#sara ethnic

[kemetic-dreams]

Analysis of classic genetic markers and DNA polymorphisms by Excoffier et al. (1987) found that the Sara are most closely related to the Kunama people of Eritrea.

Both populations speak languages from the Nilo-Saharan family. They are also similar to West African populations, but biologically distinct from the surrounding Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic Afro-Asiatic-speaking groups

The Sara people are a Central Sudanic ethnic group native to southern Chad, the northwestern areas of the Central African Republic, and the southern border of North Sudan. They speak the Sara languages which are a part of the Central Sudanic language family. They are also the largest ethnic group in Chad.

Sara oral histories add further details about the people. In summary, the Sara are mostly animists (veneration of nature), with a social order made up of several patrilineal clans formerly united into a single polity with a national language, national identity, and national religion. 

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[ramayantika]

The day I see Indian men wear dhoti kurta and every piece of clothing in Indian culture at home and at work, I will wear my sarees too

[young-royals-confessions]

im american (afrolatino). and race and ethnicity in america is very very much not the same thing. sara would still not be considered a poc in america. the only reason people might think being latino = not white is because people mix up race and ethnicity a lot over here.

her race would be white and her ethnicity would be latino (nationality depending on where in sa their family is from). my race is black and my ethnicity is latino (i was born in mexico).

i am considered a person of color because i am black. sara is white. she would be considered white in america with latino heritage/blood. idk how it works in europe so im not gonna argue against that.

but again, whether sara is considered a person of color or not, colorism is still a thing. she would be a person of color who does not face discrimination for her skin color.

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[snapbookreviews]

Fall 2024 Behind-the-Scenes Reading

My Fall behind the scenes reading this year is very much a look a my main research project for this semester, which was on Inuit voices in the Arctic.

You’ll have to forgive this not having a picture. I am in California visiting family and therefore away from all the books I read and the end of my semester was such a mess that I didn’t have the opportunity to do a book photoshoot then. To be fair, a lot of these readings are academic articles, which might make for a boring header image. Once I’m home from California, I’ll see about getting a…

[sapphic-sprite]

Something that I’m passionate about is public libraries because of all the support and resources that they provide to their local communities. I know I’ve probably spoken on here before about how important it is to get a library card and use it because of all the perks it can give you (such as free access to online books, movies, and such). For those who are lower class it can provide them with programs, free wifi, free computer use, etc… Public libraries are just so overwhelmingly good for everyone.

In terms of the Global strike, I would like to suggest that people go to their libraries and recommend different Palestinian books. I’m not sure if it differs per state/per library on how you recommend a book, but I know if you use the Libby app through your library card that you can recommend books by tagging them “Notify me”. I know my library system is quite different as it branches out statewide and so I have access to statewide books. I would suggest filling out the forms that come up to recommend a book or talking to a librarian over the phone if you notice they are missing a Palestinian book that you would like to read.

Here is a list of Palestinian nonfiction books that I’ve found:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe

Except for Palestine by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick

This Arab is Queer by Elias Jahshan

Blood Orange by Yaffa AS

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y Davis

The Hundreds Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Here is a list of Palestinian fiction books that I’ve found:

Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger

Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat

Something More by Jackie Khalilieh

Muneera and the Moon by Sonia Sulaiman

I haven’t been reading a lot lately because of my health, but a lot of these came recommended from people I trust to give good recommendations. Feel free to add recommendations in the comments and please contact your local libraries about acquiring the books you see here that they don’t have!

[yourdailyqueer]

Sara Gill

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Pakistani

Occupation: Doctor, activist

Note: First transgender doctor in Pakistan

[ahaura]

Zachary Foster, Ph.d, historian of Palestine, has made a thread of a brief history of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from 1890 to present. [His newsletter: Palestine, in Your Inbox] Pasted below:

Yesterday, on October 24, 2023, Israel's plans to expel Gaza's Palestinian population to Sinai, Egypt were leaked. Not surprisingly, this plan has a decades long history and dates to at least 2004, if not earlier. (Source)

Between Oct 7, 2023-present, Israel has displaced ~1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza through its campaign of indiscriminate bombing. (Source)

In May 2023, 178 Palestinian Bedouins were forced out of Ein Samiya (West Bank) after Israel repeatedly demolished their homes, threatened to destroy their only school & after their grazing land was taken by settlement expansion & b/c of settler violence: [Link]

