Your house isn't haunted, you're lonely

humansofnewyork: “Is that you?” “Kinda.”

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:14:27 -0400

“Is that you?” “Kinda.”

sensationaldisney: Pick a Princess: Esmeralda (again, I am...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:52:29 -0400

Pick a Princess: Esmeralda

(again, I am aware that Esmeralda isn’t a true princess. It’s just titled Pick a Princess because Added Alliterative Appeal and all that, you know?)

"Kochiyama’s life in social change is inspiring, both for its longevity and for her willingness to..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:01 -0400

“

Kochiyama’s life in social change is inspiring, both for its longevity and for her willingness to take on the most controversial causes. She is, perhaps, most famous for her association with Malcolm X, and for the photos of her holding Malcolm X in her arms as he lay dying after being gunned down in the Audubon Ballroom on February 12, 1965. But there was much, much more to Kochiyama’s activism than her sojourn with the Organization for Afro-American Unity. She fought for Puerto Rican independence, provided support for social and political prisoners, and was instrumental in the fight for reparations for Japanese American internees.

But the importance of Kochiyama’s story doesn’t end with her personal history. For while she is no doubt a remarkable person, she was not alone among Asian Americans of her generation in her commitment to social justice. Throughout her story we are reminded of others who struggled alongside her, of the the Asian American movement of the 1960s that was inspired, in part, by Japanese American internment, exclusionary and blatantly racist immigration laws, the Vietnam War, and exploitation and discrimination of Asian immigrant workers. That movement gave birth to the phrase “Asian American” as a statement of inter-ethnic solidarity, and it stood against unjust wars and with the movements for African American civil rights, workers rights, and immigrant rights, and for multiculturalism, open enrollment in colleges and universities, and diversification of university curricula. That movement gave us Asian American studies, and Asian American studies has allowed us to create a record of our history, in our own words.

”

- Scot Nakagawa, “Yuri Kochiyama,” ChangeLab 5/20/13 (via racialicious)

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:05:34 -0400

bygoneamericana: College students of Japanese ancestry who have...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:01:12 -0400

bygoneamericana:

College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento, 1942.

By Dorothea Lange

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:35:18 -0400

Interview with Flash Art, 2001

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:38:07 -0400

Interview with Flash Art, 2001

thillythenny: (via By rail)

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:10:16 -0400

thillythenny:

(via By rail)

So uh, I’m graduating today.

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:06:11 -0400

So uh, I’m graduating today.

queen - 5/11

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:01:09 -0400

queen - 5/11

sleepfuldays: . by quadratiges

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:22:00 -0400

sleepfuldays:

. by quadratiges

Guy: What do girls do at sleepovers?

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:02:53 -0400

Guy: What do girls do at sleepovers?
Me: Pass the Bechdel test.

zuky: 18mr: Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month:...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:16:46 -0400

zuky:

18mr:

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month: The 131st anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

On May 6, 1882 President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States, and restricting the ability of Chinese living in the U.S. to leave and return. It also made it impossible for Chinese immigrants to become U.S. citizens. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 continues to be one of the most restrictive immigration laws ever passed by the United States.

The Exclusion Act was the first of a battery of restrictive laws that made it nearly impossible for Chinese people to immigrate to the U.S., and also made life difficult for Chinese immigrants already living and working in the U.S. Many supported the Act because of widespread dislike for the Chinese and anxiety about Chinese laborers taking jobs, especially during the California gold rush.

Unsurprisingly, it totally didn’t work. Not only did it not do much to improve economic conditions for white Americans, Chinese people living in the U.S. organized, contested the laws, and eventually the law was repealed in 1943. Last year, the House of Representatives passed a resolution apologizing for the systematic exclusion of Chinese Americans, only the fourth time the federal legislature has ever issued an apology to an entire group of people.

[Image: political cartoon of 1882 criticizing the Exclusion Act for arbitrarily excluding Chinese while admitting all kinds of other “undesirables.”]

Actually I think it’s a bit of a glib oversimplification to say that the Chinese Exclusion Act “totally didn’t work”. The laws were in effect for 60 years. In many ways, it did work. Chinese American populations dwindled during the Chinese Exclusion era and many Chinese communities were simply wiped out and vanished. Those communities were “bachelor societies” since no Chinese women were allowed and therefore there were no children, just aging and lonely men, which is partly how the stereotype of the sexless Asian man began — because of racist US immigration laws. In other words, we’re still living with the legacy of these laws.

White riots, firebombings, and lynchings of Chinese were condoned by these laws and mostly not even recorded. San Francisco Chinatown burned down in the 1905 earthquake, destroying all immigration records, and after that Chinese migrants developed an economy of “Paper Sons” and “Paper Daughters” to generate fake paperwork and hustle fake relatives into the country, but they still had to get past the hell of Angel Island. Chinese people, of course, could not vote and therefore had no vehicle for affecting politics. The only recourse was taking matters to court. All of this struggle and unimaginable suffering went on even after Chinese Exclusion laws were repealed during World War II, until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

beatpie: Monet’s Gardens at Giverny By snap713

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:05:13 -0400

beatpie:

Monet’s Gardens at Giverny

By snap713

I just finished college. Time for a nap.

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:27:16 -0400

I just finished college. Time for a nap.

“Une Femme Est Une Femme” photographed by Sofia Sanchez and...

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:14:55 -0400

“Une Femme Est Une Femme” photographed by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, and styled by Samuel François for Lula #16 S/S 2013

Le Bain Public by Thierry Martin

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:17:16 -0400

Le Bain Public by Thierry Martin

paralysedbeaver: Shaun of the Dead (2003), Hot Fuzz (2007), The...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:00:00 -0400

paralysedbeaver:

Shaun of the Dead (2003), Hot Fuzz (2007), The World’s End (2013) [x,x,x]

Photo

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:08:11 -0400

mudwerks: Traversing The Empire (by paul.malon) C. Peckham,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:31:34 -0400

mudwerks:

Traversing The Empire (by paul.malon)

C. Peckham, 1930

2 papers left before I finish college and both are going to be about imperialism! What else could you expect from me?