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remembervc:

Here is the event flyer! We would greatly appreciate your help in distributing it!

For all the New Yorkers out there.

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xoericxo:

Watch the entire documentary Vincent Who? online for free. Learn more about him and his legacy. Do not forget.

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It’s not fair.

Vincent Chin’s final words (via xoericxo)

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What kind of law is this? What kind of justice? This happened because my son is Chinese. If two Chinese kill a white person, they must go to jail, maybe for their whole lives…There is something wrong with this country.

Lily Chin (via xoericxo)

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xoericxo:

On June 19, 1982, Vincent Chin was enjoying his bachelor party at a club in Detroit, MI. Ronald Ebens, a white Chrysler employee who had recently been laid off, and his stepson Michael Nitz also happened to be there. Mistaking Chin for Japanese, they blamed “motherfuckers like you” for the loss of their job and, later, beat him mercilessly with a baseball bat. Before slipping into a coma, Chin whispered his final words: ���It’s not fair.” He died twenty-nine years ago today, on June 23, 1982.

Ebens and Nitz were arrested and tried for manslaughter. They were sentenced to three years probation, a $3,000 fine, and $780 in court fees. Neither man ever served jail time. The jury found “no racial motivation” for the murder.

Chin’s death and the lenient sentencing of his murderers led to a nationwide coalition of Asian American activist groups, becoming what journalist Helen Zia called a “watershed moment” for Asian groups throughout the United States. Where previously there had been separate groups for Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, etc., the death of Vincent Chin united Asian Americans to form a pan-ethnic coalition to protest the injustices and racism that Asians faced.

In recent years Vincent Chin has largely been forgotten among the general public. But we must remember him, his name, his legacy. Remember the tragedy of his death, but also the silver lining: the change that it has brought, and the change that is still yet to come. We must continue to carry on his torch and continue fighting for justice.

Bringing this blog out of hiatus for the 29th anniversary of Vincent Chin's death. Reblogging posts from my personal tumblr.

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Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to say you’re not a racist; not being racist — or a sexist or a homophobe — is a constant, arduous process of unlearning, of being uncomfortable, of eating crow and being humbled and re-evaluating. It’s probably hard to start that process if you’ve been told that every thought you have is golden and should be given voice, and that people who are offended by what you say are hypersensitive simpletons.

PostBourgie (via glamaphonic) (via monkeyknifefight) (via falulatonks) (via pikitis, meowsense) (via robot-heart-politics) (via sarcasmisdead) (via mry)

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codalion:

…I’m pretty sure most white people think Korea is like China with less bling, or like Japan with more difficult romanization.

Yes I am taking this quote completely out of context but it made me lol

WELL IT’S TRUE. Seriously, those ‘diversity’ chapters in...

Korea is the bomb though, people need to recognize! Who else could have given us the cultural phenomenon of SNSD? Oh, and I guess the food is pretty good, too.

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codalion:

...I’m pretty sure most white people think Korea is like China with less bling, or like Japan with more difficult romanization.

Yes I am taking this quote completely out of context but it made me lol

新年快乐 恭喜发财

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新年快乐 恭喜发财

Happy Lunar New Year, tumblrland!!

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My parents speak with two tongues My mother's tongue is Toisan My father's tongue is Cantonese The colonial language is English

Marilyn Chin, "The Colonial Language Is English"

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To Pursue the Limitless

To pursue the limitless With a hare-brained paramour To chase a dull husband With a sharp knife

To speak to Rose About her thorny sisters Lock the door behind you The restaurant is on fire

You are named after Flower and precious metal You are touched By mercury

Your birth-name is Dawning Your milk-name is Twilight Your betrothed name is Dusk

To speak in dainty aphorisms To dither In monosyllables Binomes copulating in midair

To teach English as a second Third, fourth language

You were faithful to the original You were married to the Chinese paradox

美言不信 信言不美

Beautiful words are not truthful The truth is not beautiful

You have translated "bitter" as "melon" "Fruit" as "willful absence"

You were mum as an egg He was brutal as an embryo Blood-soup will congeal in the refrigerator

You are both naturalized citizens You have the right to a little ecstasy

To (二) err is human To (五) woo is woman

Mái mā     Buried mother Mài má     Sold hemp Mǎi mǎ     Bought horse No, not the tones but the tomes

You said My name is Zhuang Mei      Sturdy Beauty But he thought you said Shuang Mei      Frosty Plum

He brandished his arc of black hair like a coxcomb He said Meet me at the airport travelator His back door was lovelier than his front door

A smear of bile on your dress Proved his existence

-Marilyn Chin

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Three new book purchases

Can someone please confiscate my credit card?

