Recently, there have been incidents of hate speech towards Asian[/american]s on campus.
No, actually, that’s completely wrong. Let me correct myself.
Recently, there have been community organizing, university-wide alerts, and activist-led attempts to raise awareness and foster discussion about the most recent incidents of hate speech towards Asian[/americans] on campus.
okay, so i’m watching Skins and i can’t remember caring this much about what characters did with themselves since… mayyyybe jesse two seasons ago on Breaking Bad. maybe.
i can’t even retain the original title of this post (“no, no, no, no”) because, while i’m torn up about that last episode i watched and am having all the tragedy feelings about it, i also totally get it in that nothing makes rational sense when you’re seventeen years old and, jesus, why should it?
i’m team sid and i’m definitely team cassie. this show’s actually making me feel like i can’t be both at the same time. (i’m in season 2 land.) oh god, i’m experiencing cognitive dissonance of the heart + hormones+ supposed wisdom!
“Taxi, Singapore, Ohio” is up on the latest issue of Guernica, and you can read it here. I’m super honored and grateful to be included!
Dear B.,
Over the weekend we hosted friends and they brought this game with them. After a couple of rounds I remembered our conversation in which you told me how awesome the Battlestar Galactica game you’d played was, and we all enthusiastically decided to play Pandemic with a Cylon among us.
The best part was when I went in the other room to make up the slips of paper for the drawing cup and had to fight the urge to secretly make three out of four of the slips Cylon ones.
with love,
L.
| Thor: | Watch your language. Loki's my brother. |
|---|---|
| Black Widow: | He killed eighty people in two days. |
| Thor: | He's adopted. |
In November 2011, the White House launched the “What’s Your Story” video challenge, asking the AAPI community to submit videos about the “issues that matter the most” to them. The Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders office received over 200 submissions and narrowed it down to 10 videos the public could vote on. But the video with the most votes (by a landslide) was ignored in the end.
The film that earned the highest numbers of votes, “My Asian Americana,” looks at the intersection between the criminal justice system and immigration. The video features a dozen men and women talking about being deported to a country they don’t know and what they remember and miss from the United States.
This video is amazing. Two of the things it’s about are love for one’s country, and the resulting complications of what is meant when we say things like “one’s country,” and most importantly, “your country.” As I return from going in to work today to fill out Immigration and Naturalization Services work authorization paperwork for the Nth time this afternoon, despite having just entered my second year of citizenship and having worked for this particular company since 2007, the subject of what we mean when we talk about citizenship and how such language (and language in general) affects real Americans’ lives and experiences of belonging/un-belonging has been on my mind yet again. This prose caption doesn’t do justice to what can be learned from the video, because although I have my American identity challenged and/or denied on a constant basis, I have the privilege of living in the place that I recognize as home, as many of the featured here do not. If I leave to spend time in Singapore (or, “my country”, as the graduate school insists on calling it), I can come back. I can come home.
What does it take to be an American? And when we talk about freedom, one of those big building blocks on which the entire concept of America is based—for whom is freedom a privilege, as opposed to a right?
(Source: colorlines.com, via asiansnotstudying)
I’m seriously considering paying someone to format my MFA thesis for me. The formatting requirements that are panic-inducing to me are things as simple as a 2” top margin necessary for every new titled page, and 1” top margins for every page of carried-over text without a title. Also, consecutive page numbers that don’t show up on every page. If that makes you hesitate before recommending that anybody work for me, full disclosure: I’m not an idiot. I’m just really terrible at some invisible technological systems that would be self-evident to most other people. Yes—a word processor is an inscrutable technological system in my world. But I am reasonably generous, fair, and grateful. Get at me if you are someone or know someone.
Art Nouveau Doors <3
(Photos uncredited as I collected them on my hard-drive a long time ago!)
These are so awesome!
If I ever opened one of these I would 100% be expecting Narnia on the other side. Also, tattoo central, my goodness…
(via tinyfistjab)
opening passage of the hobbit
opening passage of the bible
opening passage of twilight
opening passage of mice and men
…And this, my friends, is one piece of what canonization looks like in real time.
In Central Asia, hunting animals using golden eagles is an ancient, male-dominated sport. But 25-year-old Makpal Abdrazakova is the first woman in Kazakhstan who has taken the tradition to new heights.
(Source: Chicago Tribune)
JUST LOOK AT THEM.
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