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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…
#"The Farewell" review#Alex Weston score#Anna Franquesa Solano cinematography#Awkwafina performance#Chinese traditions#Chinese-American film#cinema critique#cinematic visuals#contemporary Chinese cinema#cross-cultural conflict#cultural commentary#cultural dichotomy#East meets West#emotional storytelling#ethical dilemmas#ethical practice in film#family bonds#family drama#family love#heartfelt film#Immigrant experience#immigrant identity#independent film review#indie film analysis#intimate storytelling#Lulu Wang#nuanced performances#quiet moments in film#terminal illness narrative#Zhao Shuzhen
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finally got around to designing an idv self insert for myself
#identity v#idv#original character#idv oc#idv self insert#my art#jed fitzpatrick#cool that idv has such a set time period bc i can just use the fact my family were Irish immigrants in the victorian era#and make that part of my oc lol
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Jesus man, relax.
#this was in response to me saying “lunar new year” on the rarity art#personal#delete later#what in insane nonproblem to get this angry about#i asked my parents (taiwanese immigrants) about this and they said we use either but prefer lunar new year#because it's inclusive to koreans and vietnamese people who celebrate on the same day#lunar new year is an umbrella term same as “happy holidays.” this person is basically getting mad i said happy holidays instead of#merry christmas.#my family and i identify more as taiwanese than chinese so. we're not gonna say chinese new year much anyways#i sent this to my mom btw and she replied with basically “die mad i guess.” love you ma#this literally doesn't matter anyways i could have said “chinese new year” to caption that post and it wouldn't have mattered#the only reason i didn't is because i plan on drawing another art including carol (coco pommel) who's korean and celebrates the same day#like. most people in china/taiwan don't care they just say “happy new year” cuz it's the fuckin new year. someone saying lunar new year is#not erasure it's not flattening asian identities into a monolith. it's just an umbrella term.#anyways happy lunar new year happy chinese new year happy tet happy spring festival happy seollal#like i cannot stress enough to you guys that these holidays are on the exact same day and celebrate basically the same exact thing.#this is not an issue.
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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.
#ramblings#if u want a trans immigrant story my award winning book is right there so don't come at me with the “trans ppl can be immigrants too”#this is why i don't trust ppl who say “i only consume queer stuff” it's an admission that u don't want to connect to other experiences#outside of one you're familiar with. how can u empathize with someone else if they have to share an identity with u first.#jesncin dc meta
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Protest Against I.C.E. Raids in Lubbock, Texas February 1, 2025
#protest#immigration#I.C.E.#Lubbock#Texas#Chicano#Tejano#Mexican American#faces blurred for identity protection#viva la raza#viva la causa#no borders no walls#abolish ICE
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#the giver chappell roan#immigrants we get the job done Hamilton#i make a fucking meme okay#lesbians#immigrants#we get the job done#i get the job done#the giver#chappell roan#chappell i love you#is this identity euphoria
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— Babel, R. F. Kuang
#babel an arcane history#babel rf kuang#babel or the necessity of violence#babel#rf kuang#robin swift#books and libraries#books and reading#books#book quotations#quotes#quotes and words#litedit#lit edit#books and quotes#words#words words words#immigration#homeland#identity#oxford#dark academia#griffin lovell#book quote#book edit#literature
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Why do you like vampires specifically, what do you like of them?
the sucking and fucking
#ask#also many several deep complex reasons#and if i were to divulge into them i would actually never shut up#its the. vampyrisim being a metaphore for otherness. for queerness#them being originally created (in europe at least) to be cruel representations of jewish people - immigrants and eastern europeans - and#these people reclaiming them. the reclamation of vampires to be the 'others' the ones that are ostracized by society#and people finding solidarity in that. vampires are queer their entire mythology is inherently queer as well so its beautiful in its own wa#vampires were transformed from cruel caricatures with intent to portray the fears of xenophobic english men to#complex deeply thought-out characters that embrace their differences from 'humanity' and live in their true identity#remember when i said “i cant delve into this otherwise i wont stop talking” yeah sorry it happened anyway
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#immigrants#migrants#undocumented immigrants#united states#original documents or paper copies#identity and status#mass deportations
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"Acthually, we just let illegal aliens to commit identity fraud" is a take, I guess
#ssn#social security#identity theft#illegal immigration#illegal aliens#doge#musk#elon musk#maga#immigration#crime#immigrants#taxes#us politics#politics#american politics#usa politics
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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.
