hey all. oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy guys. shit is fucking tough. it’s fucking ROUGH out here dude.
1. america sucks
2. the world
3. i am soooo frickin tired but heres some good news if u know me at all! i have struggled with insomnia and was on ambien for a long time and FINALLY i have been able to fall asleep organically. however i cannot stay asleep like more than 2h not possible. btu im VERY HAPPY i can at least get tired
4. i came on here cos i forgot choi kang hee’s thing was airing and i wanna see what ppl think!!!! but i havent watched a kdrama since mr queen!
5. yes i am watching bl
6. the world is bad and it’s tough. i dont have to explanin it in detail. if you are interested i REALLY ENCOURAGE you to read tamara k. nopper’s work, this times piece, and we do this til we free us by Mariame Kaba in which Kaba, an abolitionist and organizer, has her foreword written by her closest friends and allies: two asian women. these asian women spent years and years with these black women and colloborated and shared and they have extremely in depth understanding of black women in the organizing space, and blackness. i can’t think of a way to word this and i won’t try right now. but we NEED people to understand the nuances of this. getting it just right. exploring the myths of the model minority and the power imbalance it creates between blackness and other groups. i say this to say that (lol) we do not and cannot approach each group’s oppression and pushback globally and domestically if we think that white supremacy and societal ills operate in each race in the same way which doesn’t even give leeway to minorities in THOSE groups.
an on top of that everything is so connected. the women that were murdered were sex workers. i think most of them were sino (im sorry i did not check and i wont right now, i cannot handle it) but yea. this is about labor rights, sex work, and race too. filipino people have to be under the thumb of trying to make money and america and in PH we’ve made a program to get people over here to live in shit conditions just to get out of ther eback home or send their family some $
in the comments i will leave some links. tell me what u have been up to and whatyou are watching btu ACTUALLY tell me bc i want to watch something im so bored and talk 2 u
https://time.com/5949926/black-asian-solidarity-white-supremacy/ “How a Shared Goal to Dismantle White Supremacy Is Fueling Black-Asian Solidarity” there’s a picture of yuri kochiyama with malcolm x’s dead body in the piece. i did not knwo that and sent some screencaps to my mother (we were discussing black-asian solidarity in the aftermath) accidentally with it in it 🙁 i had never seen the pics before. frankly, one sentence here really pissed me off so i couldn’t really finish it ut i kept scrolling and nopper’s comments come in. this is exactly what all the asian women who fought and fight alongside black women understand and i think it was really lazy to have a sentence in here that is disproven time and time again and im fucking tired of it.
so as these convos come up people need to be on their motherfucking game. realize tactics that push us apart but by no fucking means can i sit by and watch people who have limited undeerstanding imply things about my people because of white terror and our assimilation in general anad what we must do. i will not do it. bc we’re in this together not apart adn this has been a CONSTANT in radical organizing and will continue to be.
kochiyama siad she didnt agree with evrything X did particularly probably the idea of pan africanism. eventually, X denounces this idea (you have to read it and stuff if you dont know sorry lmao) bc it was the right thing to do sorta (again READ ABOUT IT before u make judgements and think about why baclk people would want to do that. it is a valid thing but we dont want to recreate fucking ethnostates. we cant migrate to peoples land like with israeli apartheid etc and we’re all supposed to be free) but she, as an asian woman a fucking japanese woman post WWII which is part of this stupid fucking country’s LONG TERRORIST HITSROY AGAINST ASIA AND BTW THAT STRTED WITH FRANCE SO
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i wrote this long thing n my privileges and shit but who cares. we havnet ever been poor and we’ve gone through difficulties. i on my own ama broke lmao my parrents make money but theyre in debt. so like class-wise im way better off and thats huge. also my dad being a nigerian immigrant thought that is certainly MOST CERTAINLY not a guarantee. my father is the one who supports his family the most because they couldnt get to that position esp bc 3/5 of them are women. that;s about his gender and luck., but hes a dark man and though the gender is th eplus, that doesnt really hold up when women are frightened of you.
the shit my mother’s had to face i cant even. she was born in 1957 to a white mom and black dad in the fucking US. we don’t know where we’re from. they didnt really have much money snf she has 3 sisters. then her dad died. all of htem are pretty light tho visibly black. her color helps her, but shes still a BW. that rly affected them bc all 3 went on to do crazy shit and be like pretty high powered *my mother would never betray me and be a ceo. her sister is like super wealthy lmao she bought her daughter a mercedes. i cant even BUY BACK MY CAR FROMY MY PARENTS
thats not the point. i want to point out thatttttt there’s like levels to this shit. opportuities you miss and dont miss. fucking luck. hard work and all that is a huge factor but STILL. so i come from a place where it’s COMPLETELY different to these women’s lives. i have that power over them in its way. these things can all at once be understood.
amara
March 27, 2021 at 8:15 AM
hey all. oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy guys. shit is fucking tough. it’s fucking ROUGH out here dude.
