#immigrant identity

[dgspeaks]

Capturing the Quiet Moments: A Review of "The Farewell" (2019)

In the vast landscape of cinema, few films capture the intimate intricacies of family and culture quite like Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell.” This independent gem, released in 2019, offers a poignant and deeply personal exploration of familial bonds, cultural clashes, and the universal struggle of saying goodbye. Through its delicate storytelling and authentic performances, “The Farewell” stands as a…

[t0bey]

finally got around to designing an idv self insert for myself

[bixels]

Jesus man, relax.

[jesncin]

sigh just. What gets me about these pinkwashed readings of my immigrant Clois comics is that they go out of their way to make the only non white character (Lois) functionally useless in the story.

Like if Private Interview really was about "Superman being trans" in those flashbacks (because apparently the brown girl in the past is not the brown woman in the present day) what are Lois and Superman connecting on? When they share their names to each other what's that supposed to be? Their dead names? Geez. It says something that I'm depicting a brown girl surviving a sinophobic riot and people are instead centering it on "no this is about a white man figuring out his gender instead!"

Someone recently said they interpreted Clark and Lana's relationship in Today Tomorrow not working out because Lana is a lesbian and Clark is trans and?? Just because Lana has short hair when she's older and I drew her as a butch? How does Lois connecting to Clark even make sense in that reading. The whole point was allegorizing struggles interracial couples go through, and an Asian American Lois connecting with Clark because she gets it.

I know some people like to sass me by saying "art is all about interpreting your own take" but like. There's such a thing as misinterpretation too. And I'm all too wary of white queer people projecting a more palatable experience on my immigrant comics because they refuse to connect to an experience that's too othering for them. While it's fine to have queer readings of how Superheroes handle dual identities, it becomes an issue when that reading pinkwashes the artists' intention to depict themes of immigration and alienation under xenophobia and racism.

[haushinkaisarealgirl]

Protest Against I.C.E. Raids in Lubbock, Texas February 1, 2025

[indiscriminateindecision]

[ariadnethedragon]

— Babel, R. F. Kuang

[mynqzo]

Why do you like vampires specifically, what do you like of them?

the sucking and fucking

[gamer2002]

"Acthually, we just let illegal aliens to commit identity fraud" is a take, I guess

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Iran is bombing Israel apparently, FAFO moment truly.

Both Biden and Trump are vowing to defend Israel with harsh military force against Iran.

If they follow through with it and the US moves against Iran, this will actually become a war.

Do not stop pressuring politicians to support Palestine. Do not stop advocating for Palestine. Do not stop protesting Israel. Do not stop protesting genocide.

From the river to the sea.

[jesncin]

it's Lunar New Year today so I'll be resharing Private Interview tonight! As always please be kind, it's not a trans story- it's an immigrant story. If you want a trans immigrant story you can either pick up my graphic novel Lunar Boy or wait for me to do something to martian manhunter-

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

[h0rnyh0rr0rs]

Nu te mulțumi cu asimilarea când preferă să te vadă mort.

For English:

Do not settle for assimilation when they would rather see you dead.

[castilestateofmind]

"Every man and every nation has the sacred right to preserve their differences and their identity in the name of their future, and in the name of their past".

-Jean Raspail.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Russell at LGBTQ Nation:

This week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will only recognize “two biological sexes.” In a Wednesday, April 2, press release, the agency said that it was “updating the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify that it only recognizes two biological sexes, male and female.” The release cited President Donald Trump’s January 20, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The president’s anti-trans order similarly declared that the U.S. government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, and falsely characterized so-called “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex” as fundamental attacks on women “depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.” Among the order’s many anti-trans provisions, it instructed government agencies “to end the dederal funding of gender ideology.” It declared that “‘sex’ shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female” and “is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of ‘gender identity.’” It also required that all federal agency forms that list an individual’s sex list only “male or female” as options. Prior to Wednesday’s announcement, USCIS included an X gender option on intake its intake form for gender-nonconforming immigrants applying for naturalization status. That change was announced almost exactly one year ago, in April 2024.

But in its Wednesday release, USCIS said that per its new guidelines, the agency “considers a person’s sex as that which is generally evidenced on the birth certificate issued at or nearest to the time of birth. If the birth certificate issued at or nearest to the time of birth indicates a sex other than male or female, USCIS will base the determination of sex on secondary evidence.”

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) implements anti-trans policy in line with EO 14168 that recognizes only male and female sexes. Such a bigoted decree erases trans people legally.