#asians are human

[parrdonatesinizvarmi]

5 Ekim: Bugün var edildim. Buradayım. Varım. Müthiş bir duygu bu. Var olduğumu henüz annem ve babam bilmiyor.

Bir elma çekirdeğinden bile küçüğüm. Ama ne de olsa, ben benim. Varım ya! Bu bana yetiyor. Henüz bedenim belli belirsiz, yüzüm yok ama, varlığımı ve benliğimi hissedebiliyorum. Bir kız olacağım ve baharda çiçekleri seveceğim.

19 Ekim:

Biraz büyüdüm. Kımıldamam mümkün değil. Annem henüz farkında değil ama onun kanıyla besleniyorum. Kalbini dolaşıp gelen sımsıcak kan bana geliyor. Beni sevecek bir kalbin kıpırtılarını şimdiden hissediyorum. Annem beni çok sevecek. Annem için güzel birsürpriz olacağım.

23 Ekim:

Hiç göremediğim bir el ağzımı biçimlendirmeye başladı. Dudaklarımda onun dokunuşunu hissediyorum. Bu "el"in dokunduğu yerler dudağım damağım oluyor. Düşünün bir yıl sonra bu elin dokunduğu yerde tebessümler açacak, güleceğim. Dudağımdan ve dilimden sözler dökülecek. Herhalde önce "Anne!" diyeceğim. Anne duyuyor musun beni? Seninle konuşacağım. Sana güleceğim. Kimilerine göre hâlâ daha var değilmişim… Nasıl olur? Varım ve gülücükler sunacak dudaklarım da olmak üzere ya… Hem sonra bir ekmek kırıntısı ne kadar küçük olursa olsun yine ekmektir. Öyle değil mi anneciğim? Ah bir konuşabilsem!

27 Ekim:

Bugün pek mutluyum. İçimde tatlı bir kıpırtı başladı. Artık bir kalbim var. Kalbim atmaya başladı. Hayatım boyunca böyle atıp duracak. Sevgilerle dolduracağım kalbimi. Tıpkı anneminki gibi... Annem bedeninde iki kalbin birden atmaya başladığını bilseydi ne kadar sevinirdi! Duyuyor musun anne?

2 Kasım:

Her gün biraz daha büyüyorum. Kollarım ve bacaklarım da biçimlenmeye başladı. Hele bir büyüsün kollarım bak nasıl kucaklayacağım seni anneciğim. Şu ayaklarım da tamamlansın da, beraber çiçekli bahçemizde yürürüz. Belki birlikte okula gideriz.

12 Kasım:

Ah evet… Bunlar, bunlar ne kadar sevimli ve küçük şeyler. Aman Allah'ım parmaklarım da çıkmaya başladı. Bunlarla çiçek toplayacağım, annemin elini tutacağım, kalem tutacağım. Belki de güzel bir şiir yazacağım. Anneciğim, orada mısın? Ellerimi ellerinin arasına koymak için sabırsızlanıyorum.

20 Kasım:

Oh, nihayet.. Annem doktora gitti. Burada olduğumu öğrendi.. Yaşasın! Doktor teyze özel bir cihazla gördü beni. Ultrason diyorlarmış. Resmimi bile çekti. Sevinmiyor musun anneciğim? Seneye kalmaz kollarının arasında olacağım…

25 Kasım:

Artık babam da burada olduğumu biliyor. Fakat henüz kız olduğumun farkında değiller. Onlara sürpriz yapacağım..

10 Aralık:

Bugün yüzüm tamamlandı. Artık iki güzel gözüm, bir küçük burnum, dudaklarım ve yanağım var… Anneme benziyorum galiba…

13 Aralık:

Artık çevreme bakabiliyorum. Etrafım çok karanlık ama olsun. Yine de mutluyum. Yaşıyorum ve varım. Kısa bir süre sonra gün ışığını görebileceğim, renkleri ve çiçekleri tanıyacağım. Rüyamda gördüm. Dünyada gökkuşağı diye bir şey varmış.. Onu çok merak ediyorum.. Anneciğim, babacığım sizin yüzünüzü de göreceğim. Tanışacağız…. Mutlu olacağız. Gülüşeceğiz..

