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theshadowofyoursong: theyellowbastard: “The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics, is hopeless.” —Hayao Miyazaki One of my very favourite recurring themes in Miyazaki’s work - especially in Spirited Away - is how the grotesque and initially threatening reveals itself to be benign and even compassionate. It’s so beautiful, and a lot more meaningful than the typical good-evil/black-white dichotomy of other mythology.

theshadowofyoursong:

theyellowbastard:

“The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics, is hopeless.”

—Hayao Miyazaki

One of my very favourite recurring themes in Miyazaki’s work - especially in Spirited Away - is how the grotesque and initially threatening reveals itself to be benign and even compassionate. It’s so beautiful, and a lot more meaningful than the typical good-evil/black-white dichotomy of other mythology.

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todaysdocument:

The stories in these records are a direct consequence of the Chinese Exclusion Act, approved May 6, 1882:

riversidearchives:

Records of Chinese Deportees, 1912-1920

These records are part of a series of forms processed as individuals were deported under enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act.  Each record in this series, which is dated around about 1910-1920, usually includes a physical description of the person and an indication as to where he was deported to and the ship on which he was sent.  Some of the records also indicate further reasoning for the deportations and additional information about the individuals.


The men pictured are Fung Lock and Kim Jow.  Both certificates are dated in January 1913.


Observing Asian-Pacific Heritage Month

To pay tribute to the many generations of Asian-Pacific Americans that have enriched our nation’s history, the National Archives at Riverside will be highlighting some of our holdings relating to Asian American history in our region (Southern California, Arizona, and Clark County, NV), including records relating to enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, records relating to Japanese internment and relocation, and many more. 

For more information about Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, see http://asianpacificheritage.gov/

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this started out as a music blog, after all

this started out as a music blog, after all

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goldenphoenixgirl: EVERYONE needs to know this. This is how nearly all abusive relationships play out, nearly all of the time. It’s very, very common and very important.  Bear in mind that “violent outbursts” can also mean mental/verbal abuse, shoving or holding someone down, throwing things at the person or threats. Usually, this cycle worsens and worsens throughout the relationship. The violent episodes last longer and longer and the honeymoon phase gets shorter or may disappear completely, leaving the relationship bouncing back and forth between tension and explosions.  Please reblog if you think your readers could be helped by this?

goldenphoenixgirl:

EVERYONE needs to know this. This is how nearly all abusive relationships play out, nearly all of the time. It’s very, very common and very important. 

Bear in mind that “violent outbursts” can also mean mental/verbal abuse, shoving or holding someone down, throwing things at the person or threats.

Usually, this cycle worsens and worsens throughout the relationship. The violent episodes last longer and longer and the honeymoon phase gets shorter or may disappear completely, leaving the relationship bouncing back and forth between tension and explosions. 

Please reblog if you think your readers could be helped by this?

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humansofnewyork: I found this man on 7th Avenue in Park Slope. He was leaning heavily on his cane, looking down, wearing a grimaced face. I felt bad for him, so I smiled and waved when I walked past. His face changed completely. He lit up, smiled wide, and gave me a cheery greeting. There was nothing forced about it. He seemed like a man who went through life looking for the smallest excuses to be happy.I walked 50 feet down the sidewalk, turned around, and walked back to him. “I want to take your photo,” I told him, “because of how big you smiled when I walked by.”He said: “Well I saw someone smiling at me who I didn’t even know. So I thought: ‘By God! I Better do something!’”

humansofnewyork:

I found this man on 7th Avenue in Park Slope. He was leaning heavily on his cane, looking down, wearing a grimaced face. I felt bad for him, so I smiled and waved when I walked past. His face changed completely. He lit up, smiled wide, and gave me a cheery greeting. There was nothing forced about it. He seemed like a man who went through life looking for the smallest excuses to be happy.

I walked 50 feet down the sidewalk, turned around, and walked back to him. “I want to take your photo,” I told him, “because of how big you smiled when I walked by.”