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legalizetrans:

I hope you won’t mind posting this: It’s important to get Queer info out!

Hey Everyone; I know many of you may not appreciate this sort of spamming but it’s important to get queer information out and i know MANY individuals follow this tumblr.

My name is Sinia Rodriguez & I’m a co-chair for this years’ Queer People of Color Conference, which is being held at UCR [University of California, Riverside] in April (8th-10th)!

The Theme for this year is Decolonize Your Mind.

We are currently in the process of looking for workshops! If there’s something you would love to present, or something you’re sad you’ve missed in the past, then this is the time to do it! 

Take this opportunity to:

1. Inform a community with something of importance to you!

2. Practice your presentational skills

3. Meet other individuals with similar interest

4. Get involved with something that inspires change, empowerment & Growth

Please relay this info to others :)

http://www.qpoccucr.org/

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NPR has this great interview with Sandra Cisneros, one of my favorite authors and an important figure in Chicano/a literature, and David Rice, author and filmmaker. Both Cisneros and Rice have very interesting things to say about the importance of storytelling and writing about one's experiences, as well as the evolution of Chicano/a literature and their feelings on contemporary lit.

Ms. CISNEROS: Well, I think I wrote "House" precisely because I wanted to give my truth, my version. At the time that I wrote "House," in the - around the end of the '70s and the early '80s, I was reading Chicano literature written by men. And a lot of the literature that was coming to me was written by people in the Southwest.

I didn't have the urban experience. If I read about the urban experience of Latinos, it might be the Nuyorican experience. And I felt that it was a very different world than mine, especially a different reality written by men. And I wanted to write about the woman's point of view of living in the barrio.

There seemed to be a glorification of the barrio by the men, and I felt that there was issues in the barrio that I wanted to bring to light, that I needed to bring to light - not only for my own story, but I was a high school teacher. I was a very powerless highs school teacher at an alternative high school, and the girls I was teaching, their stories resonated with me to such a degree that I had to do something so I could fall asleep at night.

And I started weaving their stories into a neighborhood I remembered from my past, and that's how "House" came about. I truly wanted to tell the stories of these young women and my point of view as a woman, too.

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Mr. RICE: When I was a kid, there was no, that I read, Mexican-American literature or Chicano literature. And so I didn't know it existed until I was 23 years old. I'm 46 now. And I was in a plane on Southwest Airlines, flying, and I read an in-flight magazine that had Rolando Smith-Hinojosa's story about a snowman down in - down in the valley in Mercedes, Texas, where I'm close to.

And so that's the first time I saw that a Mexican-American could write a story about his or her home. And the Rio Grande Valley where I'm from, head count is only 2,000 people. It's a very small town 18 miles from the border. And so it was very rural.

And when I read that story, I realized, hey, you know, I could write about my home. And my home does have validation. Where I'm from is important.

And so that's what gotten me started writing that first story, and then, of course, reading other books. I read Sandra's books. I read Duguel's(ph) books, Gary Soto, Rudolfo Anaya, a bunch of other writers.

And then I realized: Hey, anyone can write, you know, and just had to sit down and do it.

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Check out this interview with Minh-ha T. Pham of Threadbared about her blog/curatorial project, Of Another Fashion:

It’s true that the glossies continue to be glaringly white and while this is an issue that I’ve discussed at length in my other blog, Threadbared (co-authored with Mimi Nguyen), Of Another Fashion is only indirectly concerned with this problem.

The exhibition and the blog are more specifically responses to the curatorial and critical neglect of the sartorial histories of women of color. When you consider written fashion histories and fashion museum exhibitions, women of color – if they appear at all in these sites – are visually or discursively represented in so-called ethnic costumes. An exhibition depicting the fashions of the Roaring ’20s or the Swinging ’60s, for example, is unlikely to show women of color in flapper dresses or miniskirts. But why not? Not only were non-white women living in the U.S. throughout its entire history, they were just as influenced by fashion as white women. But you’d never know this if you only only looked to major fashion exhibitions and magazines for your history.

Of Another Fashion intends to remedy this historical amnesia. By highlighting the fashion histories of women of color in the U.S., the exhibition and the blog are reminders that the history of American fashion, and indeed the history of America, includes women of color and that glamour, beauty, and style-consciousness are not the exclusive properties or concerns of white women.

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NO MATTER BLACK, WHITE OR BEIGE CHOLA OR ORIENT MADE

Oh, Lady Gaga, honey, no. I love you, but you cannot be a white girl and write "chola" and "orient" into the very same line.