Mongolia Nomadic Tribes Stand With Standing Rock Sioux And Water Protectors
The first complete draft script of Disney’s live-action feature film The Legend of Mulan was just leaked. We’d normally be jumping for joy, but turns out it centers Mulan’s story around a white man who travels to ancient China and rescues our hero. And although Disney has hired new writers to rewrite the story, the entire writing team is still white. We grew up on the 1998 animated classic that featured Mulan as the empowered, feminist heroine of Chinese folklore. And that’s the Mulan we want.
#MakeMulanRight: Tell Disney to ditch the white savior plot and to do one better: hire an Asian American writer to add to the team. Sign our petition here: http://action.18mr.org/makemulanright/.
A white merchant's business brings him to the heart of a legendary Asian conflict -- he unwittingly helps save the day while winning the heart of the Asian female. Am I describing the plotline of the Netflix series Marco Polo? No. I'm describing the spec script that Disney bought for its live-action feature film, The Legend of Mulan, which is projected for release in 2018.
it hurts that British indenture history isn’t taught in India/South Asia - that 85% of the time when I tell South Asians that I’m from Guyana, no matter their age or gender or immigration history, they have no idea where it is and/or had no idea there were South Asians (and other Asians) in the Caribbean. That percentage is likely an underestimate.
Our present-day stats (South Asians currently in the Caribbean as a result of indentured servitude):
- 625,000 in Trinidad and Tobago
- 327,000 in Guyana
- 148,443 in Suriname
- 61,500 in Jamaica
- 60,000 in Guadeloupe
- 43,600 in Martinique
- 19,276 in French Guiana
- 12,000 in Grenada
- 6,000 in Belize
- 5,900 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- 400,000 Indo-Caribbean people in America, just from Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, where statistics are difficult as they are often classified as Black, Asian, and mixed
- 25,000 Indo-Trinidadian people in the UK, with Indo-Guyanese and -Jamaican statistics unknown
In all, more than 2 million. Other estimates say 2.5 million in the Caribbean alone are of Indian descent (although this would include other migration events).
Plus:
- 460,000 in Fiji
- 882,000 in Mauritius
3-4 million. Read up. This is your history, too.
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Additional links about Indian Indenture System:
- Indentured labour from South Asia (1834-1917)
- Indentured Labor and the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean
- Indian indentured labourers
- Indians Overseas A guide to source materials in the India Office Records for the study of Indian emigration 1830-1950
It’s no secret that Hollywood has an Asian-American erasure problem. William Yu’s solution? John Cho. Yu created the above posters to show that Hollywood already has viable Asian American stars in its ranks — filmmakers just need to use them. John Cho is far from the only one.
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We’re on the headline of HuffPost’s Arts and Culture column!
Montreal’s own, Hua Li 化力 ! Great video!! <3
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This is why I love the Chinese language.
White People Whitesplain Whitesplaining | MTV Decoded
Ever try to politely tell someone that you don’t need to them to explain YOUR experience for them? Ever wonder why someone needs interrupt you to explain how the world works for YOU? Then you may have been Whitesplained! Yup. It happens, even to Franchesca on this week’s episode of Decoded.
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda conjure a dark fantastic adventure set in an alternate 1900s Asia
"The world of Monstress is one that has been torn apart by racism, slavery, by the commodification of mixed race bodies that produce a valuable substance that humans require like a drug. Even if you look human, you might not be safe. It’s a familiar story to people of color in this country, and in the last four or five years I’ve found myself deeply immersed in the study of identity and race, especially in the Asian American context."
Speculative Fiction Reads by Asian and Asian-American Authors
*Original credit to Carrie Cuinn’s list where I got most of these titles from her website*
A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories by Eliza Victoria - Award-winning author Eliza Victoria mixes magic with the mundane in this special concoction of 16 short stories. A girl meets a young man with the legs of a chicken. A boy is employed by a goddess running a pawnshop. A group of teenagers are trapped in an enchanted forest for 900 days. A man finds himself in an MRT station beyond Taft, a station that was not supposed to exist. A student claims to have seen the last few digits of pi. Someone’s sister gets abducted by mermaids.
The Fragipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith - Based on traditional Vietnamese ghost stories told to the author by her Vietnamese grandmother but updated to reflect the contemporary ghost of the Vietnam War, here is a mesmerizing collection of thematically linked stories, united by the first and last story of the collection.
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki - In Tokyo, 16-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.
Alice in Deadland by Maninak Dhar - Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it’s legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who survived- hordes of undead Biters. 15-year-old Alice has spent her entire life in the Deadland, her education consisting of how best to use guns and knives in the ongoing war for survival against the Biters. One day, Alice spots a Biter disappearing into a hole in the ground and follows it, in search of fabled underground Biter bases. What Alice discovers there propels her into an action-packed adventure that changes her life and that of all humans in the Deadland forever. An adventure where she learns the terrible conspiracy behind the ruin of humanity, the truth behind the origin of the Biters, and the prophecy the mysterious Biter Queen believes Alice is destined to fulfill. A prophecy based on the charred remains of the last book in the Deadland- a book called Alice in Wonderland.
