#AAPI

[palipunk]

Happy AAPI month! I wanted to do something Palestine-related so here’s a wedding costume and breakdown from Al-Dahiriya, a village south of Hebron in the West Bank. 

#Palestine #my art #digital art #west asia #aapi #artists on tumblr #i got really inspired by a piece rafi did awhile ago so rafi if you see this ily #original art #traditional clothing #Folk Clothing #traditional jewelry

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #aapi #florida #ron desantis #model minority #crt #model minority myth #critical race theory #racism #white supremacy

[ssavaart]

Day 14 of my Hair Journal was painting during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI).

I reached out to Professor Wayne Quilliam who specialized in photography of Aboriginal people (who works with the Aboriginal people and gets permission to photograph them) and he gave me permission to reference his photography for my portrait.

https://aboriginal.photography/

For the background, I referenced the traditional Aboriginal Dot Painting.

I always find it so interesting to paint people from all over the world. Though I bet traveling and doing it in person would be far more interesting than from my little Hobbit Hole.

Still... I really enjoyed it.

#aboriginal #aapiheritagemonth #aapi #hairjournal #aboriginalart #apahm #apaeverywhere #indiginous #art #traditional art #artists on tumblr #watercolor art #watercolor #drawing #art nouveau

[soranatus]

Batgirls #18 AAPI variant cover by Crystal Kung

#dc comics #batman #batgirl #cassandra cain #aapi #variant cover

[heartrender6]

happy pride month to:

AAPI queers who never get clocked as queer or get surprised reactions to people finding out you're queer

AAPI queers who have no AAPI queer spaces

AAPI queers who feel like they have to choose between AAPI culture and queer culture

AAPI queers who are alienated from AAPI spaces

AAPI queers who are alienated from queer spaces

AAPI queers who are swept under the rug

AAPI queers in the closet

AAPI queers out of the closet

AAPI queers who white queers refuse to date or even acknowledge

AAPI queers who are constantly fetishized

AAPI queers who live in America

AAPI queers who don't live in America

AAPI queers who live in countries where you can’t be openly queer

AAPI trans and aspec people

AAPI queers who are neurodivergent

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO AAPI QUEERS

#bishangzoy #pride #pride month #aapi #queer asian

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

My staff pick this week is the trade edition of The Tale of the Shining Princess by Japanese-born writer Hisako Matsubara (b.1935) and Japanese-Canadian artist-printmaker Naoko Matsubara (b.1937), published by Kodansha International LTD. Tokyo, Japan in 1966. 

As a artist-printmaker and bookmaker who makes woodcuts, I am greatly inspired by Naoko’s prints. Naoko Matsubara’s work carries on traditions of Japanese printmaking while having its own contemporary flavor. Her woodcuts are ecstatic, they are vibrating with movement. Her use of bold shapes and the white line of the the carving tool makes the most of what woodcut has to offer. In the book form, the active images carry the reader’s eyes through the book space. Her use of negative space activates the page. Additionally, her woodcuts have translated beautifully to commercial printing. 

The Matsubara sisters are daughters of a senior Shinto priest, and were raised in Kyoto. Both studied, lived, and worked in the United States. Hisako received her Master of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State College, moving to Germany where she continued her studies and became a prominent writer, publishing her work in Japanese, English, and German. In the 1980s she moved back to the United States, this time to California where she worked at Stanford University. 

Naoko received her Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. After her studies she traveled across Europe and Asia. She returned to the United States and became the personal assistant to the artist and wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg, an artist who has been featured many times on our blog. Naoko taught at Pratt University in New York and at the University of Rohde Island. She also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a time. Naoko is currently living and working in Canada in Oakville, Ontario, where she continues to work and exhibit nationally. 

The work of both Hisako and Naoko have had great influence inside the United States and around the world. So lets celebrate their accomplishments! 

This book has end sheets of mulberry paper with inclusions of Bamboo leaves, the cover is a red textured paper with a gold stamped design by Naoko. 

View some of our other AAPI selections for this month.

View our other Staff Picks.

- Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#staff pick of the week #The Tale of The Shining Princess #hisako matsubara #naoko matsubara #Japanese artists #Japanese writers #Japan #AAPI Hertitage Month #Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month #AAPI #canadian artists #trade edition #Matsubara #woodcuts #printmaking #color printmaking #fiction #stories #teddy

[mysteriouspercentage]

happy aapi heritage month, loving and friendly reminders

stop erasing pacific islanders or i'll rip out ur spine

asians outnumber pacific islanders by millions and more often than not this month gives CRUMBS to pacific islanders and it's honestly, transparently anti-indigenous at this point.

pacific islanders are melanesian, micronesian, and polynesian. these identities are not homogenous or interchangeable, but are deeply historically connected.

filipinos are not pacific islander and we are not discussing this further

(i am not pacific islander so if anyone from that community wants to add more friendly reminders onto this post, pls do 💛)

east asians are not the only asians

despite being the face of "asian-ness" in the us, there are actually more countries in asia than south korea, north korea, japan, and china.

celebrate southeast asians !

celebrate south asians !

celebrate west asians !

celebrate central asians !

celebrate north asians !

there is so so much diversity in the pacific islander and asian experiences worldwide, and it's well past time we celebrate all of the facets of our identities

celebrate indigenous asians !

celebrate asians who aren't mixed with white !

celebrate dark-skinned asians !

end the diaspora wars !

we need to stand together in community as we face down the capitalist, imperialist, white supremacist machine. uplift each other, and hold each other accountable, always

#aapi heritage month #aapi #asian #pacific islander #asian american #k thats 5 bye

[callese]

#stop going to hawaii #hawai’i #occupied hawaii #hawaii travel #hawaii #modern day colonialism #us colonialism #AAPI #AAPI heritage month

[midautumngame]

The Real World & the Spirit World

#2d animation #animation #indie game #game dev #indie dev #magical girl #asian diaspora #asian culture #aapi #animated trailer #indie games #gamedev #indiedev #video games #gaming #midautumn #midautumn game #gif #gif set

[gothgleek]

#beef #beef netflix #ali wong #steven yeun #a24 #asian american #Asian pride #intergenerational trauma #parents #Asian #aapi #tuca and bertie #emotion #emotions #mine #me

[brianwithanh]

Hey! I haven’t posted in a year, and haven’t posted with any regularity since Star vs the Forces of Evil ended in 2019 because, let’s be real here, the SVTFOE fandom was the reason I started posting on here in the first place. But that ends now! (Well, for today, until I am legally allowed to tell you more.)

Over the past year I have been writing songs and some preliminary score for an upcoming Netflix series called Jentry Chau vs the Underworld, continuing my monopoly on animated series with “vs” in the title. It was just announced yesterday, and you can read about it here.

But if you don’t feel like clicking away, here’s the gist:

• Created by the brilliant and wonderful Echo Wu, who is also the showrunner

• Stars Ali Wong as the title character (and who is also an executive producer). Also starring Bowen Yang, Lucy Liu, Jimmy O. Yang, Sheng Wang, Lori Tan Chinn, and K-pop idol Woosung.

• Plot synopsis! “[Ali] Wong will voice Chinese American teen Jentry Chau, who, while living in a small Texas town, discovers a demon king is hunting her for the very same powers she’s worked to repress her entire life. As a result, Jentry must balance the horrors of high school and fighting an underworld’s worth of monsters. But she’ll get a little help from her weapons-expert great aunt and a millennia-old jiangshi, also known as a Chinese hopping vampire.”

From what I have seen and worked on so far, the show is amazing and unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and I can’t wait for you all to watch and hear it. (Probably next year? Not sure.) There are a ton of original songs, and there will also be an official album release, and get ready, because we are going HARD.