He said: “Well I saw someone smiling at me who I didn’t even know. So I thought: ‘By God! I Better do something!’”

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remember sinead?

3 October 1992: O’Connor appeared on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest. She sang an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s “War”, which she intended as a protest over the sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, by changing the lyric “racism” to “child abuse.”[21] She then presented a photo of Pope John Paul II to the camera while singing the word “evil”, after which she tore the photo into pieces, said “Fight the real enemy”, and threw the pieces towards the camera. [22]”

REDDIT: history (trigger warning).

YOUTUBE: “she was 10-15 years ahead of the corporate media finally reporting the Catholic pedophile scandal, and for that she was crucified…..”

RACHEL MADDOW: Sinead O’Connor Interview on Sex Abuse Scandal, 4/23/2010

∑ all christian religious institutions, colonization, and treatment of people of color and the disenfranchised are indelibly linked. anyone who thinks they can separate institutionalized christianity from racism is fooling themselves. peach out patriarchy

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cosmic dilemma

cosmic dilemma

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पद्मिनी: “Within colonialism, such as now practiced in my own country of...

“Within colonialism, such as now practiced in my own country of Hawai’i, violence against women of color, especially our Native women, is both the economic and cultural violence of tourism, and of militarism. It is the violence of our imprisonments: reservations, incarcerations, diasporas. It is the violence of military bases, of the largest porting of nuclear submarines in the world, of the inundation of our exquisite islands by eager settlers and tourists from the American and Asian continents. These settlers have no interest in, or concern about, our Native people. Settlers of all colors come to Hawai’i for refuge, for relaxation. They do not know, nor do they care, that our Native government was over thrown by white sugar planters in 1893 with the willing aid of the American troops; that our islands were annexed in 1898 against the expressed wishes of our Native people; that our political status as Hawai’ian citizens was made impossible by forced annexation to the United States.””

— Haunani-Kay Trask, “The Color Of Violence” 

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Growing up, I was the perfect abducted daughter. Good, smart, considerate. I had a close relationship with my abductive parents, and I felt like I really loved them. So hearing them make comments like, “Our daughter is so obedient, it must be in her genes!” and listening to my abductive family use words like “Oriental,” “Chinaman,” and “China doll” to describe me and other Asians seriously sucked. I would try to argue with them about this shit, but challenging them was pretty impossible. Kids aren’t supposed to question their parents, especially transracially abducted kids who have so much to be thankful for.

Since I couldn’t make my abductive parents stop using racist language, or argue with the grown-ups in the family about why they shouldn’t perpetuate fucked up racist stereotypes, I ended up feeling kind of responsible for it. I remember being so ashamed because I thought people who heard my abductive parents say racist shit or saw them using their white privilege to push people around would assume that I supported that. And although this rarely happened because of the superwhite town we lived in, I felt like other people of color who saw me with my abductive parents hated me because it was like I was hanging out with the enemy (and liking it).

Because my abductive parents isolated me from other people of color and maintained complete silence around issues of racism, I was forced to internalize an incredible amount of racist bullshit, including feeling guilty for upsetting my abductive parents with “accusations” of racism. After all, they were just these nice people who did a wonderful thing by taking in an unwanted Korean baby. I didn’t really enjoy being the object of their humanitarian efforts, and what amounted to some really twisted racist love, but that didn’t matter. I was supposed to appreciate it.

“We’re doing the best we can to teach our adopted Korean daughter to be proud of her multicultural heritage, including her Korean ancestry. Now our family celebrates Korean New Year, and we’re planning to travel to Korea with our daughter when she is older.”

