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planetvia · 2 years

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Vogue Phillipines inaugural cover

#vogue magazine #vogue philippines #high fashion #haute couture #poc beauty #AAPI beauty

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sentient-clutter · 29 days

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y'all Anjali Vakil's Google Doodle of Meena Alexander is so hauntingly gorgeous I have to share it here:

You ever stumble upon a piece of art that portrays such a compelling scene that it damn near stops your heart? Something about this image just makes me wanna climb into it and live there for a while.

It also introduced me to Meena Alexander, who as of this morning has become one of my new favorite poets 🥰 Birthplace with Buried Stones is my current fav; would also like to grab coffee with Meena's ghost and ask her to tell me about Cadenza 💕

#art styles i love #beautiful art #Meena Alexander #poetry #happy aapi month!

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rinissse · 1 year

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Dear white people, the pressure to be thin didn't come from my Asian culture. It was white people and their idea of an Asian body. It was white people who body shamed me for being a healthy weight, and it was also white people who body shamed me for being too thin at some points in my life that I had no control over. Who did I hear from that "Asians are naturally skinny"? Not my people.

Traditionally, thinness is not ideal in Hmong culture. I've always been skinny shamed for my body from my relatives. I surprisingly didn't receive many fat shaming comments from my relatives for being a normal weight. I received only one fat shaming comment on my thighs. Skinny shaming comments were more frequent though when my weight fluctuated lower. No one expressed a desire to be that thin.

Only white girls expressed that desire, either asking me how my body is so thin or insulting me by calling me an "anorexic bitch" while desiring to be that thin. When not as thin and at a normal healthy weight, I'd be called fat or "fat for an Asian". Who said those words? Not my people.

Who views fat Asians as more American? You. Who views fat Asians as less Asian? You again. Who spread the lie that Asians are naturally thin and don't need to watch what they eat because you equate thinness to health? You. Not my people.

#fuck your white narrative #asian american #hmong american #aapi #beauty standards #asian beauty standards #model minority myth #not your model minority #growing up asian #growing up in a white community #body shaming #skinny shaming #essay #me at a healthy weight vs me at a lower weight difference in body shaming

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daymarkist · 2 years

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(cont.) "There's a stereotype of Asian men being feminine, being subdued, and quiet. They're seen as effeminate, you know - soft features, never in positions of authority, or of power. The irony is that here are Asian drag queens who are embracing and diving deep into a stereotypical feminine presentation, yet gaining so much power and strength and being on top. You put a little dash of makeup, a little dab of makeup, all of a sudden it's like: Wait, what just happened there? I never set out to inspire other people or try to be a role model. I feel kind of weird saying it - but only say that because other people have said so. I have met young people who have warmed my heart when they come up to me and say, 'When I watched you perform, when I saw you in drag, I came out.' Whoa! That's deep! They found a performance that I was probably nervous about, not realizing that it could inspire someone."

— Aleksa Manila, genderqueer drag icon and activist, from the Wing Luke Museum's "Where Beauty Lies" exhibit.

#aleksa manila #beauty #love quotes #drag queen #aapi #happy pride 🌈#lgbtq quotes #genderqueer #asian drag queens #we love to see it #wing luke museum #daymarkist

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authorsamanthapicaro · 2 days

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Book rec time!

In honor or AAPI Heritage Month, I'm recommending Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao.

This Young Adult novel contains the following elements:

-romance with new student

-small town

-family secrets

-growing up POC in a mostly white town

-romance forbidden by parents

-growing up the child of immigrants

-disagreements with parents

-MC learns to stand up for herself

Comment a Young Adult AAPI rec

@gloriacchao

#books #young adult #aapi books #aapi heritage month #teen books #beautiful books #book reviews #book blog #book community #aapi month #diverse reads #diverse books #bipoc books #books recommendations #book reccs #book recs #book recs pls #books and reading

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littlesistersti · 8 months

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Searching for a mask for Halloween made me aware that I have a flat nose

some tutorials out there say get a blank mask for the hard shape and get some cloth (pantyhose or cheesecloth or morphsuit and extra paint for color correcting) stuck on top

except I can't use those plastic/paper blank masks because they all have tall, pointy, narrow noses

