Celebrating the Lunar New Year: Origins, Customs, Traditions, and Festivities

Celebrating the Lunar New Year: Origins, Customs, Traditions, and Festivities

The History and Significance of the Lunar New Year The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is a holiday that is celebrated by many East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. It is a time for families to come together and celebrate the new year, as well as pay respects to their ancestors. The origins of the Lunar New Year can be traced back to ancient China, where it was a time to…

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High Altitude Thrills: The Shandur Polo Festival

Shandur Polo Festival: Celebrating the Sport of Kings The Shandur Polo Festival is an annual event held in the Shandur Pass, located in the northern region of Pakistan. This festival is renowned for being the highest polo ground in the world, situated at an altitude of approximately 3,700 meters above sea level. Polo teams from different regions of Pakistan, particularly from Gilgit-Baltistan…

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Things I wish women were learning from true crime podcasts: how to spot early warning signs of abusive relationships, how to escape abusive relationships, how easily domestic violence can escalate to murder, how incredibly unlikely it is to be the victim of a crime done by a complete random stranger as opposed to friends and family

What women are learning from true crime podcasts: I am in CONSTANT danger and every day I survive without being murdered by a serial killer is a miracle. I should react to everyone I meet with distrust and paranoia and live my life as if I am in mortal peril and if anyone suggests that might not be healthy then they just don't understand what it is to Be A Woman In Today's Society

So... I saw this post that screenshot the discourse between two Black women on Twitter over the usage of "Rest in Power" for Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation is appopriate. As non-Black leftists, I don't think we have a right to wade into the discourse among Black leftists in regards to this. However, I am disappointed and unsettled by some of the notes left on the post by non-Black users:

Black culture, AAVE in this case, has already has been appropriated for a long time, and the term, "Rest in Power" has been co-opted to hell and back by non-Black people. Black people on Twitter have said that they were being harassed for their criticism over using "Rest in Power" for Aaron Bushnell:

It is important for us as supporters of Palestinian liberation to acknowledge and honor Aaron Bushnell, I also believe that for non-Black allies of Palestinian liberation, we can do that in a way that do not co-opt the language of Black radical movements and definitely does not dismiss the concerns and critiques of our fellow Black allies. Please remember that we always have to be aware of perpetuating antiblackness within the Free Palestine movement. Are we being inclusive in our activism or are we just being performative?

Here are some tweets by Black Twitter users on this:

forever annoyed by the wannabe activism that got so much worse during the pandemic that so many younger people seem to primarily abide by now. where almost all their "action" is online-based and heavily focused on media consumption and "problematic people". it drives me so crazy. i don't know how to tell you that going after a musician or actor or comedian because of their views or statements is the least productive form of activism and i honestly wouldn't even count it as such. if you want to call yourself an activist you actually need to ACT. not just talk online about how person xyz is evil and be done for the day, or say book/movie xyz is problematic and then log off, that's not enough, that doesn't actually DO anything

call local officials, go to protests, talk to people at your uni/school, boycott brands. hell, even talk to your parents about what's going on in Palestine, or other current events, many older people have conservative views, not because of inherent bigotry, but because they don't have enough information and grew up in a media propaganda bubble. or just talk about ongoing events online, keep the pressure on the public and don't let people lean back and forget. all that are actual forms of activism

i'll never stop being mad at the new wave social media wannabe activism that lets people think they're done with their Activism Activity of the day if they called timothee chalamet or noah schnapp a bad person. girl, yeah they are, but actually do Anything else too, that's not the activism you apparently think it is😭

Ok so important question: thinking about dnd classes, wouldn’t strippers and sexworkers count as a kind of bard? If bards can be non musical (poetry, literary, etc) wouldn’t sexwork be part of that as a means of entertainment?

The Jackson 5 used to cut up on stage!!! 🙌🏿

sokka hates the fire nation but nonetheless subscribes to their logic through internalizing his own dehumanization, albeit in the name of sacrificing what is necessary to resist imperialism. on the other hand, aang refuses to sacrifice his humanity, which is intrinsically tied to the culture that was deemed deserving of extermination, and by recognizing the fullness of his personhood and his intrinsic right to exist, he defeats the tenets of imperialism on an ideological battleground. that is why it is so crucial that aang’s influence over sokka, as an air nomad, and as someone who did not grow up under the looming shadow of colonialism and genocide, is what helps him regain the childhood he had forsworn in the name of war—his laughter, his joy, and his humanity.

i think it’s hilarious that we all immediately clocked trent as gay the second we laid eyes on him and we were fucking right

獨竹漂 (du2zhu2piao1; single bamboo drifting) is a folk skill in northern Guizhou where performers stand on a ~15 cm wide bamboo pole and hold a thin bamboo pole to use as a paddle. Originating in the Qin and Han dynasties, it was used as a form of transportation for the people living on either side of the Chishui River. Nowadays, it has transformed into a folk sport, with performances taking place during the Dragon Boat Festival and events held in various sports competitions.

OP (杨柳/Yang Liu) has practised the skill for 18 years now, combining traditional practices with modern performances for her shows.

(See my other post here for an idea of what her shows look like and my tag for bamboo drifting here for more)

MY Holy Trinity™ of esc

hc mizu learns English by reading shakespeare and attending plays during her free time while in london ooouuuuoohuh uuhuhoooouuuuuoouuh

no but really the focus on pronouns Determining Actual Gender And Having Unique Social Roles in lgbt spaces is absolutely bizarre and beyond any form of basic material analysis of gender it exists in the real world. like speaking from experience you can literally be a stone butch lesbian who goes out of ur way to exclusively dress in traditionally masculine clothes, who uses a masculine name, who intentionally and explicitly plays a complex and deeply nonconforming gender role as both social performance art and for personal fulfilment, and then get lumped in by other lgbt people in the category of "she/her type" (and, more broadly, if you use she/her and are afab, you inevitably get labeled as 'cis' regardless of your actual gender performance as interpreted by the world writ large) just because you dont care enough about pronouns to determine and enforce the use of any others for yourself

Pro-Palestine demonstrators disrupt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Nov. 23 2023 (x) (photo by Brendan McDermid)

A Jeff Satur Gifset | Call Me by Fire S3: “《吸引定律》 The Law of Attraction”

This performance was UNHINGED. Completely and utterly insane. Jeff in chains? Jeff doing rock and roll? Flamethrowers?! Playing a guitar with a goddamn power drill??!! Considering this was the song no one else wanted, Team Jeff KILLED. IT.

BONUS (*the only appropriate reaction) >>>

♡ atzsource’s atinyblr revival event ♡

week one: cute bias moment or sexy bias moment ↳ deja vu 210916