broadway musical “Spring Awakening.” Although the play is set in ancient China, the main character (the...
“South African runner Caster Semenya will carry South Africa’s flag at the...”
– Jorge Rivera, “Caster Semenya To Carry South Africa’s Flag In Olympic Ceremony,” Colorlines 7/26/12 (via racialicious)
a. bayani: The more I read about different kinds... →
lapalomaazul:
the more similarities i see. that’s why im really glad i married a brown man- even if he isnt latino he gets where im coming from and lets me do my treatments on him without complaining that they havent been proven in double blind studies.
when i was with him in his village i…
“This expectation for Asian American artists to represent one’s community...”
– So loving Terry K Park’s interview with Dr. Celine Parreñas-Shimizu about her creative life, her scholarship, and her latest book, Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies on the R today. (via racialicious)
Olympic Games' rules for testing athletes anger... →
pansexualpride:
On the eve of the Summer Olympics’ opening ceremonies in London, queer activists are up in arms over the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) “regulations on female hyperandrogenism,” which the Games’ governing body says are meant to determine whether athletes are eligible to compete in the female category.
“Intersex female athletes with elevated androgen production give...
They call me lady tiger, but I never eat my young:... →
thisiswhiteprivilege:
White privilege is “greatest —-” lists.
“Greatest movies” - mostly movies about white people.
“Greatest actors/actresses” - mostly white people.
“Greatest musicians” - mostly white people.
“Greatest authors” - mostly white people.
“Greatest books” - mostly about…
They call me lady tiger, but I never eat my young:... →
pag-asaharibon:
This is a brief list of interesting and thought-provoking facts about Asians in America that you might not know. It is by no means complete, but is meant to provide a jumping off point for thinking and learning about Asian American issues.
The first Asians whose arrival in…