I once bought a Venetian mask awhile back (as a kid) and it doesn't fit my nose very well too

guess I'm stuck with just the cloth

#bipoc #aapi #poc nose #flat nose #wide flat nose #halloween masks #halloween costumes #struggle #cosplay struggles #sti speaks #is there a generic name for this problem?#euro-centric features set as default #white beauty #bipoc representation #nose shape #for reference I'm asean #lack of diversity

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scarlett-bitch69 · 1 year

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#covet fashion #my uploads #fashion #beauty #ootd #makeup #ootdgoals #style challenge #right to education #vintage #vintage aesthetic #vintage fashion #aapi month

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nalgonamala · 2 years

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#bdsmgeek #latina #dominicana #philipinas #aapi #curvy and beautiful #curvy girls #sexy breast #sexy buns #ropeplay #ropelove #ropemodel #red rope #jeans #dresses #naughty

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heartbellamy · 1 year

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chloebennet: we had a little red moment thank you @goldhouseco & @bingchen for kicking off AAPI heritage month with the most beautiful gala.

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melonnabar · 1 year

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Me when I wake up after not being on tumblr for 2 days n all of this happens

I have never interacted w this person at all what is going on and why is he being so petty?? The guy is probably 12 considering the way he’s reacting to people yelling at him for not crediting the original artist but hey nothing like a good DMCA on his entire account could do tho rite

Anyways feel free to report the guy or heckle him into deleting the posts since he doesn’t rly seem keen on crediting reposted art

Here r the original links for all of the reposted artwork above!

And the links to the reposter for reports n stuff

#stolen art

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swimmingismywholelife · 1 year

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Paradise

Summary: Christian takes you on a tropical getaway during his time off.

Warnings: Like a singular suggestive comment, just some fluffy vacation vibes really

A/N: Inspired by "Paradise" by NCT 127 and my trip to the Philippines. I actually love doing smaus so I hope you guys like it lol. Also Happy AAPI Heritage Month ❤💛

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yourusername & cmpulisic

Liked by cmpulisic, kaihavertz, gioareyna and 9,194 others

yourusername: Now this is a sight I could wake up to every day

cmpulisic: you're the only sight I need baby

west.mckennie: ......bro

yourusername: I know I thought we taught him better smh

cp10lover: so beautiful.....oh I guess the trees are nice too

chelseablue: do it for the girlies hit us with those Christian pics

yourusername: 👀👀👀

captainam3rica10: hot girl summer but the summer is only hot bc of the girl

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cmpulisic & yourusername

Liked by yourusername, west.mckennie, benchilwell and 23,850 others

cmpulisic: I really do love me some cake by the ocean 😍

yourusername: I've been working really hard on my butt I really appreciate it 🥺

cmpulisic: oh baby I'll appreciate your ass anytime you want me to 🥵

masonmount: there are children on this app get a room pLEASE

itscalledsoccer: Christian has really been waiting his whole life to use that line 💀

y/nbestbabe: I'm not sure if I'm more jealous of y/n or Christian rn

pulisiclover1: I don't swing that way but I will just for her

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yourusername & cmpulisic

Liked by cmpulisic, baaronson7, kepaarrizabalaga and 10,883 others

yourusername: This place where we're dreaming the same dream is paradise 🥰

cmpulisic: God I'm so in love with you

yourusername: not as much as I am with you ❤

y/nchristiansupremacy: that's it I'm jumping onto the train tracks I can't do this anymore

upthechels: WHEN IS IT MY TURN I'M SO LONELY FFS

Taglist: @neverinadream @pulisicsgirl @masonsrem @masonspulisic @bracedes @lizzypotter14 @notsoattractivearenti @thoseboysinblue @mortirolo @lovelynikol16 @chelseagirl98

#christian pulisic #christian pulisic imagine #christian pulisic x reader #christian pulisic smau #Christian pulisic fluff #swimmingismywholelife

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signedjehanne · 1 year

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i'm writing this post because i think that a lot of non AAPI fandom bloggers could benefit from reflecting on how they view both asian cultures and asian people.

