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My last issue with Itaewon Class deserves it’s own post so here goes: 

Hyun Yi should be played by a trans person.

In order to have good transgender representation in media as well as gay representation in media, it’s important to cast gay and trans people.

I love Lee Joo Young and she’s doing an amazing job as transgendered Hyun Yi. She’s my favorite character. And I know that the progress that the United States and Europe has made with transgender identity in the media is much different than the progress that South Korea has made. I know that being gay or trans is still very unaccepted in South Korea and I’m proud that Itaewon Class has a transgendered character that it’s trying to do right by. I do feel like they are doing the best they can with the stigma surrounding trans rights in South Korea. I have no idea the danger it would put on a trans person to play this part. Whenever k-dramas have a gay character I scream with joy, but I wish openly gay people could play these roles.

Obviously South Korea isn’t there yet. I hope this is the start of them thinking about what it means to have a gay or trans character and who should be cast in these roles.

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How to reconcile the obvious desire for women’s liberation with the fact south asian and east asian feminists are just so transphobic

we have no need to make excuses when movements attack their most marginalised constituents. these are not monarchs to be sworn fealty to, there is nothing to reconcile here, they are social processes we criticise and engage with. we need to recognise the material conditions that make these feminisms take these paths, the constitutive ways imperialism and racism heighten local transmisogyny etc. the terfs in the west are not disconnected from these processes. this is urgent and necessary work as transphobia kills.

this is not some exotic and impossible problem, savarna feminists in india obscure dalit feminisms, bourgeois feminists obscure working class feminisms, carceral and anti sex work feminisms have always dogged the project. personally, i think this is the price of any movement that cuts across such a broad swathe of people.

elevate the ones who aren't transphobic. trans women of colour do excellent activism and scholarship and atleast in india are quite recognisable. see grace banu. even on this website you can find trans women from india (@/taliabhattwrites) and south korea (@/rui-cifer) writing critically about popular transphobic feminisms in their country.

you can also choose to distance yourself from the project if you want and hitch your horse to another movement and view women's liberation part of transforming the relations of production or power so on.

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My daughter Sally is only one and half year old and has lived most her life in a war zone. She gets scared when she hears the bombing, and puts her hand on her heart and cries. I am sad and my heart breaks when I see my daughter in this state 💔.

No child should grow up hearing the sound of bombs. Every child has the right to live a decent life and feel safe in it.

You can help give Sally the childhood she should have, where she can sleep in a safe bed at night ..

https://gofund.me/a5ea5130

This is not what I wished for. I dreamed of a wonderful life to spend with her... a life not filled with death, fear, destruction and deprivation... I wanted to fill her room with toys and her closet with clothes, and I wanted to buy her children's books, but I couldn't... The war came and the wishes disappeared... My goal became to provide food for her. I can barely afford anything. Everything is expensive and we no longer have the income to buy her needs. She was deprived of many of her basic needs. She was deprived of safety and stability... no fruits, meat, milk nor Baby diapers !!

I hope that every person who sees this video, if you cannot help us stop the war of extermination against us, then donate to us even a little to try to protect our daughter. If you are not able, then your interaction with it by liking, commenting or reblog will help us to reach people who can donate or help. Thank you for your sympathy and generosity 🤗🙏❤️..

Your donation, no matter how small, can make a huge difference in our lives. We desperately need your support and solidarity during these difficult times. Your donation can give us some hope and give my children a chance to live a better life ❣️🌱..

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🚨 !! DONT SKIP !! donations urgently needed 🚨

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I'm Anas Basil, a recent high school graduate with dreams of pursuing a degree in e-business management and building a career. However, due to my family's financial hardships, I enrolled at Khan Younis Training College (KYTC), affiliated with UNRWA. Sadly, the war has turned the college, once a beacon of hope and education, into a shelter for displaced families, stripping it of its educational purpose.

I completed high school with a 93% average, filled with excitement about continuing my education and securing a job to support my family. But like so many others, the war has shattered those dreams.

My younger brother, Ahmad, is 14 years old and currently in the third grade of preparatory school. We’ve always called him "Doctor of the Future" because of his intelligence and natural talent in mathematics. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing war, he has been deprived of schooling for the second consecutive year. In addition to his academic abilities, Ahmad has a passion for football and used to win tournaments.

Our Life in Displacement: The war forced our family to flee to Rafah, where we lived in a tent for several months. Each day, my brother and I would wake up to fetch water, gather wood, and light a fire to prepare food. Survival became our daily task, but we never gave up hope. The conflict affected us deeply, but it did not extinguish our dreams of education and a better future.