1. america sucks
2. the world
3. i am soooo frickin tired but heres some good news if u know me at all! i have struggled with insomnia and was on ambien for a long time and FINALLY i have been able to fall asleep organically. however i cannot stay asleep like more than 2h not possible. btu im VERY HAPPY i can at least get tired
4. i came on here cos i forgot choi kang hee’s thing was airing and i wanna see what ppl think!!!! but i havent watched a kdrama since mr queen!
5. yes i am watching bl
6. the world is bad and it’s tough. i dont have to explanin it in detail. if you are interested i REALLY ENCOURAGE you to read tamara k. nopper’s work, this times piece, and we do this til we free us by Mariame Kaba in which Kaba, an abolitionist and organizer, has her foreword written by her closest friends and allies: two asian women. these asian women spent years and years with these black women and colloborated and shared and they have extremely in depth understanding of black women in the organizing space, and blackness. i can’t think of a way to word this and i won’t try right now. but we NEED people to understand the nuances of this. getting it just right. exploring the myths of the model minority and the power imbalance it creates between blackness and other groups. i say this to say that (lol) we do not and cannot approach each group’s oppression and pushback globally and domestically if we think that white supremacy and societal ills operate in each race in the same way which doesn’t even give leeway to minorities in THOSE groups.
an on top of that everything is so connected. the women that were murdered were sex workers. i think most of them were sino (im sorry i did not check and i wont right now, i cannot handle it) but yea. this is about labor rights, sex work, and race too. filipino people have to be under the thumb of trying to make money and america and in PH we’ve made a program to get people over here to live in shit conditions just to get out of ther eback home or send their family some $
in the comments i will leave some links. tell me what u have been up to and whatyou are watching btu ACTUALLY tell me bc i want to watch something im so bored and talk 2 u
amara
March 27, 2021 at 8:32 AM
https://time.com/5949926/black-asian-solidarity-white-supremacy/ “How a Shared Goal to Dismantle White Supremacy Is Fueling Black-Asian Solidarity” there’s a picture of yuri kochiyama with malcolm x’s dead body in the piece. i did not knwo that and sent some screencaps to my mother (we were discussing black-asian solidarity in the aftermath) accidentally with it in it 🙁 i had never seen the pics before. frankly, one sentence here really pissed me off so i couldn’t really finish it ut i kept scrolling and nopper’s comments come in. this is exactly what all the asian women who fought and fight alongside black women understand and i think it was really lazy to have a sentence in here that is disproven time and time again and im fucking tired of it.
here’s a bunch of her works and papers (i’m almost sure i can get them so let me know if u want it)
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Tamara-K-Nopper-2013592829
https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/on-terror-captivity-and-black-korean-conflict/ “On terror, captivity, and black-korean conflict” (i also saved “the Trajectory of antiblackness in korea” at the same time tho that one i never read)
so as these convos come up people need to be on their motherfucking game. realize tactics that push us apart but by no fucking means can i sit by and watch people who have limited undeerstanding imply things about my people because of white terror and our assimilation in general anad what we must do. i will not do it. bc we’re in this together not apart adn this has been a CONSTANT in radical organizing and will continue to be.
kochiyama siad she didnt agree with evrything X did particularly probably the idea of pan africanism. eventually, X denounces this idea (you have to read it and stuff if you dont know sorry lmao) bc it was the right thing to do sorta (again READ ABOUT IT before u make judgements and think about why baclk people would want to do that. it is a valid thing but we dont want to recreate fucking ethnostates. we cant migrate to peoples land like with israeli apartheid etc and we’re all supposed to be free) but she, as an asian woman a fucking japanese woman post WWII which is part of this stupid fucking country’s LONG TERRORIST HITSROY AGAINST ASIA AND BTW THAT STRTED WITH FRANCE SO
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amara
March 27, 2021 at 8:57 AM
i wrote this long thing n my privileges and shit but who cares. we havnet ever been poor and we’ve gone through difficulties. i on my own ama broke lmao my parrents make money but theyre in debt. so like class-wise im way better off and thats huge. also my dad being a nigerian immigrant thought that is certainly MOST CERTAINLY not a guarantee. my father is the one who supports his family the most because they couldnt get to that position esp bc 3/5 of them are women. that;s about his gender and luck., but hes a dark man and though the gender is th eplus, that doesnt really hold up when women are frightened of you.
the shit my mother’s had to face i cant even. she was born in 1957 to a white mom and black dad in the fucking US. we don’t know where we’re from. they didnt really have much money snf she has 3 sisters. then her dad died. all of htem are pretty light tho visibly black. her color helps her, but shes still a BW. that rly affected them bc all 3 went on to do crazy shit and be like pretty high powered *my mother would never betray me and be a ceo. her sister is like super wealthy lmao she bought her daughter a mercedes. i cant even BUY BACK MY CAR FROMY MY PARENTS
thats not the point. i want to point out thatttttt there’s like levels to this shit. opportuities you miss and dont miss. fucking luck. hard work and all that is a huge factor but STILL. so i come from a place where it’s COMPLETELY different to these women’s lives. i have that power over them in its way. these things can all at once be understood.
Ally
March 27, 2021 at 2:32 PM
4. I’m watching Hello? Me! Choi Kang Hee’s drama! It’s soooo funny and totally endearing. It’s the bright spot in my week. I hope you pick it up.