i'm t.: queer, latina, cis, able-bodied, chubby, woc. bad at this whole self-introduction-thing, but wrote up a post nonetheless. linked down below.
woah, new followers
were are you all coming from O.o
nice to see you tho.
as always, anyone feel free to call me out on my shit.
also do drop by for chit-chat. always in for that.
Beyoncé for Vogue Italia (August 2011)
Decolonization in my heart and my machete
ACZ1008 HYNIX YACBA21S
“After this I go to work at a pizza shop. My wife and I were college professors in Bangladesh. I taught accounting. But one dollar in America becomes eighty dollars when we send it back home.”
… ouch. right in my immigrant feels.
selections from Ancestral, Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree, Blackfoot)
Ancestral explores the idea of heritage through a combination of portraits and self-portraits. Using late 19th century historical images of various Aboriginal men and women, the images were digitally projected onto the subject. The idea is to take historical bodies by inserting them into the present, bringing together old and new, as a way of looking at the past through the present.
foxes enjoying themselves (x)
you’re welcome
i can’t deal with this
16-Year-Old Egyptian Scientist Finds Way to Turn Plastic Waste Into $78 Million of Biofuel
What Azza proposes is to break down the plastic polymers found in drinks bottles and general waste and turn them into biofuel feedstock. (This is the bulk raw material that generally used for producing biofuel.) It should be noted that this is not a particularly new idea, but what makes Azza stand out from the crowd is the catalyst that she is proposing. She says that she has found a high-yield catalyst called aluminosilicate, that will break down plastic waste and also produce gaseous products like methane, propane and ethane, which can then be converted into ethanol.
John Cho – on the infantilization of Asian Americans
from Oliver Wang, “The Game-Changer: An Interview With John Cho,” Asia Pacific Arts 7.3.2009) <http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/090703/article.asp?parentID=110145>
APA: Last question…for Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Viva La Union recorded a song for the soundtrack with the line, “I want my own Chinese baby” — what’s that about?
JC: When I was thinking about it, I thought of a literal baby. There’s a kind of lack that children fill, that’s just the dark side of being a parent, I think. And there’s an accessory quality to Chinese babies in America, and I just think it’s funny. I just liked it. And you know, I would know people who would fawn over Asian babies more, and it got me to thinking, there’s this belief that Asian babies are really cute, and it got me thinking that our whole race is infantilized to some degree, and it manifests itself in different ways. You infantilize a woman, and she becomes eroticized. You infantilize a man, and he becomes emasculated. You infantilize a baby [laughs] — and it’s possible, it appears that you can infantilize a baby even more. [laughs] The babies need to be cuter than white babies. And it’s just a weird thing that I felt like said something about mainstream America’s relationship to Asians in general. So that’s where it came from.
PETITION FOR GINA TORRES TO PLAY WONDER WOMAN
BECAUSE
AND ALSO
JUST
LET ME JUST SAY
IF YOU DON’T ALREADY THINK THIS WOMAN IS AN AMAZONIAN PRINCESSYOU ARE DOING IT TOO WRONG FOR WORDS.
ahhhhh fuck please
OMYGOD YES
YES PLEASE
NO ONE WOULD MAKE ME HAPPIER