to start, we have to understand what cultural exports are. a cultural export is defined as "exchange of ideas, information, art, language and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding". it is most often used to rebrand a country in the wake of propaganda.

in the west specifically, a lot of the largest cultural exports from other countries come from east asia- in forms such as k-pop, j-fashion, idol culture, anime, k-dramas, k-beauty and c-beauty, etc. there also are other notable exports that influence the west's perception of these countries, such as technology.

enjoying these cultural exports isn't inherently bad. enjoying things like anime and kpop isn't cultural appropriation, and it's something that brings together communities around the world. however. the issue arises when people cross the line from "this is a cultural export from this country" to "this is *who* the people from this country are". reducing entire ethnic groups to one component, no matter how "positive" the component is, has far more consequences than people realize.

in essence, it is stereotyping. and it also reduces the perceived humanity of the AAPI community. because these parts of certain cultures are commodified in this way, reducing us as people to these cultural exports carries a heavy risk of commodifying us as *people*. when you as a person and community are perceived as a commodity, people feel like they are entitled to you and your identity. this is seen in stereotypes of asians as submissive and obedient (ESPECIALLY ASIAN WOMEN), and white people essentially playing dress up with being asian (like oli london). it's also seen in stereotypes of us as cold, villainous, and unfeeling (such as the head director of BLI in danger days).

these stereotypes are often a matter of life and death. in the atlanta spa shooting, the shooter confessed that he wanted to "eliminate the temptation" that these asian women represented for him. this is where reducing the AAPI community's humanity ends up.

tying this all back to danger days. we can see where it drew from japanese art and television, but gerard took it too far and ended up dehumanizing asians. and we see this everywhere, in the majority of fandoms, as well as in non fandom interactions. and it needs to fucking stop. because all it does is dehumanize us, and dehumanizing us only causes more violence towards us. it unconsciously feeds into stereotypes, it's the literal definition of orientalism, and it's not okay.

as an aside- i see this also happening with the reduction of chinese people to being the same as the chinese government, which also carries the real world consequences and violence from sinophobia. whether negative stereotypes or ones that seem positive on the surface, reducing a people to one aspect of their country is never acceptable.

if you say dumb bullshit in the replies or tags, you are going to get blocked. i have no bandwidth to deal with white people griping. i am still processing monterrey park and i am weighed down by fear for my family. i will not be nice. i have spent energy explaining this to you in depth, and if you don't want to understand it that's on you.

i also have a post about the person saying they would get the rising sun flag tattooed, here

#seb speaks #mcr #gerard way #danger days #fandom racism #aapi #i KNOW im going to get so much flack for this because bandom hates acknowledging racism #bandom #my chemical romance

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rinissse · 1 year

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Sinophobia affects all AAPI. Anyone who a racist thinks is Chinese is going to catch some of that. Or racists don't give a fuck what your ethnicity is and think we're all the same and will attack you anyways. This applies to all of Asia because not everyone fits a look that you think belongs to different parts of Asia & the Pacific. Even if someone is Chinese, they don't deserve it.

Y'alls sinophobia is showing by:

Bringing up the Chinese government every time someone is discussing anything related to China that has nothing to do with their government. Ex: Chinese language, culture, history, celebrities

Calling Asian people "Bing chilling" or commenting it under a video about China or with any Asian people in it just because John Cena said it. It's like calling Asian people "Squid Game" when that Korean show was popular.

"Ching chong" You know exactly what this is. Don't fucking play dumb.

Thinking "Made in China" is inferior despite the American companies being the one who made that decision and told the Chinese manufacturers to make it exactly to their specs. Prior to this, Americans thought Japanese products were inferior, but now y'all lap up Japanese products. Y'all are mad at the wrong people.

Rebranding Chinese beauty trends as Japanese or Korean.

Stealing beauty content from Chinese creators and labeling it as Japanese or Korean while leaving in whole ass Chinese characters. We can literally still see the Douyin or XiaoHongShu logo in the video you fucking stole. Bonus points if they're also speaking Chinese in the video.

Saying "You're so pretty, I thought you were Korean/Japanese." to a Chinese person.

Attacking literally any Asian person because you thought they were Chinese.