In July 2022, the 100-person community in Ras a-Tin (WB) was pushed after a Jewish settler outpost was established 2km away. Since then, members of the Palestinian community have suffered from verbal abuse, harassment, theft & vandalism of property. [Link]

Between Aug 2022- August 2023, the 88-person community in al-Qabun was pushed out by Israeli Jewish settler violence & assaults by the Israeli army. [Link]

In July 2020, Israel made 70 Palestinians homeless in Khirbet Humsa for the 6th time. Israeli forces loaded the residents' personal belongings and dropped them off 7 miles away. [Link]

In 2019, 2 groups of Palestinian families near the Taybeh junction were pushed out:

Between June 1967 - 2016, Israel revoked the residency status--and thus the right to live in Jerusalem (or anywhere else in Israel) -- of at least 14,595 Palestinians from East Jerusalem in what amounts to "forcible transfers," according to @hrw. (Source)

Between 1968 -1971, Israel expelled 615 Gazan residents. Between, 1971-1988, Israel expelled another 90 Palestinains from Gaza. Source: Sara Roy, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, p.110

In 1967, Israel expelled 250K-325K Palestinians, including from Imwas, Yalo, Bayt Nuba, Surit, Beit Awwa, Beit Mirsem, Shuyukh, Jiftlik, Agarith & Huseirat. (Source: one, two)

In 1948, Zionist forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. They also refused to allow ~750,000 Palestinians who were made refugees during the war back to their homes.

Source:

B/w 1891-1948, most Zionist leaders, inc. Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha'am, Israel Zangwill, Arthur Rupin, M. Smilansky, L. Motzkin, Yoseph Weitz, Chaim Weizmann, M. Usshishkin, D. Ben Gurion, Moshe Shertok, thought it would be required to expel the Palestinians: [Quote Tweet]

Here are some additional screenshots if the statements of Zionist leaders from 1890-1948. And you wonder why so many people think Zionism was such a problematic, dare I say, racist idea?

[saraannereads]

On the portrayal of Illyrian culture in ACOTAR

I’m Sara - by ethnic origin, I am Arabic and Turkish. I was othered my entire childhood and dealt with seriously atrocious racist attacks.

As I got older, those things lessened and people started assuming I was white or biracial in part due to my having dyed my hair blonde.

Since then, I’ve experienced racism of a different kind - I get told I am a “shallow white girl” who doesn’t have the right to speak about issues facing POC by people from all different ethnicities.

I’ve had enough of that. I may not look like your typical WOC but I am a woman of color. And I will not be silenced.

Why I am not offended by the portrayal of Illyrian culture in Sarah J Maas’s books:

1. I’m from a Muslim family and grew up going to mosques in the Western World, where some of the very oppressive and sexist ideals about women and their place in society were preached from the stands and actively shared by members of the community.

2. I was chronically shamed by my peers in the community for being into my education and for wearing makeup or for daring to speak to boys.

3. The above happened in the United States in the community I grew up in because oppressive, sexist ideals travel across immigration. I clawed my way out of this community and will never look back.

3. Honor killings still happen where I’m from. To this day.

4. Genital mutilation still happens in the regions where I’m from to this day.

5. Women are not allowed to drive in some countries in the region where I’m from to this day.

6. Women are publicly beaten or stoned to death in those regions to this day.

7. Women have to be fully covered up when they leave the house in the region where I’m from to this day.

8. Women are silenced and told not to speak in public - even just to talk to someone - and not to leave their houses without a male chaperone in the region where I’m from to this day.

9. Women are glorified birthing vessels and it is socially accepted for men to have multiple wives to have as many children as possible in the region where I’m from to this day.

10. Women do not have full equality or even basic, fundamental human rights in the the region where I’m from to this day.

How does this relate to Illyrian culture and ACOTAR?

Do I really need to explain the answer to that? I realize that some people may have grown up in Middle Eastern families and not had the experience I had. Some of my experience is also due to Islamic religious ideas and not simply cultural ideals. And there are some people who may love where they came from and have had a radically different experience than my own. That does NOT make my experience less valid, nor does it make my criticisms of the culture and countries I’m referring to less valid or accurate.

To me, the portrayal of the Illyrians is an accurate representation of what goes on in some pockets of the mid east, and for that very reason, I’m not offended.

In fact, wing clipping is essentially the fictional version of genital mutilation, which still happens in the cultures that people say Illyria is inspired by.

It is not racist to look at something and call it out for what it is. If I were to say, every single ME person I’ve ever met adheres to some of the more fundamentalist and sexist rhetoric I heard and continue to see, that would be racist and untrue.