#netflix #aapi #aapi representation #jentry chau vs the underworld #jentry #ali wong #bowen yang #lucy liu #woosung #jimmy o. yang #jentry chau vs. the underworld

[rachy-chel]

Maysia 2: new year

#maysia #maysia2023 #maysia 2023 #artph #aapi #aapi heritage month #aapi month #asian american pacific islander heritage month #filipino #filipino american #asian #asian american #digital art #art #my art #artists on tumblr #procreate #drawing #illustration

[sew-much-to-do]

DIY Strawberry Shiratama Dango

Strawberry Shiratama Dango is a dessert often made during the spring to celebrate Hinamatsuri (Girls day). This traditional Japanese dessert recipe is soft, chewy and easy to make!

#DIY #recipe #dessert #sweet #treat #strawberry #shiratama #dango #mochi #hinamatsuri #how to #make it yourself #tutorial #japan #japanese #aapi #aapi heritage month #aapi month #cute #kawaii #pink

[system-of-a-feather]

To white people out there, if there is a POC open and willing to call out racist and problematic behavior, the best thing to do to be an anti-racist ally is to support the POC trying to speak and limit the amount of which you add your two cents.

While the intent is good and appreciated and actually helpful when there isn't a POC around to speak for themselves, white people talking about the complex issues that POC bring up in mixed spaces will always make space for misunderstanding, removing nuance, and distorting the message POC are trying to say.

Always remember, as much as you care and try to learn about the issues POC have, you will not know the topic more in depth, more personally, and more intensely than someone with lived experience.

This also applies to POC that disagree with what most POC say.

If a POC disagrees with what you've heard other POC saying, it is not your place to tell them that they are wrong - you don't have the life experience to understand the topic enough to argue at other POC. Leave POC discourse with POC to other people who have the lived experience.

Know your place and stay in your lane, else you run a huge risk of being a white knight and speaking over POC and derailing the Point of any complaints that POC are trying to get heard.

#syscourse #discourse #conversysion #sys conversation #sysconversation #this is not related to syscourse it came up in an independent place #but its relevant #dear white people #poc #poc system #white knight #white knighting #aapi #actuallyaapi #actually aapi #alter: xiv

[moonlightsapphic]

Uh guys, in case you aren't all caught up, the graphic novel that started as a little queer comic on Tumblr by ND Stevenson (creator of Shera: Princesses of Power) has been adapted by Netflix into an adorable movie about the contemporary genderqueer experience. Go watch Nimona. RIGHT NOW. (Also read the book!)

The movie also features an API gay couple. Ambrosius Goldenloin is an Asian American descendant of the revered knight, Gloreth, and he dyes his hair blonde to match hers and fit the white saviour image that the public expects from him. He is manipulated golden child of a conservative white woman trying to assert control over the kingdom. Ballister Boldheart is a darker-skinned (desi! muslim!) British Pakistani sweetheart who had to bootstrap his way to the top and still couldn't win model minority status with the head of the institute, and is framed for crimes he didn't commit and condemned by the state. The character designs are both modeled after their voice actors, Eugene Lee Yang and Riz Ahmed. Both actors have done extensive DEI work for the API LGBTQ+ community and visibility!

They are archenemies. They are lovers. They are husbands but also kind of divorced. They will find their way back to each other because they are simply victims of the same system, and they are just so soft for each other and what they want to protect. They are also Nimona's dads. They're slightly different from how they were in the book, but I'm so glad for the changes. And I'm so glad for what remained exactly the same as ND Stevenson envisioned years ago:

#nimona #nd stevenson #gay #bi #queer #bisexual #genderqueer #lgbtq+ #lgbtq pride #trans #genderfluid #api #aapi #asian american #british asian #korean american #british pakistani #queer muslim #achillean #mlm #she ra and the princesses of power #spop #netflix nimona #nimona (2023) #queer asian #desi queer #model #model minority #white supremism #white supremacy

[vyeoh]

Hey trans people, especially trans kids of immigrants; how did you come out to your parents? I'm trying to get advice since every source I've read online has been the aftermath and not the actual process

#vio.txt #like. how do you explain this concept to ur parents. it does not really exist in mother my language...... #at least not in my parents' generation's cultural conception #if you haven't come out yet pls dint give imput....like no offense intended im just not looking for ur pov #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt pride #lgbtqia #trans pride #coming out #poc #bipoc #aapi