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
Subramaniam and Nagarajan were among the six couples in Washington state that were denied marriage licenses by King County, represented by the Northwest Women’s Law Center and Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund.
V.Vo of Sepia mutiny kindly brings you translation for that viral shit sri lankan mothers say video:
I will helpfully subtitle this for you.
Amma: Eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat EAT
Translation: I love you
Amma: [In this scenario] you will die; [in that scenario] you will die
Translation: If anything ever happened to you I don’t know what I’d do
Amma: If you wind up in hospital I’m not coming!
Translation: I would be there in a hot minute
My mom actually started handing these out to trick or treating kids after we ran out of candy yesterday HAHA -_____-
(Source: biryaniii)
I found this awesome picture of my grandfather. I really hope this swag is hereditary.
My mom as a Kid!
Just got a portable Photoscanner and there are a bunch of amazing pictures at my nani’s house. Gonna be posting some before I leave for America!
This was a poster created to bring advocacy around Prop 8 (same-sex marriage) to the South Asian community. The image was created by the folks at Trikone. Here is the Sepia Mutiny post on it. Circa 2008.
Trikone. Will be posting more of there content soon. Really happy to learn about this org.
She got me a Priyanka Chopra CD
& a DVD of the movie Asambhav with Piggy Chops in it.
ALL FROM JACKSON HEIGHTS!
I guess as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize how difficult it is to “fit in” with certain crowds or groups. Take my background for example. Now brace yourself. I am Pakistani/Christian/Punjabi/American-Born man. Now that’s a lot to digest. So family is from Pakistan (formerly part of India…
short excerpt:
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 Tamil…Despite the language barrier, I was determined to document her life….But when I tried to record her talking about the amazing decisions she made, she would refuse to: “What amazing? It was just life!”
