#immigrant

[boycritter]

in a museum with my mother (but it could be anywhere at all)

#oscars art #poetry #prose poetry #latino #mexican #immigrant #not 2 be dramatic but this may be one of my favorite things ive written ever

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A woman who emigrated to the U.S. eats dinner at Ellis Island, November 16, 1920. It cost 25 cents and consisted of soup, bread, meat, potatoes, vegetables, pie, butter, pudding, and coffee. The same meal with a less expensive cut of meat could be bought for 17 cents.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1920s #Ellis Island #immigration #immigrant #dinner #meal #Nov. 16 #16 Nov.

[profeminist]

Happy Lao ban Santa Day!

#fresh off the boat #lao ban santa #fotb #chinese american #immigrant #immigrant experience

[wbmc666]

November WBMC Zine: Tooth, Mouth, Nail by Chris Kim

"tooth, mouth, nail" outlines my experiences starting testosterone and coming out to my family, followed by their backlash in 2021. Part of the struggle was the isolation I felt due to a stark lack of intersectional trans stories, so this comic is a way for me to add to that conversation as a 2nd generation Korean immigrant. Recovery from familial rejection is difficult, but it's possible, and I hope my story speaks to someone out there ~ @veggiecakeface

Tooth, Mouth, Nail is being published as limited run of physical zines, available during November 2023 only!

The WBMC publishes a new zine from trans/queer artists each month and mails them to you! Join at $6/mo to get on our monthly zine mailing list AND a print with your first delivery!

Follow and support Chris’s work @veggiecakeface on Twitter and Insta!

#zine #alt comics #comic #trans #diy #art #gay #queer #wbmc #furry #auto bio #hrt #coming out #transitioning #immigrant #korean

[high-quality-tiktoks]

Florida about to find out🤣

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #funny #lmao #wtf #usa #united states #united states of america #florida #politics #ron desantis #immigrant #immigrants #immigration #job #jobs #work #christianjmaldonado

[alatismeni-theitsa]

#greek diaspora #greek #greek aussie #wog #(last time I checked the term was reclaimed but let me know if it is otherwise) #aussie #immigrant

[haykhighland]

There is something so lonely and devastating about death in the diaspora.

How many of our grandparents died without seeing their siblings because displacement separated them for decades?

How many will be buried in a land where they did not come from? Nowhere near where their parents were buried. Nowhere near their rivers and mountains.

I am so devastated for them. For the loneliness that follows even through death.

#west asia #diaspora #indigenous #armenian #armenia #middle east #artsakh #palestine #middle eastern #second gen #displacement #immigrant #iranian #iran #assyrian #kurdish

[revoltedstates]

My American Civil War novel, Year of Crows, now has a release date! It will be available both in ebook and paperback on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024.

#civil war #american civil war #american #history #lgbt #historical fiction #fiction #novel #book #new #irish #immigrant #new york #me #brendan c hamilton

[whoismims]

The Art of Accumulation in an Age of Decluttering

My mother came of age under British colonial rule in Hong Kong, treated as a second-class citizen and unable to return to her parents’ ancestral home in Hunan province. In the US, she roamed antique malls and flea markets in search of relics, specifically those from China that had somehow made their way overseas and were being peddled by dealers who, back in the 1990s, didn’t know their true value. Instead of magazine subscriptions, we received catalogues in the mail from Christie’s and Sotheby’s, which my mother would study in order to teach herself how to differentiate between what was authentic and what was fake. All I knew as a child was that we had a lot of old things. I didn’t understand their significance to my mother until I fully grappled with my own sense of identity. Through collecting, she keeps alive the dream of cultural belonging, the antiques serving as both connection to and substitute for the melancholic fantasy of a motherland.

From the essay I was most proud of publishing this year about hoarding, art, my immigrant mother, and Marie Kondo.

Image: Song Dong, Waste Not: Song Dong, 2006 (installation view), at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

#my writing #hoarding #art #art writing #art criticism #personal essay #antiques #thrifting #song dong #marie kondo #ornamentalism #anne anlin cheng #chinese diaspora #immigrant #mother #momus

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

for the movie

Stephanie Choi

#alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry #poem #poetry #poems #poet #poets #anthology #tumblr poetry #poem of the day #poetry blog #Stephanie choi #the lengest neoi #everything #everywhere #all at once #everything everywhere all at once #grandmother #poemblr #poetblr #literature #book worm #Chinese #Chinese American #immigrant #family #poems on identity

[eckoz-ofa-hauntedpassion]

#immigrant

[bfpnola]

