#pakistani-americans

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Here's an immigrant fact about Columbus, Ohio: Lots of people are from Pakistan.

[neshamama]

salman toor, "the texter," 2019, oil on panel

[tototavros]

???

[moonlightsapphic]

Uh guys, in case you aren't all caught up, the graphic novel that started as a little queer comic on Tumblr by ND Stevenson (creator of Shera: Princesses of Power) has been adapted by Netflix into an adorable movie about the contemporary genderqueer experience. Go watch Nimona. RIGHT NOW. (Also read the book!)

The movie also features an API gay couple. Ambrosius Goldenloin is an Asian American descendant of the revered knight, Gloreth, and he dyes his hair blonde to match hers and fit the white saviour image that the public expects from him. He is manipulated golden child of a conservative white woman trying to assert control over the kingdom. Ballister Boldheart is a darker-skinned (desi! muslim!) British Pakistani sweetheart who had to bootstrap his way to the top and still couldn't win model minority status with the head of the institute, and is framed for crimes he didn't commit and condemned by the state. The character designs are both modeled after their voice actors, Eugene Lee Yang and Riz Ahmed. Both actors have done extensive DEI work for the API LGBTQ+ community and visibility!

They are archenemies. They are lovers. They are husbands but also kind of divorced. They will find their way back to each other because they are simply victims of the same system, and they are just so soft for each other and what they want to protect. They are also Nimona's dads. They're slightly different from how they were in the book, but I'm so glad for the changes. And I'm so glad for what remained exactly the same as ND Stevenson envisioned years ago:

[starlightshadowsworld]

The concept of birthright is wild because that logic doesn't work when applied to other cultures.

Pakistani's from Pakistan would consider me a foreigner. Hell they'd see my parents as foreigners, and they were born there.

But somehow that logic doesn't apply to Israel?

They'll accept foreign settlers as their citizens but won't accept the indigenous population of Palestinians... Or see them as human?

It's crazy how in any other immigrant culture Netanyahu would be considered a foreigner in his home country.

Because yeah he was born in Tel Aviv but he was raised in America.

But no ones like oh he's turned American, he's not Israeli enough.

That is insane.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Colorized photo of a graveyard of destroyed Pakistani M47 Patton tanks after the Battle of Asal Uttar, 1965.

[wouldyourecognizethisperson-poll]

[face-claims-central]

Mina Shahid - Pakistani Vietnamese American, Unknown

[abstracted-psychopomp]

wishing asian animation fans a very happy pavitr prabhakar, ballister boldheart, and ambrosius goldenloin

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat" is available to read here (NOTE: Submitter has added TWs for depictions of spousal abuse and misogyny in this text. Read at your own risk.)

[golzar]

Shereen Mohammad

[neshamama]

hope you're all doing okay. if not, there's space for that too.

paintings by salman toor (b.1983)

[theaskew]

Huma Bhabha (Pakistan-American b. 1962), Untitled, 2009. Ink on black and white photographs, 3.25 x 19.75 in. | 33.7 x 50.2 cm.

[gentil-minou]

God that last post is so fucking frustrating because Asians experience so many microaggressions for names especially when you live in a non Asian country and it's the worst thing. Because names MEAN something and in Asian cultures the mean a whole lot they're about history and extend so far back. They have deep and complex meanings that vary from country to country. And people make fun of them or mispronounce them and continue to do so or ask "can I call you -whitename- instead" like it's a nickname that's cute no fuck off, or like how sometimes we have multiple names because we have to or we have to make up a name cause we think we need to or even consider changing our own name to something dumb like Betty because the incredible culturally significant and beautiful name we have ends up bringing us nothing but pain because it's just another way to ostracize and bully and exclude us. That we have to make ourselves palletable to white folks because "wow you're so pretty and foreign I wish I had your eyes/hair/skin" but "your name is hard to say can I call you this instead"

It's disgusting, and if you find you disagree then you need to stop fetishizing us and learn some Goddamn empathy and respect or go read your dumb white vampire book or your stupid hoover lady and leave our spaces alone

[j2rkt]

Just a hashing Session on the Hakam Din Shesham pipes lol.

[chaiaurchaandni]

whats up w american poc in online spaces talking ab how great western hegemony/US imperialism is and when u call them white (bec how am i supposed to know this idiot's ethnicity) theyre like "well actually!! 🤓☝️ im black" like ok bitch ur still speaking the white man's tongue so idgaf