🚀 How Your Donation will Help us:

We are seeking €29,000 to help Ahmed and me leave Gaza, continue our education. More importantly, it will allow us to support our family, who have been deeply affected by the harsh conditions and skyrocketing costs of living due to the ongoing war in Gaza.

We've outlined how your donations will make this possible. You can find all the details in the campaign link below.

👉 Donation link: 🔗https://gofund.me/32e5e95e

Your contribution will not only help us escape the war-torn reality we live in but also give us the opportunity to rebuild our futures.

Every donation, no matter the amount, brings us one step closer to our goal.

With deepest gratitude, Anas & Ahmed

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‼️EMERGENCY FUNDS: I need Help With Medical Bills and Equipment ‼️

In December 2020 I was hospitalized and had to have emergency surgery where I had to stay at home for the entire period of my illness without working, and I also had DKA aka Diabetic ketoacidosis is a serious complication of diabetes that occurs when your body produces high levels of blood acids called ketones.

In the picture, the devices you see are the ones that are needed to control my diabetes.

Diabetic ketoacidosis develops when your body cannot produce enough insulin. Insulin normally plays an important role in helping sugar (glucose), the main source of energy for your muscles and other tissues, enter your cells. Without enough insulin, your body begins to break down fat as an alternative fuel. This process produces a buildup of toxic acids in the bloodstream called ketones, eventually leading to diabetic ketoacidosis if left untreated.

Three months later in March 2021 I finally got to see an endocrinologist, who specializes in Type 1 Diabetes. Who told me that an insulin pump would be a good device for me?

I was recently approved for an insulin pump that will help me better control my diabetes. Although I am happy that I am approved the hardest part is coming up with the funds to pay for the pump and equipment.

📎 paypal link

📎Goal:$120/$340

A donation of any amount will be greatly appreciated even if you can't donate but if you share the story against friends It will help. Thanks to anyone and everyone who is willing to help.

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Help Khalid Sisters in Gaza not to be Homeless

Hello Dear,

We, (Najwa, Jana, Farah, and Maryam), are the sisters of Shaheed Khalid Saed Ash-Shawwah, who was martyred on 07/31/24 along with Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul and his colleague, photographer Rami Al-Rifi . Khalid was our older and only brother and he was a great support for us and others. As you may heard Khalid’s story in the news, he was bombed while he was riding his bicycle coming back from delivering food to our old and injured neighbors.

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Before the IDF forces killed our brother Khalid, they forced us to evacuate our house and left everything behind. They then destroyed our house and our father’s restaurant. We had to move at least 10 times since every new area we seek refuge to gets bombed.

Currently, the 4 of us and our parents, are living devastating and sad life in a bombed room in Gaza. It is extremely difficult for us to get the basic needs of food, water, and shelter.

We sincerely hope you can empathize with our dire situation and consider supporting us. We are raising funds in order to be able to pay the rising cost of basic necessities in north Gaza. Our family is large and the cost of survival in north Gaza is astronomical. If you have anything you can spare, we implore you to support us. From where you are right now, you personally can help save our lives in north Gaza.

Please donate and/or replog 🥺🙏🇵🇸

Please reblog our post, follow us @khalid-Sisters and boost our posts, and repost the link to our campaign across all your social media.

Your generosity has the power to make a significant difference, and will give us hope that there will a better future waiting for us once the war stops.

We ask God to bless you and your families and to protect you all from all calamities and to never make you feel or go through what we are going through.

@olagaza @tahseenkhazen

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🚨 Help Us Escape the Devastation of War 🚨

Hello, everyone.

My name is Mohammed Abu Swierh, and I’m writing to you from Al-Nuseirat, Gaza, where my family and I face unimaginable hardships. My wife and I are raising our three beautiful children: Mira (6 years), Bakr (3 years), and Maria (1 year). But our once peaceful lives have been shattered by the relentless conflict that has plagued Gaza for about a year. 💔

Our home, which once held so many dreams, is now damaged beyond recognition. Every day, our children live in fear, surrounded by destruction, without the safe place for our children to grow up. The war has stripped them of the freedom and childhood they deserve. Instead, they are growing up in a world filled with fear, uncertainty, and despair. 😔

After many sleepless nights and countless prayers, we’ve come to the heartbreaking decision that we must leave Gaza. We are hoping to build a safer, better future for our children, a future free from war and filled with hope.

But we can’t do it alone. Here’s where you can make a life-changing difference for our family:

$20,000: To cover the expenses of leaving and rebuilding our lives in a safe country.

$19,000: For a year’s worth of rebuilding our life, housing, food, and essential living costs as we adjust.

$1,000: To cover transaction and fundraising fees.