The reality is there will also always be people who attack Sarah J Maas because she’s Jewish, especially at this time with conversations about Zionism running rampant. I married a Jewish man. I’ve seen anti-semitism firsthand. I also saw it growing up among the more nationalistic people I grew up with who hated the idea of an Israeli country.

What you can do:

Stand up for women around the world who don’t enjoy the same freedoms you do, and quit picking fights about a book series. Look to solve real problems instead of making some up.

Note - If you attack me in the comments, I will not respond. I will immediately block. This was not an easy post for me to make in any way, and I feel vulnerable having shared so much.

[odinsblog]

In the occupied Palestinian territories, there are cameras everywhere. In Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, residents say cameras were installed by Israeli police up and down their streets, peering into their homes. One resident named Sara said she and her family “could be detected as if the cameras were just in our house … we couldn’t feel at home in our own house and had to be fully dressed all the time.”

Surveillance cameras now cover the Damascus Gate, the main entrance into the old city of Jerusalem and one of the only public areas for Palestinians to gather socially and hold demonstrations. It’s at that gate that “Palestinians are being watched and assessed at all times”, according to an Amnesty International report, Automated Apartheid. These cameras have created a chilling effect on not just the ability to protest but also on the daily lives of Palestinians who live under occupation, according to Amnesty investigators. The organization had previously concluded that Israel has established a system of apartheid against Palestinians.

Among the vendors behind these surveillance cameras is a company that has been accused of aiding what the US has categorized as a genocide: Hikvision. Based in Hangzhou, China, the company is one of the world’s largest makers of video surveillance equipment. Already infamous among international human rights groups, it has been blacklisted by the US and identified by the UK as a security threat for being complicit in China’s repression of the Uyghur ethnic minority.

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[young-royals-confessions]

i remember making a post on my own blog a while back about how sara is not a poc just because she’s latina, and a bunch of europeans attacked me and said “well actually race is viewed differently in europe”.

and honestly that may be true. i don’t really care. but colorism exists everywhere. you simply cannot tell me that even if sara is considered a person of color in europe that she would experience the same kind of discrimination as people who look like simon or felice. especially in europe. be so serious. colorism exists no matter the country and that’s a problem. but let’s not pretend it doesn’t exist just cause people wanna argue semantics

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[a-pint-of-j-and-b]

De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another) | 1974 | Sara Gómez | Cuba

De Cierta Manera is a film created by legendary Black Cuban female filmmaker Sara Gómez. It mixes documentary-style footage with a fictional story centered around the Las Yaguas slums in Havana where the majority of the population is made up of Black people, Mulatos, and poor Whites. It demonstrates how the changing of material conditions, like in developing the neighbourhood, doesn't immediately change the behaviours and attitudes of a given population.

The fictional aspect of the story focuses on Yolanda a white school teacher with communist ideals who has become employed at a school in Las Yaguas, and her Mulato boyfriend Mario who is a resident of Las Yaguas; and whose interest lays more in his gender, ethnic/racial origins, and neighbourhood loyalties rather than in the working class solidarity pushed by the new revolutionary Cuba.

Their relationship is indicative of social struggles in Cuban society. This includes the machismo of Mario with its origins in western European Spanish society, but also the patriarchal attitudes that have been preserved in the Afro-Cuban fraternity, Abakuá, which he is part of. It also includes the racist attitudes still harbored by Yolanda towards Mario and her Afro-Cuban pupils, despite her apparent revolutionary convictions. Portraying the idea that for the Cuban Revolution to persevere, prejudice; whether racist, sexist, or class based must also be tackled.

[thefactcollector]

A bunch of things about Spider-Man, Part 2:

Miles Morales, created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli (with input from Axel Alonso), was the second Spider-Man to appear in Ultimate Marvel, and the third main Spider-Man overall.

Place of origin: Brooklyn, New York, Earth-1610

Ethnicity: Afro-Puerto Rican

Family: Rio Morales (mother), Jefferson Davis (father), Aaron Davis (the Prowler; uncle)

First appeared: August 2011 (Ultimate Comics: Fallout #4)

Movies: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2024)

Voiced by: Donald Glover in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated television series and Shameik Moore in the Spider-Verse animated movies.

3 facts about Miles:

The initial reactions to Miles' introduction as a new Spider-Man was mixed. Stan Lee and many others approved of the creation of a positive role model for children of color. Others were upset at the replacement of Peter Parker and saw it as an attempt by Marvel Comics to exhibit political correctness. On the other hand, The Washington Post called for the new character to be judged on the quality of the stories, which were getting positive reviews.