Attacking a Chinese person just because they're Chinese.

Bonus points if you attack an Asian person who is from a country you fetishize. *cough cough hardcore kpop/kdrama fans, koreaboos, weeboos*

Double the bonus points if you're a weeboo hating on China. Japan refuses to acknowledge their crimes against humanity to this day. If you want to look up what Japan did, I am warning you(HUGE TRIGGER WARNING), it will psychologically mess you up.

Triple the racist bonus points if you attack an Asian ethnic minority that was oppressed in the past or is currently being oppressed by the Chinese government.

This literally goes for any culture but hating on Chinese culture is not cute. There are beautiful parts of it. We can appreciate the beautiful parts of it.

Y'alls treatment of Chinese or any Asian restaurant/business. I have like a whole other post of this. We all know Asian food is fire. Don't complain about the food and then demand it to be free + request another serving. If you hate us and our food so much, why are you here asking for more?

Categorizing us into the "good" Asians and the "bad" Asians, like y'all could fucking tell the difference between us. This shows y'all are cool with discrimination too, which is just telling on yourselves.

Doing nothing as Congress mistreated the CEO of Tiktok, calling him "China man", saying China comes to Congress, despite him being from Singapore.

Getting mad at Asian people speaking out on sinophobia and all the anti-China propaganda. It's mostly just thinly veiled racism behind "I hate the Chinese government." You can hate the Chinese government, but you can also be racist at the same time. They can co-exist in you.

Nobody is stopping y'all from boycotting anything made in China, but I don't see anyone tossing out their iPhones.

#Y'all will literally not bat an eyelash to the dehumanization to Asian people #and it's fucking terrifying.#sinophobia #asian #stop aapi hate #stop sinophobia #aapi #aapi heritage month #aapi heritage month 2023 #this post is inspired by the fact that i've heard about Pacific islanders and south asians getting hate during covid #only fromwhat made the news #now imagine the many things that #didn’t make the news

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happy-lemon · 4 months

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List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to simblrs whose sims you adore 💜

Makoa Wells was the result of another attempt at making Keahi Solomon in Sims 4. I couldn't get him to look right, but I realized the result was somehow...better.

Makoa is AAPI. His mom, Hina, is Japanese-Hawaiian (we'll meet her SOON) and his dad, Eddie, was half-Hawaiian.

Originally, Makoa was supposed to be a walking red flag who was dating Amelia and secretly hooking up with Eliana until they realized they'd caught feelings. But Amelia would never date a bad boy and Eliana would never do that to her cousin. (Which is how we ended up with Donovan and CJ in the game. CJ was never meant to be for Eliana, but...)

After Makoa finished the renovations on the BAH, he decided to become a firefighter. I haven't really mentioned it much because it's not germane to their storyline, but he loves it. He comes home exhausted every night, but he's always happy.

Makoa makes beautiful babies. Just wait.

#ts4 #sims 4 #my asks #5 facts #5 facts meme #favorite sim

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pinayelf · 1 year

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I made it just in time! My contribution for AAPI month: Immy in a Filipiniana inspired by gumamela (hibiscus)

it’s not the Philippines’ national flower, but it’s nostalgic to me as it was the flower that grew in front of my childhood home before we immigrated to the US. I thought the petals would make a beautiful skirt

#imryll lavellan #aapi heritage month #aapi month #aapi artists #filipiniana #elves #fantasy #artists on tumblr #art tag #I #immy bahaghari #also inspired by santacruzan dresses but lol I didn’t want any religious ties to this #I was gonna add anahaw leaves but this is so last minute fifkfjfj

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idkwhatimdoingbutslay · 1 year

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Happy AAPI Heritage Month <333

I’m here to appreciate the beautiful, diverse and intersectional AAPI Arcane characters and all of the AAPI individuals who worked on Arcane and gave us this amazing show because where would we be without them :)

Representation for everyone will always matter, even in a universe like Arcane where race as an ideology technically doesn’t exist. AAPI are too often overlooked and harmfully generalized by western media and this feels like a step in the right direction 🤞🏾

So thank you to these wonderful people who give us what so many have been looking for 💕

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