#Asian and Pacific Islanders

[korra-of-the-watertribe]

Happy Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

#aapiheritagemonth #aapi representation #Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month #asiansincinema #represenation matters #dailycolorfulgifs #asian representation #stop asian hate #atlaedit #disneyedit #everything everywhere all at once #userleila #ivashkovadrian #asian athletes #my graphics #happy aapi heritage month yall!

[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

[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

[yourdailyqueer]

Shaneel Lal

Gender: Transgender non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 22 January 2000  

Ethnicity: Native Fijian (iTaukei and Girmitiya)

Occupation: Activist, model, columnist

Note: They also identify as Vakasalewalewa and Hijra

#Shaneel Lal #transgender #non binary #queer #2000 #native #indigenous #fijian #pacific islander #asian #indian #poc #activist #model #columnist #popular #popular post #200

[icedteaffee]

Blow their shit up and make them famous! Samoan metal band called Shepherds Reign!

#pasifika #polynesian #tongan #fijian #Māori #hawaiian #asian and pacific islander #pacific islander #music #heavy metal

[turntechgaykid]

My Homestuck Kids Headcanons ✨

(Dave: MLM, Rose: Lesbian + Asexual Jade: Demiromantic/Queer + Asexual John(June): Bisexual (+ Transfem))

Low blood Headcanons

Homestuck Kids Headcanons Pt 2

#homestuck #homestuck kids #homestuck headcanon #john egbert #jade harley #dave strider #rose lalonde #black striders & lalondes #pacific islander jade harley #south east asian john egbert

[rinissse]

Sinophobia affects all AAPI. Anyone who a racist thinks is Chinese is going to catch some of that. Or racists don't give a fuck what your ethnicity is and think we're all the same and will attack you anyways. This applies to all of Asia because not everyone fits a look that you think belongs to different parts of Asia & the Pacific. Even if someone is Chinese, they don't deserve it.

Y'alls sinophobia is showing by:

Bringing up the Chinese government every time someone is discussing anything related to China that has nothing to do with their government. Ex: Chinese language, culture, history, celebrities

Calling Asian people "Bing chilling" or commenting it under a video about China or with any Asian people in it just because John Cena said it. It's like calling Asian people "Squid Game" when that Korean show was popular.

"Ching chong" You know exactly what this is. Don't fucking play dumb.

Thinking "Made in China" is inferior despite the American companies being the one who made that decision and told the Chinese manufacturers to make it exactly to their specs. Prior to this, Americans thought Japanese products were inferior, but now y'all lap up Japanese products. Y'all are mad at the wrong people.

Rebranding Chinese beauty trends as Japanese or Korean.

Stealing beauty content from Chinese creators and labeling it as Japanese or Korean while leaving in whole ass Chinese characters. We can literally still see the Douyin or XiaoHongShu logo in the video you fucking stole. Bonus points if they're also speaking Chinese in the video.

Saying "You're so pretty, I thought you were Korean/Japanese." to a Chinese person.

Attacking literally any Asian person because you thought they were Chinese.

Attacking a Chinese person just because they're Chinese.

Bonus points if you attack an Asian person who is from a country you fetishize. *cough cough hardcore kpop/kdrama fans, koreaboos, weeboos*

Double the bonus points if you're a weeboo hating on China. Japan refuses to acknowledge their crimes against humanity to this day. If you want to look up what Japan did, I am warning you(HUGE TRIGGER WARNING), it will psychologically mess you up.

Triple the racist bonus points if you attack an Asian ethnic minority that was oppressed in the past or is currently being oppressed by the Chinese government.

This literally goes for any culture but hating on Chinese culture is not cute. There are beautiful parts of it. We can appreciate the beautiful parts of it.

Y'alls treatment of Chinese or any Asian restaurant/business. I have like a whole other post of this. We all know Asian food is fire. Don't complain about the food and then demand it to be free + request another serving. If you hate us and our food so much, why are you here asking for more?

Categorizing us into the "good" Asians and the "bad" Asians, like y'all could fucking tell the difference between us. This shows y'all are cool with discrimination too, which is just telling on yourselves.

Doing nothing as Congress mistreated the CEO of Tiktok, calling him "China man", saying China comes to Congress, despite him being from Singapore.

Getting mad at Asian people speaking out on sinophobia and all the anti-China propaganda. It's mostly just thinly veiled racism behind "I hate the Chinese government." You can hate the Chinese government, but you can also be racist at the same time. They can co-exist in you.