According to Bendis, because of Miles' father and uncle's past as thieves, he wonders if criminal behavior is hardwired into his DNA, so he questions whether he is essentially a good person or not. It doesn't help that his uncle Aaron says "You are just like me" to Miles as he dies.

Miles gets to know Peter Parker's loved ones, May Parker, Gwen, and MJ, who know of his secret identity and give him Parker's web shooters.

[Main source: Miles Morales on Wikipedia]

[numba1kittytdrrkinkawaii]

Hcs I made

Charlie is french maybe also Italian since lucifer statue comes from Rome 🇮🇹🇫🇷

Angel is Italian 🇮🇹

Niffty is Japanese 🇯🇵

Alastor is french creole 🇫🇷

Husker is Russian and African American (bc his VA I feel it'd be cool to have one of his ethnicities mirror his va) 🇷🇺 he's also German 🇩🇪

Loona is Russian (bc I said so) 🇷🇺

Carmila is spainish 🇪🇸

Val is Is puerto rican 🇵🇷

Vaggie is still el Salvadorion bc I am way too attached to dat hc 🇸🇻

Vox is American (from cali) 🇺🇲

Velvett is british 🇬🇧

Stolas is british 🇬🇧

Stella is british 🇬🇧

Octavia is british 🇬🇧

Emily is lebense 🇱🇧

Sara is also lebense 🇱🇧

Lucifer is Italian 🇮🇹 but speaks French bc lilith is french

Lilith is french 🇫🇷

Millie is American (from texas) 🇺🇲

Moxxie is American (from NY) 🇺🇲

Satan is from Texas 🇺🇲

Elsa is british 🇬🇧

Literally the whole goeita r british 🇬🇧

Fizzirolli is korean American 🇰🇷🇺🇲

Ozzi is African American 🇺🇲

Zestial is british from Shakespeare times 🇬🇧Peter is Italian and isreali (i dont support is not real dw) 🇮🇹 (not putting the flag sry)

And the fan girl who I forgor the name of bc I am dumb as heck is Malaysian and Ukrainian 🇲🇾🇺🇦

I LUV ALL THESE HCS (also fangirl’s name is Emberlynn lolz) ALSO ELSA HELP THE (whatever his name was) SLANDER IS SO FUNNY. Beelzebub, emberlynn, Cherri bomb,niffty,and Velvette are my fav characters XD

[yourdailyqueer]

Sara Tilley

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual / Queer

DOB: 23 November 1978

Ethnicity: White - Canadian

Occupation: Actress, writer, theatre director, playwright

[toffeelemon]

For the ask game: 2, 7, 9, 13

hi thank you for creating this ask game i think it’s so fun!

2. Favorite secondary romantic and/or sexual pairing

this is a fanon deep cut but madirosh. as the resident yr wlw enthusiast i just think this has such untapped potential. in general maybe maddie’s character wasn’t particularly written as anything other than white but i think they could’ve really leaned into nathalie’s lebanese heritage, and rosh and maddie could have interesting ways that they could relate to each other - but also clashing diasporic backgrounds and socioeconomic class. there’s whole worlds in there!

7. Character you didn’t initially like/love but have now warmed up to

(and then i antagonised him again when s3 came around sksk …) nils! s2 nils really surprised me. i think nils being revealed as queer added so much layer to his motives, adding onto the fact that he’s an ethnic minority and also on the fringes of the old money boys club who’s just trying to survive the game. and even if he could’ve had self serving motives to essentially come out to wille, i still thought his lil attempt at camaradderie was cute. he didn’t have to befriend wille like that, and i like that he did. i love the nille dynamic sksk (i love that it’s canon that wille essentially does not make white friends)

9. Favorite non-Edmar actor

frida maybe? i think it’s so hard to play a character like sara who makes a lot of unlikeable choices and actions - but i could really understand and follow through her misguided logic and reasoning, and especially how her neurodivergence informed her actions.

13. Secondary character you think should have had more screentime

alexander!!!! omg my poor guy who was a key chess piece in the plot and just became a total doormat. again he operates in such an interesting intersection of operating on the fringes in the pyramid of white upper class supremacy at hillerska and trying so hard to assimilate. i’m just so annoyed at some of the plot points that they’d opened up in s1 (and s2) and never followed through. i need to get into this guy’s head so bad.

ask me about yr side characters!