The appalling rise in recent decades of Hindu nationalism, however, which views Indian and Hindu identity as coterminous and seeks to transform India from a secular democracy into a “Hindu Rashtra”, highlights the dangers inherent in any project of national identity construction. Such a project necessarily runs the risk, as we have seen not just in India but across the world, of degenerating into a crude chauvinism that defines national identity not on any genuinely unifying basis, but rather in terms of the socially-dominant community—in the Indian case, dominant-caste Hindus—at the expense of everyone else. In the process, the rich internal diversity that characterizes any community—imagined or otherwise—is flattened and obscured in favor of a fabricated homogeneity. Likewise, internal structures of oppression such as caste and gender are swept under the rug, and those who speak out against them are lambasted for hurting the cause of national unity—all while that same national cause is twisted to serve explicitly majoritarian ends.

Therein lies the fatal flaw of the nationalist project. By flattening a community in order to imagine it, nationalism—even in its most liberatory, anti-colonial form—allows crucial questions of power and injustice within that community to remain unaddressed, giving the worst tendencies of human society all the room they need to grow and fester beneath the surface until they inevitably spill over. This is due, in large part, to the fact that even as national identity seeks to promote internal unity, its rigid adherence to a given set of borders means that it simultaneously divides people along those same lines, defining itself in opposition to everything that lies beyond them. If my nationality is X, according to our conventional understanding of what it means to “belong” to a given nation, then that necessarily means that I cannot be Y.

Regardless of the country in which we were brought up, every one of us is taught from an early age that national identity is fixed and finite, with rigid boundaries that neatly correspond to those that have been etched on the world map and given the name of Border. We have all been assigned, we are told, membership in a given imagined community, and it is expected that we will stick with that community, no questions asked—that in times of war or recession or other great national need, we will rally around the flag that was stamped onto our foreheads at birth.

The experience of immigration, however, shatters that illusion of fixity. Cracks begin to form in the rigid walls that supposedly enclose a person’s national identity the moment they step foot onto the soil of a new country, slowly expanding as they establish roots and begin to strive, consciously or unconsciously, towards acceptance by an unfamiliar and potentially unwelcoming society. No matter how strongly a person identifies with the nationality of the mother country, it is inevitable that as time goes on these bonds will weaken. In their place, the seeds of a new national identity—that of the destination country—will begin to sprout, nourished by symbolic milestones such as buying a home or applying for citizenship, new roots penetrating into new soil. By the time a second generation comes into the world, endowed perhaps with citizenship rights at the moment of birth, the ties of nationality that bind a diaspora to the motherland are weakened further as these roots extend themselves yet deeper into the new country’s soil.

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#resources #nationalism #hindu nationalism #hindutva #india #community #imagination #immigration #immigrant #second generation

[wbmc666]

November WBMC Zine: Tooth, Mouth, Nail by Chris Kim

"tooth, mouth, nail" outlines my experiences starting testosterone and coming out to my family, followed by their backlash in 2021. Part of the struggle was the isolation I felt due to a stark lack of intersectional trans stories, so this comic is a way for me to add to that conversation as a 2nd generation Korean immigrant. Recovery from familial rejection is difficult, but it's possible, and I hope my story speaks to someone out there ~ @veggiecakeface

Tooth, Mouth, Nail is being published as limited run of physical zines, available during November 2023 only!

The WBMC publishes a new zine from trans/queer artists each month and mails them to you! Join at $6/mo to get on our monthly zine mailing list AND a print with your first delivery!

Follow and support Chris’s work @veggiecakeface on Twitter and Insta!

#zine #alt comics #comic #trans #diy #art #gay #queer #wbmc #furry #hrt #immigrant

[high-quality-tiktoks]

What a clown

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #news #politics #wtf #usa #united states #united states of america #florida #ron desantis #immigration #immigrant #immigrants #briantylercohen

[generalelectionmusings]

#suella braverman #cruella braverman #immigrant #human rights #uk #politics #tory #conservative party #far right #nasty party #UN convention #ukpol

[ferbracket]

Doofenshmirtz Bracket Incorporated

Teacher. ''So, here I am, ready to impart upon these young, sponge-like minds all my vast knowledge of evil sci—I-I mean science. That's right. Regular old science. No evil at all.''

Immigrant. ''I was heading to a golden land of opportunity; a land with a pioneering spirit which welcomed misfits like me! But I ended up in America instead.''

#pnf #phineas and ferb #doofenshmirtz #heinz doofenshmirtz #polls #polls on tumblr #tournament polls #Doofenbracket #Doofenbracket Semifinals #Doof 101 #This Is Your Backstory #Teacher #Immigrant #0x0v0x7