Nobody is stopping y'all from boycotting anything made in China, but I don't see anyone tossing out their iPhones.

#Y'all will literally not bat an eyelash to the dehumanization to Asian people #and it's fucking terrifying. #sinophobia #asian #stop aapi hate #stop sinophobia #aapi #aapi heritage month #aapi heritage month 2023 #this post is inspired by the fact that i've heard about Pacific islanders and south asians getting hate during covid #only fromwhat made the news #now imagine the many things that #didn’t make the news

[tishrivers]

SASHA COLBY: Pride Today Interview (2023)

#sasha colby #sashacolbyedit #dragraceedit #dragedit #lgbtqedit #dragsource #rpdredit #pocedit #edit** #&* #mother! #and happy asian american and pacific islander month <3 #we stan the 1st hawaiian/indigenous winner of drag race

[black-is-beautiful18]

Just wanted to say that it is alright to be fans of books like LegendBorn, Children of Blood and Bone, and Raybearer but if you are not Black you are not the targeted audience. They deserve your support but the author is not writing with a nonblack audience in mind. The same goes for other nonwhite authors no matter where they come from. Usually these authors are writing for themselves and ppl who look like them. Seeing ourselves is much more important than whether or not white readers like it.

#black authors #latine authors #asian authors #pacific island authors #indigenous authors #brown authors #authors of color #legendborn #children of blood and bone #raybearer #please enjoy these books but remember who they are for #be mindful #that’s all I’m saying #unique writes

[humanrightsconnected]

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Find out today from the following 5 organizations how you can support the AAPI community!

➡️ 18 Million Rising (18MR) 

➡️ AAPI Women Lead

➡️ Asian American Federation (AAF)

➡️ Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)

➡️ The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)

📸 by Katie Godowski on Pexels

#asian pacific american heritage month #asian #asians #asian american #asian americans #pacific islander #aapi #chinese american #korean american #filipinx #pinoy pride #asian lives matter #stop asian hate #stop aapi hate #anti asian racism #protect asian lives

[smashpages]

Catwoman #55 (DC, May 2023) Asian American & Pacific Island (AAPI) Heritage Month variant cover by Frank Cho and Sabine Rich

#catwoman #asian american and pacific islander heritage month #comic covers #comics #dc #variant covers #frank cho #sabine rich #dc comics

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

So, this week we’re replacing our usual wood engravings with color woodcuts instead because we wanted to show off some of the exquisite original wood block prints from a 2-volume set of contemporary Japanese woodcuts. The volumes have not been cataloged yet because the title and publication information are in Japanese and we have not had them translated yet. The title (we believe) is on the cover of the book, which we show here.

The two volumes contain 24 original prints by different artists showcasing traditional techniques with modern sensibilities. Each print is stored in a page composed of a polyethylene sleeve that the print can be removed from. Please click or tap on the images for title and artist information.

View more posts with Japanese prints.

#Japanese prints #wood block prints #color woodcuts #woodcuts #Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month #AAPI Heritage Month #Japan #Japanese #Wood Engraving Wednesday

[arcadialedger]

Wanted to highlight two Pacific Islander properties coming up for PI part of AAPI Heritage Month!

The first is ‘Hailey’s On It!”, a new Disney Channel show starring the voice of Moana, Auli’i Cravalho.

The second is middle grade book ‘Lei and the Fire Goddess’ by own voices author Malia Maunkea.

Both come out soon and you should absolutely support them!

#pacific islander #hailey’s on it #aapi heritage month #aapi month #asian american pacific islander heritage month #hawaiian #hawaii #pacific islander books #auli’i cravalho #lei and the fire goddess #the arcadia ledger

[rachy-chel]

Maysia 1: OOTD/what’s in my bag

Hello everybody look at all this stuff I got❗️

#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 #procreate #art #my art #artists on tumblr #drawing #illustration

[dnpanimationstudioclone]

AAPI Heritage Month🌸🌺

Anne Boonchuy and Marcy Wu, Amphibia

Sewer Queen, Craig of the Creek

Molly McGee, The Ghost & Molly McGee

Reagan Ridley, Inside Job

Ryan & Min-Gi Infinity Train

Mark Grayson, Invincible

Miko Kubota, Glitch Techs

Lilo and Nani, Lilo & Stitch

Moana

What do u think? Any other AAPI characters u know? I’d love to know💖

#asian character #pacific islander character #lilo and stitch #gltich techs #the ghost and molly mcgee #amphibia #Craig of the creek #invincible #inside job #moana #infinity train #AAPI heritage month