– via transracial abductees (via of-praxis)

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One L. Goh, a Korean-American man with roots in VA, shoots up Oakland school. The obvious intersection of post-colonialism (hypermasculinity, orientalism) and bullying in America is unfortunately coming to a head through a pattern of school shootings. Reference material on orientalism in America: Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 Edited by Holly Edwards http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6792.htmlThinking Orientalism | American Popular Culture, Fiza http://chowrangi.blogspot.com/2009/12/thinking-orientalism-american-popular.htmlThe Influence of Orientalism on American Perceptions and Politics in the Middle East, Hamid Kbiri, Major, Royal Moroccan Air Force http://www.scribd.com/DEBUNKER/d/12070695-The-Influence-of-Orientalism-on-American-Perceptions-and-Policies-in-the-MiddleEast and the original:Orientalism, Edward Said, which everyone should read if they are curious at all about how cultural misunderstandings could hypothetically lead to the beginning of WW3 very soon.

One L. Goh, a Korean-American man with roots in VA, shoots up Oakland school.

The obvious intersection of post-colonialism (hypermasculinity, orientalism) and bullying in America is unfortunately coming to a head through a pattern of school shootings.


Reference material on orientalism in America:

Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 Edited by Holly Edwards http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6792.html
Thinking Orientalism | American Popular Culture, Fiza http://chowrangi.blogspot.com/2009/12/thinking-orientalism-american-popular.html
The Influence of Orientalism on American Perceptions and Politics in the Middle East, Hamid Kbiri, Major, Royal Moroccan Air Force
http://www.scribd.com/DEBUNKER/d/12070695-The-Influence-of-Orientalism-on-American-Perceptions-and-Policies-in-the-MiddleEast
and the original:
Orientalism, Edward Said, which everyone should read if they are curious at all about how cultural misunderstandings could hypothetically lead to the beginning of WW3 very soon.

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sun ra: “planet earth can’t even be sufficient without the rain; it doesn’t produce rain. sunshine; it doesn’t produce the sun. the wind; it doesn’t produce the wind. all planet earth produces is the dead bodies of humanity. that’s its only creation. everything else comes from outer space, from unknown regions. humanity depends on the unknown.” from a joyful noise (1980) (photo via radiochantier)

sun ra: “planet earth can’t even be sufficient without the rain; it doesn’t produce rain. sunshine; it doesn’t produce the sun. the wind; it doesn’t produce the wind. all planet earth produces is the dead bodies of humanity. that’s its only creation. everything else comes from outer space, from unknown regions. humanity depends on the unknown.”

from a joyful noise (1980)

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massive-ness

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Growing up, I was the perfect abducted daughter. Good, smart, considerate. I had a close relationship with my abductive parents, and I felt like I really loved them. So hearing them make comments like, “Our daughter is so obedient, it must be in her genes!” and listening to my abductive family use words like “Oriental,” “Chinaman,” and “China doll” to describe me and other Asians seriously sucked. I would try to argue with them about this shit, but challenging them was pretty impossible. Kids aren’t supposed to question their parents, especially transracially abducted kids who have so much to be thankful for.

Since I couldn’t make my abductive parents stop using racist language, or argue with the grown-ups in the family about why they shouldn’t perpetuate fucked up racist stereotypes, I ended up feeling kind of responsible for it. I remember being so ashamed because I thought people who heard my abductive parents say racist shit or saw them using their white privilege to push people around would assume that I supported that. And although this rarely happened because of the superwhite town we lived in, I felt like other people of color who saw me with my abductive parents hated me because it was like I was hanging out with the enemy (and liking it).

Because my abductive parents isolated me from other people of color and maintained complete silence around issues of racism, I was forced to internalize an incredible amount of racist bullshit, including feeling guilty for upsetting my abductive parents with “accusations” of racism. After all, they were just these nice people who did a wonderful thing by taking in an unwanted Korean baby. I didn’t really enjoy being the object of their humanitarian efforts, and what amounted to some really twisted racist love, but that didn’t matter. I was supposed to appreciate it.

“We’re doing the best we can to teach our adopted Korean daughter to be proud of her multicultural heritage, including her Korean ancestry. Now our family celebrates Korean New Year, and we’re planning to travel to Korea with our daughter when she is older.”

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