desi people
i am a desi diaspora chick interested in people and their browness in various forms (especially those that might deviate in different ways from the slick bollywood images that i/we regularly consume)
browness is a fluid term used by many in many different ways. i generally use it as we did growing up; desi peeps
I will not put on mehndi this year.
I will not put on mehndi this year.
I will not put on mehndi this year.
On myself or on anyone else.Watch me end up with mehndi anyways.
Kosha Patel
(Written and Directed by: Sameer Asad Gardezi and Kosha Patel; Director of Photography by: B.T. Jackson; Edited by: Kevin Lipnos)
(Source: youtube.com)
Morgan F.P. Andrews - Jana Sanskriti
Jana Sanskriti (Bengali for “People’s Culture”) mixes theater with the political action
(Source: Guardian, via jeevermadness)
I post a lot about the Middle East/South Asia. AND gender AND mental illness AND architecture AND anatomy/medical history AND every other type of history AND boring personal shit no one cares about so I put it under a cut. Hope that helps.
I had two really generous personal insights shared with me in response to the shadism documentary I posted. Wanted to say I read every word. Thank you.
I haven’t published them because they seemed very much like direct messages to me rather than commentary that you wanted me to post.
If you would like me to possibly publish these to my tumblr, you can indicate that when you submit something. :) I’m fresh to the tumblr game so I’m still figuring out how the ‘submit’ option works.
xox,
brownperson.
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i am a desi diaspora chick interested in people and their browness in various forms (especially those that might deviate in different ways from the slick bollywood images that i/we regularly consume)
browness is a fluid term used by many in many different ways. i generally use it as we did growing up; desi peeps
Das Racist - Who’s that - Brown from the Shut Up, Dude mixtape
Das Racist is an Art Rap/Freak Folk/World Music/Hare Krishna Hardcore duo based in Brooklyn, New York, comprised of Queens-born Himanshu Suri, San Francisco-born Victor Vazquez and hypeman DAP aka Ashok Kondabolu. The two met at Vassar Art College in Massachusetts, where Victor was Himanshu’s resident advisor in a “Students of Color for Social Justice” themed Freshman year dormitory.
Like anything that touches on history of communities of brown in regions and specific parts of Canada. Says amongst other things: our histories are here too.
This is why I love my job :)
I recently completed an awesome interview with Mr. Charanjit Saini from Surrey India Arts Club. We talked about his life and his love for Bhangra and he shared some amazing stories such as the one about the first Bhangra team in Williams Lake.
The Punjabi community up there was quite sparse in the early 1970’s and centered around the lumber industry. However there was a desire to start a Bhangra team and because Mr. Saini had just come from the renown Khalsa College Jalandhar Bhangra Team he started the recruitment. At their practices the athletic dance moves and driving Bhangra beat would attract audiences and fans. So much so that the very first Bhangra team in Williams Lake was co-ed and made up of Punjabi Canadian boys and Caucasian girls. The above pictures are newspaper clippings of some early performances of the “Khalsa Dancers” named in honour of the Khalsa College Bhangra Team but with a decidedly Canadian spin.
Writing for Time, Joel Stein thought it might be funny to lament the changes taking place in his hometown of Edison, New Jersey, due to an influx of Indian immigrants. But Kal Penn, writing for the Huffington Post, isn’t laughing.
from the original Times article by Joel Stein:
Eventually, there were enough Indians in Edison to change the culture. At which point my townsfolk started calling the new Edisonians “dot heads.” One kid I knew in high school drove down an Indian-dense street yelling for its residents to “go home to India.” In retrospect, I question just how good our schools were if “dot heads” was the best racist insult we could come up with for a group of people whose gods have multiple arms and an elephant nose.
Kal Penn in the Huffington Post:
Growing up a few miles from Edison, NJ, I always thought it was hilarious when I’d get the crap kicked out of me by kids like Stein who would yell “go back to India, dothead!” I was always ROTFLMAO when people would assume that I wasn’t American. He really captured the brilliant humor in that one too!
Kal’s response and others like it = so necessary! (the closing paragraph that relied too much on competitive opressions, less awesome…but the questioning of why the TIMES editors would a-okay that nonsense was also a good point)
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And I say to thee, race is discursive not visual-biological. So, I got a perm today.
Begin shpeil » » » I’ve been changing my appearance frequently and radically throughout my post-adolescent career as a ferocious asshole. The fact that I haven’t at…
