#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…

[milo-by-the-fishtank]

People aren’t saying that cis or perisex folks cannot talk or advocate for transgender or intersex folks. What people are saying is that cis or perisex folks should not be determining what type of experiences an entire group of transgender or intersex people go through. There is a difference between education, uplifting, and advocating for a group and speaking over an entire group of people by determining what a group of people experiences, again a group of people that you are not part of. Also, if you’re listening to part of a group that does not mean you’re listening to the whole. You have to talk to the specific group of people you were talking about to be able to advocate for them and to learn about their lived experiences!

[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]

[gamer2002]

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

[ariadnethedragon]

— Babel, R. F. Kuang

[mynqzo]

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

the sucking and fucking

[shallowseeker]

the way that even in early usa, extended families often lived together or within walking distance

the idea that each nuclear family should have its own house, own appliances, own everything and that adult children should move out at 18 is a relatively recent post-WWII, suburbanization-era invention

and it just so happens to be highly profitable

[demonadelem]

Trucy is half Iranian 🇮🇷 I have proof.

Inspired by this ask from @ask-the-magic-girl

3/4 Iranian depending on how you headcanon her maternal grandfather. We can determine this by looking at her biological father's real name, Shadi Enigmar. While Enigmar is a made up last name. After some research, the name Shadi is Persian/Iranian in origin, meaning Happiness/full of joy.

Looking at it from a Watsonian perspective, I wonder if Trucy ever feels disconnected from her father's culture. Having moved from an Iranian immigrated household to a Japanese immigrated household, it being another thing she lost when her bio father abandoned her? Do you think she feels more and more ingenuine every culture day at school trying to rely on her hazy childhood memories of what it was like? Loss of the unique home cooked cuisine that can't be recreated in restaurants, small words and phrases in another language that get lost to disuse. Does the realization that she feels more American than Iranian feel like a losing a part of herself?

[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.

[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-

[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.