We humbly ask for your help. No contribution is too small, and every dollar brings us closer to giving our children the chance to grow up in peace. This is more than just a financial plea, it’s a call to save a family from the grips of war. 🙏

Your generosity can be the light that leads us out of this darkness. Please consider donating and sharing our story with those who may want to help. ❤️

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Tahseen Starving Children Call for Your Support Amid Crises

Hello Dear

My name is Tahseen Khazendar from G@@7_@, P@1_e$tine . As you are reading my message, my wife, 3 little children, and I are sitting in the north of G@@7_@ City, starving with no food, water, or money. Specially my older son, Ibrahim, who suffers from the Celiac disease and needs a special food which I am not able to provide for him at this current time in G@@7_@. I struggle every single day to secure 1 single meal for my children. Every morning, My wife and I feel heart broken and disable, when our children wake up asking us for food which we don't have and unable to provide to them.

Once the aggression started on our city, we were forced to evacuate our house and left everything behind. Then we had to move at least five times since every new area we seek refuge to becomes not safe. Unfortunately everything I owned has been completely lost. My family and I are currently suffering slow death in the north of G@@7_@, sharing a small apartment with other families and living a devastating life.

I am raising funds in order to be able to pay the rising cost of basic necessities specially because the cost of survival became astronomical.  My campaign has been vetted by

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Please donate and/or replog 🥺🙏🇵🇸

From where you are right now, you personally can help save our lives here. Please reblog and post the link to my campaign across all your social media, and follow me @TahseenFamily.

Your generosity has the power to make a significant difference, and will give me and my family hope that there will a better future waiting for us once this conflict stops.

We ask God to bless you and your families and to protect you all from all calamities and to never make you feel or go through what we are going through.

Thank you very much from Tahseen and family for standing by us ❤.

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So here’s an interesting thing I just found out that I’m pretty sure isn’t common knowledge, even among us Comic Nerds TM. 

I and other bloggers have talked in the past about how Raven is a character who’s very influenced by South Asian culture, and people have done some beautiful pieces of fanart reimagining her as a South Asian woman. But until I read this interview with George Perez from 1987 the other day, I had no idea that Perez had actually based Raven’s character design on an Indian woman.

In the interview, Perez is talking about different celebrities and people who he used as references for the Titans, and when it comes to Raven, he says this:

“Originally, Raven was Persis Khambatta, the actress who played in the first STAR TREK film, and later became a young lady named Fran MacGregor, who was a dancer, and I used some of her features, particularly her figure, for Raven.” 

Persis Khambatta was an Indian actress, model and writer, probably best known for playing Ilia in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (which is where that top picture of her is from!) If you compare her to the way Perez drew Raven in the early arcs of New Teen Titans, you can definitely see the resemblance. (TBH, she would’ve been a fantastic casting choice for Raven back in the day, if she hadn’t already been 32 years old when the first issue of New Teen Titans came out.)

And if you look at what appears to be one of Perez’s early designs for Raven (like the interview, found on TitansTower), you can see that she looks noticeably less white than the final version:

If you look at the picture of Persis Khambatta as Ilia in Star Trek: The Motion Picture up there, you can also see a particularly strong resemblance to this design.

This is really cool to me but, frankly, makes it even more baffling that Wolfman and Perez didn’t just go ahead and make Raven canonically Indian/South Asian, too. You have this character with such strong South Asian influences, whose facial features are literally modeled on an Indian woman’s… and then they decide to portray her as white? Why?

It’s possible they were worried about stereotyping, which is certainly a valid worry. But instead, they kept all the stereotypical aspects and slapped them onto a white character, which seems like a far worse solution. (See: similar discussions about Iron Fist, etc.)

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Soraru kept changing his age and making himself younger every time people mentioned his birthday he is such a troll lmao he talked in namas before how he wants to get married in a few years and he's worried there's no progress so it's probably a touchy subject haha. I really agree with what you said about his honesty because that's what I love about him too, he shares so much of himself and of course he's just a normal guy so sometimes he says dumb things but it's the real him it's so important

Yeah, I think almost every utaite going into their mid-20′s or 30′s are making the age jokes, though Mafumafu, Amatsuki, & Soraru are the most guilty xD A lot of traditional Japanese (and Asian) families put pressure on marriage so I can understand why he’s constantly complaining about it (my older cousins are constantly bombarded by marriage questions when they meet our relatives www). Though I think Soraru has conversed with other utaites casually about this and it seems he’d be fine with being single too since he enjoys work? 

I’m really grateful for the honesty because Soraru not only lets us know he’s as much of a flawed, lazy human as we are, but also points out a lot of problems that utaites/people in general experience but may be too afraid to say in public. There was a recent incident where Soraru expressed his distaste for people reprinting and using his and other utaite’s real-life photos as social media icons. While it seems like he mainly received an understanding response, there were a few accounts that got upset at him, and he was even reading and replying to some of those. His ability to stick/argue for his opinion while still listening to others is amazing.