#Why do I have to live in a country that’s always on the wrong side of history#Why are both candidates on the ballot this election war mongering freaks#can these old white men just both get a fatal stomach ulcer and go septic#surely there could be literally ANYONE ELSE#I would rather vote in a literal dog#but no I have to choose between a far right conservative and trump who wants to wage war with Mexico and China AND iran now#Great#anyway focus on the other seats on the ballot this year everyone#Biden and trump are legitimately identical on half of their stances I truly cannot tell who the worse one is because they agree on everythi#frankly at this point I’ll just vote Biden because the trump voters are actively dangerous when he’s in power#they are either way but he has a lot more power over them during his presidency#but since both Biden and trump love to abuse immigrants and support genocide#there isn’t even a lesser of two evils here#it’s solely a matter of keeping the trump cultists in line
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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-
#ramblings#it's pinkwashing to go out of your way to read the blatantly immigrant narrative of that comic and project a queer story instead mkay#i get it that the experiences can overlap but the last thing we want to imply is that these marginalized identities are interchangeable#like what do u think they're doing in the end. sharing their dead names. come on#even if you did mistaken it cuz you skim read it. just keep comments like that to yourself please.
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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]
#and then they're like ''ohhh they're mizrahi!'' [connotation nonwhite‚ virtuously indigenous]#and i have to be like. no. it's just that‚ as palestine was in fact ottoman-administered greater syria for most of the last 600 years‚#you could get there from other parts of the ottoman empire. such as the part of now-ukraine your ashkenazi family is also from.#it wasn't actually a hermetically sealed arab-only ethnostate that evaporated immigrants on sight. it was a pretty decent place to live as#a jew by at least some accounts. or better than the front of the hapsburg-ottoman war anyway which is where they were coming from.#i'm not sure who you think it's serving exactly to believe that there were literally no ashkenazim in the middle east before the 1st aliyah#however there were some. and this information does not actually threaten a modern anti-state of israel position like at all.#but since apparently you've constructed your new Diaspora-Centric Identity around the idea that 'palestine' and 'diaspora'#are the two mutually exclusive nonoverlapping regions and the former is ontologically a no-european-jews-allowed zone#i guess i can give you a minute to try to figure it out.#ugh sorry this is nothing it isn't anything. for one thing it's fantastically unimportant#and for another thing i don't know how to like talk about it in a way that doesn't make me sound at least kind of like im trying to justify#myself as being somehow less complicit or something. i mean i think my complicity as an american dwarfs the rest of it honestly but.#i just feel really insanely alienated where the rhetoric of my theoretically most closely politically aligned group is not really built to#like. accommodate the facts of my family history.#sorry. i have honestly no idea why im so obsessed with articulating this concept ive just been chewing on it pointlessly for days#box opener
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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.
#politics#lgbtqia#lgbtq#identity#romani#social justice#human rights#resistance#anarchy#genocide#us politics#fascisim#queer#transgender#you should not have to pay to earn the right to live#minorities#billionaires#blm#fuck capitalism#fuck colonialism#make it stop#culture erasure#assimilation#colonialism#ecocide#no one is free until we are all free#no one is illegal on stolen land#immigration#do not be erased#whitewashing
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"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.
#Jean raspail#Pierre Joubert#Europe#european identity#identity#great replacement#reconquista#traditionalism#tradition#defend europe#immigration#the camp of the saints
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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.
#Immigration#Transgender#LGBTQ+#Trump Administration II#Anti Trans Extremism#Marco Rubio#Executive Order 14168#USCIS#US Citizenship and Immigration Services#Gender Markers#Gender Identity#Transgender Erasure
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