December 2010
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“When you wear your heart on your sleeve, make sure your shirt is f’ing dope.”
– Mindy Kaling (via miss-printed)
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“When you wear your heart on your sleeve, make sure your shirt is f’ing dope.”
– Mindy Kaling (via miss-printed)
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Russell Peters is Getting a Sitcom on NBC →
I agree with your trepidations. But I do have some (possibly naive) faith because:
a) he’s said stuff like:“Developing a TV pilot is great, but I’m never accepting typecast roles. If they offer me a million dollars to do a shuffling, bumbling Indian guy they can keep the million bucks.” (source) b) In the book* about his life, he’s written about how he’s turned down...
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“And the only reason I put my nose into economics is because its telling too many...”
– Vandana Shiva as transcribed from this talk
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Watchseriously, solidly awesome set.
michi:
if you don’t know hari kondabalu, now you know. he is ah-MAAAA-zing!
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Watchseriously, solidly awesome set.
michi:
if you don’t know hari kondabalu, now you know. he is ah-MAAAA-zing!
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Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts... →
article via left turn: notes from the global intifada
thatsglobalizationbitches:
everyday it seems like pakistan becomes more and more the boner-iffic wet dream for all of the west’s orientalist fantasies… pakistani journalist madiha tahir opens up a can of analysis on that
pakistani:
By Madiha R. Tahir Date Published: December 1, 2010
Madiha R. Tahir is a freelance journalist based in...
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Desi Families: An acticle by Shubha Bala on the... →
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Despite my appreciation for my history, I never learned Tamil. I tried when I got older. My cousin and I took lessons in Toronto with Sri Lankan kids who pronounced everything completely differently from my family….
…My grandmother taught herself English, ultimately understanding it better than I understand...
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“Water slips down a concrete wall.
In the plaza, she touches a metal table, a...”
– Meena Alexander, “Fifth Avenue Plaza,” which is part of the larger poem “Rumours for an Immigrant.” (via jeevermadness)
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“The sentence ‘white men are saving brown women from brown men’ has...”
– S. Morton in Gayatri Spivak: ethics, subalternity and the critique of postcolonial reason
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“The sentence ‘white men are saving brown women from brown men’ has...”
– S. Morton in Gayatri Spivak: ethics, subalternity and the critique of postcolonial reason
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So it goes with Desi relatives
shorambles:
—within the first fifteen minutes of seeing me, my aunt remarked that it looked like I’d gained a little weight. Five minutes later, she’s urging me to eat three sandwiches. Half an hour later, she’s piled rice and curry on my plate. MLID
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“Inferential racism, in general, is “invisible” because it is not considered to...”
– Vijay Prashad, The Karma of Brown Folk
After witnessing an overt, malicious expression of antiblack racism by a desi man recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about this chapter. Condescension and inferential racism slips into overt racism all too often, but it’s too simple to dismiss malicious...
“Inferential racism, in general, is “invisible” because it is not considered to...”
– Vijay Prashad, The Karma of Brown Folk
After witnessing an overt, malicious expression of antiblack racism by a desi man recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about this chapter. Condescension and inferential racism slips into overt racism all too often, but it’s too simple to dismiss malicious...
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So it goes with Desi relatives
shorambles:
—within the first fifteen minutes of seeing me, my aunt remarked that it looked like I’d gained a little weight. Five minutes later, she’s urging me to eat three sandwiches. Half an hour later, she’s piled rice and curry on my plate. MLID
“Water slips down a concrete wall.
In the plaza, she touches a metal table, a...”
– Meena Alexander, “Fifth Avenue Plaza,” which is part of the larger poem “Rumours for an Immigrant.” (via jeevermadness)
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“…Spivak invents a sentence summarizing the repression of Hindu widow...”
– S. Morton in Gayatri Spivak: ethics, subalternity and the critique of postcolonial reason
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Subversive Tumblrs
Q: I love that you are finding and posting “subversive tumblrs.” Do consider your own tumblr subversive?
brownpeople answer:
Thanks for the comment. Hmm. No. I think of this tumblr as a repository of stuff I like and is not inherently subversive in itself by design. At least not in the way that tumblrs like muslims doing things or asians not studying, privilege denying dude or...
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Subversive Tumblrs
Q: I love that you are finding and posting “subversive tumblrs.” Do consider your own tumblr subversive?
brownpeople answer:
Thanks for the comment. Hmm. No. I think of this tumblr as a repository of stuff I like and is not inherently subversive in itself by design. At least not in the way that tumblrs like muslims doing things or asians not studying, privilege denying dude or...