Barrow by Bryan Thao Worra - The second book of speculative poetry by Laotian American writer Bryan Thao Worra, BARROW includes all-new poems as well as journals such as Whistling Shade, Northography and Tales of the Unanticipated between 1991-2009. BARROW continues an experimental journey across cultures and language to examine themes of multiplicity and meaning in an uncertain universe.
Mikey Recio & The Secret of Demon Dungeon by Budjette Tan - Mikey had other plans on his Holy Week holiday. Driving for his grandfather was not part of it. Nor did it involve running into a very unholy secret.
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri - Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold: the warring housewives on the first floor, lovesick teenagers on the second, and the quietly grieving widower on the top floor of the building. In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and wonders if he might actually be the god Vishnu, guardian of the entire universe. Blending incisive comedy with Hindu mythology and a dash of Bollywood sparkle, The Death of Vishnu is an intimate and compelling view of an unforgettable world.
The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss #1) by Marjorie Liu - Demon hunter Maxine Kiss wears her armor as tattoos, which unwind from her body to take on forms of their own at night. They stand between her and her enemies, just as Maxine stands between humanity and the demons breaking out from behind the prison veils. It is a life lacking in love, reveling in death, until one moment—and one man— changes everything.
Drifting House by Krys Lee - Set in Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee’s stunning fiction debut illuminates a people struggling to reconcile the turmoil of their collective past with the rewards and challenges of their present.
Escape from Arylon (Silverskin Legacy) - Megan and Ainsley have lived next door to each other their whole lives, but their relationship is anything but neighborly. Ainsley is the cutest, most popular guy in school, and even has a group of girls who call themselves his fan club. Outspoken and fiery, Megan is an individual who thinks Ainsley is full of himself-and she doesn’t mind letting him know what she thinks. The two stumble upon a neighbor who is performing some sort of strange magic, and find themselves transported into a magical new world. Stuck together in an unfamiliar land with no escape, Megan and Ainsley encounter floating cities inhabited by magical creatures of all kinds-and find themselves pursuing a thief who has stolen a staff with magical powers. Can Megan and Ainsley work together to find the staff of power and save the kingdom, or will they find that there is no escape from Arylon?
femme2femme4femme: a love story between twoc
This piece is dedicated to Alok, Atif, Betty, Brea, Eduardo, Jade, Kim, Prathna, Ruben, Sebastian, Shahir, Shaktii, Solange, Star, Trish and all the trans women and femmes of colour whom I have loved, whom I love, and whom I am yet to meet and yet to love.
This piece is also for you, Kai Cheng Thom, because without you, life and the world wouldn’t be possible.
[Picture by Alok Vaid-Menon, feat. Shaktii, Kama, Kai Cheng]
This is a love story.
This is a love story between two trans femmes of colour. They met in the late summer of 2011. The first time they met, One did a spoken word piece about what will happen to her body when she dies (the only part TheOther remembers from this piece is: “i will donate my penis to two lesbians…”), while TheOther sat there, in awe, in this now inexistent (thank you gentrification) POC community space of Montreal. After the performance, TheOther congratulated One with shy and intimidated reverence, and then pulled a 5-dollar bill from her wallet. This crumpled blue note with a wrinkled portrait of Wilfrid Laurier was all she had to cover her food for the next few days (she had just moved to Montreal, she didn’t have a job, she was broke like the milk teeth of a child who secretly ate chocolates in the middle of the night, and without this five-dollar bill, her pockets were only heavy with debts), but holymother, she couldn’t help it: she really wanted a copy of One’s poetry zine! That night, she went home and fed herself poetry for dinner, and when her hunger couldn’t be quenched, she looked up One’s videos on Youtube… still hungry.
This is a love story between two trans femmes of colour. The second time they met, it was also in this now inexistent (thank you gentrification) POC community space in the South West. This time, it was for a POC SISSY CATWALK! That night, after they had both sashayed their way to glory, they drank cheap beer and swayed their hips in unison while others vogued across the tiny, tilted dance-floor. They kissed, twisting their tongues like soft, wet, wrung-out silk, and they moved their bodies delicately against each other’s, their hearts listening hard to each other’s rhythms through their ribcage— a beat that they each seemed to recognize from long ago… They were surprised at the ease and familiarity of poc2poc love; there were no walls between their skins when they touched. That night, they exchanged numbers and promised to see each other again.
And they did see each other again…
This is magical and beautiful!
East Asian actresses in Western media. Inspired by the comments to >>THIS POST<<. (Feel free to add more!)
Smaug inspired dress - XuMing
“Chinese couturier XuMing 许茗 showcases her haute couture collection at the 2012 edition of China Fashion Week, heavily infused with a dragon-motif and with a focus on the white palette to bring out the focus on the intricate designs.” View More of Her Collection
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GET EM PRIYANKA!!!
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The way she looks at him though! Lmao if looks could kill.
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Latin Asians
Korean-Dominican? Chinese-Cuban? Almost a half a million Asian Latinos now live in the U.S, according to the last census, mostly in NY, Texas, and California. Reporter Tinabeth Piña explores how this ethnic mix proves that one should never judge a book by its cover!
I will always have THE biggest crush on Kristen Kish. Second woman to ever win Top Chef, model, queer Asian-American woman, all-around badass. Plus she always favorites/replies to my tweets. Ugh, what an attractive person !!
wow that jacket though
jaw drop
can this be my life?