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EMERGENCY HELP🚨

Hello, I'm Ola, a graduate student and Mathematics teacher from Gaza,Palestine. As you reading my message, myself and my family, “my mother, father, three sisters, and my little brother,” are fighting death in northern Gaza and trying to survive under all kinds of suffering including but not limited to destruction, fear, and instability, starvation, thirst, and poverty.

Your generosity has the power to make a significant difference, please donate and reblog my post widly.

My compaign has been verified and appears on @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi's list of vetted fundraisers line 205.

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Nah cause ginseng tea cat didn’t deserve harassment or death threats. I don’t defend some of their bigoted thoughts but people were too harsh on a teenager.

Sure the reasoning that ginseng wanted to become trans after reading yaoi or the Japan worship ranges from questionable to straight up dangerous, but being an adult I would never harm a kid just because they were saying something I oppose, shouldn’t adults instead guide younger people and calmly explain?

For the record, I think that the definition of FtM forced onto ginseng was too restrictive, even within the LGBT community we agree (in 2024) there is many ways of defining this, the traditional description is harming more people than helping. To enforce this onto a kid to the point of telling them to kys is barbaric.

I think adults really failed ginseng tea cat. How is it that the principal etc instead of taking action on the 4chan trolls sending death threats and harassing ginseng tea cat, told them to stop swearing so much instead! Though I agree that the restricting order rule of not being allowed near each other was a great one.

The more people doubled down on their behaviour the more ginseng believed their opinion of them was true! I don’t want to speculate or anything, but with the conviction ginseng insists on their version of reality it reminds me of the Japanese guy who insisted everyone he came across was gang stalking him, until real gang stalkers came along.

Allow me to close with a commenter who I mostly agree with.

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No matter what a post on tumblr tries to tell you, your moral and ethical stances will never be determined by what you reblog and what you scroll past. Don’t let manipulation tactics force you into doing anything you don’t want to do.

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Off the coast of Australia Macroctopus caught the shark, wrapped all its tentacles around it and soon released it. Most likely, he scraped all the parasites off her.

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Escuela de Calor is seemingly about nice sunny weather and bar terraces or sun bathing next to swimming pools. Its very name its quite “popular” there is even a song with that phrase.

But this description of a work and its meaning its strictly etymological and political.

Calor can be Heat, but no, in english, calor should be Calidity ( a word that existed but seem disappeared ) but in its absence we can say its about warmth.

What is it Warmth ?

Warmth is what supposedly  only working classes or peasants have, as once one gets up the social ladder, so becomes educated and civilised, so gets colder and colder, controlled, organised and rational.

Warmth too, seems to belong to Southern European Mediterranean folks. Under the freezing cold of the polluted cities of the industrial revolution, North European Romantics ( French, German and English mostly) discovered our South, or That South ( which is theirs and not ours)

So that this inspections, longings and travelings, even mutations, became normative and self assumed by us, as their narrative legacies enter our education via our educated bourgeoisie teachers, writers, intellectuals and politicians.

In a way, us, the Southerners became “the working classes and peasants” of all the Northerners, even if some where deeply impoverished and totally brutalised. This people, sees all of our lands and sea side as places to vomit, shit, piss or buy cheap land to retire as (what they call to themselves) ex-pats. Those Northerners are totally dismissive of our culture, our ancient embed warmth or whatever that we do or like.

They even not try to learn our languages.

In this case we have both, upper classes and working classes of the North, as the barbaric coloniser, exploiter and dismisser of our  various civilisations and social strata.

Of course just few very lost early romantic souls imagined they understood us and moved to our sea sides and cities, copied our art masters and learned from our great writers and philosophers, the rest pillaged the stuff, and take it with them to their castles and now museums or private collections, back to their cold and rainy home.

This is why Escuela de Calor/ Calidity School is two folded, its about claiming our warmth as folks, peasants or working classes, but also as southerners. This is why is so complex to interact on anglo saxon geographies or north european ones and is so complex to be understood fully by them.

Its also essential, that those subjects from colder precedence, understand that if they aim to embody an aural space of decolonisation and de-schooling as a descending towards the warmth, they have to leave a massive empty blank space on their puritan rigidly programmed brains.

Only with solidarity and empathy instead of eurocentric romanticism can a northerner or a bourgeoise from the South, understand what are we talking about.

Can you de-burgese your self? how this could effectively happen?

Can we act and embody certain principles that by been exercised would become powerful enough to affect our neurones and our brain plasticity so that we can see, hear and talk differently and of course most of all feel differently and warmly ?