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I’ll be your executioner…

The Glory (2022) | Dir. Ahn Gil Ho

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新宿ボーイズ | SHINJUKU BOYS (1995) dir. Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams In the glitzy Shinjuku neighbourhood of Ni-Chome, the elegantly dressed hosts of the New Marilyn Night Club pour champagne and charm female guests. ‘Each customer thinks we’re her special boyfriend, but they’re fooled,’ explains one host, Kazuki. ‘Thats how we do business.’ But the employees of New Marilyn are all onabe, Japan’s transgender men, living a lifestyle not openly accepted by society while running an elaborate business that caters to its lonely core. (link in title)

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One of my new favs, love seeing trans experiences in various cultures

#pride#trans cinema
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Asian Heritage Month Book Reccomendations

Fiction 

Its events take place in the fifth century AD between Upper Egypt, Alexandria  and northern Syria, following the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire, and the ensuing internal sectarian conflict between the church fathers on the one hand, and the new believers on the other hand, declining paganism.

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul’s richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique.

In his romantic pursuit of Fusun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul’s upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being.

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. So begins the slow unravelling of Su Lan: a woman determined to remake herself, an ambitious physicist and ambivalent mother who becomes consumed by her research into disproving the irreversibility of time. Following Su Lan’s sudden death, her daughter Liya travels from the US to China to try to understand the silences and ghosts her mother left behind. Adrift in a country she doesn’t know, Liya begins to piece together how her mother’s obsessive desire to erase her own past has marked the lives of those around her, and Liya’s own.

his is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt).

Non-Fiction 

Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of women from the ganglands is an Indian 2011 non-fiction crime novel written by Hussain Zaidi with original research by reporter Jane Borges. It tells 13 true stories of women who were involved in criminal activities in Mumbai. 

 I highly reccomend watching Gangubai which follows the story of Gangubai Kothewali who fought for the rights of orphans and sex workers in Mumbai during the 60s. It is on Netflix.

This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes, soldiers, professionals and entrepreneurs of the 19th and 20th centuries. Rozina Visram examines the nature and pattern of Asian migration; official attitudes to Asian settlement; the reactions and perceptions of the British people; the responses of the Asians themselves and their social, cultural and political lives in Britain. This imaginative and detailed investigation asks what it would have been like for Asians to live in Britain, in the heart of an imperial metropolis, and documents the anti-colonial struggle by Asians and their allies in the UK. It is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins of the many different communities that make up contemporary Britain.

Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Hiroshima Nagasaki tells the story of the tragedy through the eyes of the survivors, from the twelve-year-olds forced to work in war factories to the wives and children who faced it alone. Through their harrowing personal testimonies, we are reminded that these were ordinary people, given no warning and no chance to escape the horror.

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture and is shaping the modern world. This region, the true centre of the earth, is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself began, where the world’s great religions were born and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections, but networks that linked continents and oceans together. Along them flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. This was where empires were won and where they were lost. As a new era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising again.

I am not going to lie, I had all the books and reviews written but I deleted that post when I went to post it so here are the books with synopsis I got from Waterstones because I am too lazy to rewrite. 😃👍

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Tita Likes to Say

by Helena Donato-Sapp

You are probably wondering what a Black girl has to say at an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month event.  Long story short, I am Filipina through adoption — my Papa is Filipino and my Dad is white.  My birthparents are Haitian immigrants.   My first word was “gatas” — the Tagalog word for “milk.”  Our extended Filipino families live close to us.  Since Dad’s family is far away in West Virginia that means I have spent holidays with my Filipino family, and also birthdays and christenings and funerals and weddings.  If your family is anything like mine, they make every excuse to get together and celebrate, so there are so many parties throughout the year!  I have grown up with lumpia and pancit and ox-tail soup and adobo and lechon and ube ice-cream.  So much food, and so much mahjong!!  The fact is, you can’t tell by looking at someone what all of their intersectional identities are and, so, I stand before you as a proud Filipina.  I represent a lot of people who have many intersectional identities.

            My poem has a tough message.  It’s about mixed messages.  Before I share it with you, it is important for me to say how much I love my Titas, my Filipina aunts.  I have spent a lot of time with them, and in so many ways they raised me in our wonderful Filipino culture.  Which is exactly why I was inspired to write this.  Tough things need to be said and I am not afraid to say them.  This poem goes out to all aunts and titas of all colors and ethnicities.  Everyone has a Tita.  Also, in spite of the title, the message also goes out to Titos and Uncles, really to all of our families.  In my poem, I refer to one Tita who represents them all.  So here goes…my poem is titled “Tita Likes to Say.”

Tita Likes To Say

I don’t ever remember a time without Tita.

She might even have taught me my very first word, 

Gatas which means milk in Tagalog.

As a baby, she held me tight in her arms.

As a toddler, she made me giggle 

and loved to see me dance into the New Year

when at the stroke of midnight

she threw handfuls of two-dollar bills into the air

to catch for good luck.

Tita is fun and full of laughter.

Tita loves to cook and host parties.

“Eat!  Eat!  Eat!” she insists — “Sige, na. Kain na!” — 

as she fills your paper plate with a heap of steaming rice.

At the parties I learned that it was polite to go for seconds

to show Tita how much you love her food. 

But also at these parties, Tita likes to say, “Tumataba ka na.”

“Taba,” means fat in Tagalog.

Therefore, Tita likes to say, “You’re getting fat,”

Before and after all that food.

She says it ALWAYS.

Honestly, I hear it said all the time.

In all the parties, in all directions.

Almost like a greeting,

A rude “Hello.”

No one is spared.

Pinsan my Cousin isn’t spared.

Tito my Uncle isn’t spared.

Kuya or Ate isn’t spared.

Lolo or Lola isn’t spared.

I am not spared.

The sad thing is, Tita doesn’t spare even herself.

Lola says that it is just part of “the culture.”

Tito says it’s just a joke because she says it with a laugh.

And they all swear that it is harmless.

But none of that is true for me.