I should organize my tags and make a directory for this blog. Even if it’s just for me.
I’ll keep you posted.
Guide to supporting Native cultures and their art, not cultural appropriation!
I feel like that “3 S’s” rule is a pretty good one for buying any “ethnic” items, especially from people who have had their culture exploited or have been culturally oppressed.
The three S’s are very smart, and easy enough to remember.
☂ Rain as an element is a key plot device in many of Miyazaki’s films.
umbrellas requested by okoyn
Anonymous asked: I want to thank you for posting about Vincent Chin. Before today, I did not know he was and am surprised how close to home this issue is for me.
It’s no problem - I didn’t get to know his story until college.
There’s a great documentary called “Vincent Who” that goes in depth on why his murder was made such an impact on the Asian American community back before there really was a pan-ethnic Asian American identity.
I’m going to watch it again later today.
I remember the first time I watched a documentary about Vincent Chin, I was entirely unprepared to see Lily Chin, his mother, cry. There was something about seeing her that triggered something so hard in me that I just burst into tears. She looks a little bit like my mother.
I admit I also teared up when I saw her cry. To lose your son, then to have little to no recourse or justice? I wasn’t sure if they were tears of anguish at the loss of a child, or tears of anger.
And of course, what with her being an immigrant, I can only imagine that her whole hope for a future in America died with her only son. She ended up moving back to Guangzhou in the late 80s because she didn’t want to be reminded of Vincent’s murder.
“What kind of law is this? What kind of justice? This happened because my son is Chinese. If two Chinese killed a white person, they must go to jail, maybe for their whole lives… Something is wrong with this country.”
I remember the first time I watched a documentary about Vincent Chin, I was entirely unprepared to see Lily Chin, his mother, cry. There was something about seeing her that triggered something so hard in me that I just burst into tears. She looks a little bit like my mother.
Nearly three decades after the racially charged beating death of Vincent Chin in Highland Park, the impact of his death among Asian Americans was highlighted Thursday night as part of the Asian American Journalists Association conference in Detroit.
The AAJA screened the 1987 Academy Award-nominated documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” at the RenCen4 Theaters.
Documentary director Christine Choy, activist Helen Zia, attorney Roland Hwang, who represented Chin’s family, and broadcaster Ti-Hua Chang discussed Chin’s death and the aftermath of what became an Asian-American civil rights movement.
“Vincent Chin was all of us … just a regular guy,” Chang said. “They used a Louisville Slugger to hit him four times in the head, and they beat him like a dog.”
Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese-American engineer who was beaten in the head with a baseball bat in June 1982 by Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. The men mistook Chin for being Japanese American, blaming the Japanese for taking U.S. auto industry jobs.
Neither man served a day in jail after receiving three years of probation in a state trial and being acquitted of all charges in a federal case.
Zia, a Chinese-American journalist who once worked as a large-press operator for Chrysler, said Chin’s death led to the embrace of the term Asian American. The movement was “about educating us and educating the larger community,” she said.
Denise Yee Grim, executive director of the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce, wasn’t on the panel but grew up with Chin in Oak Park.
She said he was a funny guy, who always had a smile on his face and loved comic books.
Speaking through tears, Grim said she and her family and friends were devastated and outraged when they learned about his death.
“To make it even worse, they didn’t even know his nationality,” she said. “That really hurt.”
“He was a great guy, and I don’t want anyone to forget that,” Grim said.
Vincent Chin was assaulted 31 years ago today.
Test Number Three.
Necropolis will launch at the end of August as an ongoing weekly webcomic. Stay tuned!
I dislike the way sesame seeds get stuck on my lips sometimes.
So obviously when I get a burger and the bun has sesame seeds on it, I immediately rage-chuck away the whole burger. Nope, I say! All the nopes! How can I possibly enjoy any part of this burger when I have to endure the sesame seeeeeeeeds?!
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I sometimes get the sense that people who see my individual text posts without the context of the rest of my blog develop the impression that I’m just lurching over my computer, breathing heavily, foaming at the mouth, bloodshot eyes, veins all bulging out of my forehead, and impotently bitter at the world.
In your dreams, muffin.
Snow White.
I’m on a roll today….
This was originally going to be done in the likeness of Simone Simons, and it somehow wound up looking like Ginnifer Goodwyn posing like Simons. How aproppriate though…. happy accidents. Speaking of accidents, her bow was a mess, so I cheated and fixed it in PS. :(
Anonymous asked: I find it ironic how you complain about fairy tales being switched up, yet you reblog things such as Rapunzel being switched around. Oh no, it may just appeal to men too much.
Oh no, I’m being critical of media.
I must hate all of the things.
How can I enjoy the things that have problematic things in them.
How.
How do.
Womp womp woomp.
What if sleeping beauty became a knight instead?
A mini project I’ve been thinking about for awhile. You can find a backstory comic [here].