24 Aralık:

Kulaklarım daha iyi duyuyor artık. Anneciğim, senin kalbinin seslerini duyuyorum. Benim kalbimin atışlarını da sen duyabiliyor musun? Hatta sesini bile tanıyabiliyorum. Sesin ne kadar tatlı… Hiç duymadığım bir şey bu… Güzel ve sağlıklı bir kız olacağım. Kollarında uyuyacağım, yüzüne bakacağım, o tatlı sesini dinleyeceğim. Benim için ninni de söyleyecek misin anneciğim? Sen de beni özlüyorsundur mutlaka… Beni koklayacaksın.. Çok seveceksin, değil mi?

28 Aralık:

Anne burada bir şeyler oluyor. Doktor abla neden mutsuz bakıyor böyle... Sen acı çekiyor gibisin. Kalp seslerin değişti... Sustun. Benimle niye konuşmuyorsun anne? Anne… Anne… Anneciğim… Yüzümde soğuk bir şey hissediyorum. Anne, yüzümü parçalıyorlar... Anne bir şeyler yap… Anne… Kolumu çekiyorlar anne… Canım yanıyor anne... Anne… Ayaklarımı parçalıyor bu şey anne... Beni sana bağlayan damarı kopardılar anne… Anne kalbimi parçalıyorlar… Anneciğim… Anne… Anne… An…

Ah! Kürtajınız ta-mamlandı hanımefendi. Geçmiş olsun

#egeninincisi #karantina #lostonyoubabe #asians are human #tuzlugreyfurt #kim gaon #stop asian hate #toonami #the devil judge #gelmemeyegidenadam

[dumbheartache]

#iran #iranian #iranian revolution #persian #persia #stop the asian hate #human rights #pray for the world #help

[always-a-joyful-note]

Enstars sure is an experience. Did I miss anything?

#are you guys all okay? i definitely am not okay #this is not the type of media that i usually go for yet it is EXACTLY the type of media that i would like #so many gaps so many stories WAY TOO MUCH READING I DONT HAVE THE TIME #i know i missed a lot because ive only watched the anime and read the main music story up to ch 4 of the second part #and i have read some events stories that were free #and maybe one or two outside from translations #but like thats it #this is like reading orv and getting hit with its deep metas on human life and the importance of stories #but instead im being clobbered by the most deranged storylines known to man (and again. i read ORV and am a bsd fan) #this isnt fantasy but there is nothing realistic about enstars and i unfortunately am attached #every day i spiral into east asian media that gives me an aneurysm #bsd -> orv -> link click -> enstars....i wanna say they keep getting more unhinged but theyre all unhinged in different ways #anyway please help me.... #enstars #ensemble stars #fandom spamdom #stuff i say #i will admit i am mostly into the game for the stories #a consistent gamer i am not #but to unlock the stories ill push back the animes i have to catch up on etc etc #again. please help me.... #edit: updated to remove queerbaiting because apparently i dont know whats going on

[rrcraft-and-lore]

In addition to my Monkey Man post from earlier, the always kind & sweet Aparna Verma (author of The Phoenix King, check it out) asked that I do a thread on Hijras, & more of the history around them, South Asia, mythology (because that's my thing), & the positive inclusion of them in Monkey Man which I brought up in my gushing review.

Hijra: They are the transgender, eunuch, or intersex people in India who are officially recognized as the third sex throughout most countries in the Indian subcontinent. The trans community and history in India goes back a long way as being documented and officially recognized - far back as 12th century under the Delhi Sultanate in government records, and further back in our stories in Hinduism. The word itself is a Hindi word that's been roughly translated into English as "eunuch" commonly but it's not exactly accurate.

Hijras have been considered the third sex back in our ancient stories, and by 2014 got official recognition to identify as the third gender (neither male or female) legally. Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India have accepted: eunuch, trans, intersex people & granted them the proper identification options on passports and other government official documents.

But let's get into some of the history surrounding the Hijra community (which for the longest time has been nomadic, and a part of India's long, rich, and sometimes, sadly, troubled history of nomadic tribes/people who have suffered a lot over the ages. Hijras and intersex people are mentioned as far back as in the Kama Sutra, as well as in the early writings of Manu Smriti in the 1st century CE (Common Era), specifically said that a third sex can exist if possessing equal male and female seed.

This concept of balancing male/female energies, seed, and halves is seen in two places in South Asian mythos/culture and connected to the Hijra history.

First, we have Aravan/Iravan (romanized) - who is also the patron deity of the transgender community. He is most commonly seen as a minor/village deity and is depicted in the Indian epic Mahabharata. Aravan is portrayed as having a heroic in the story and his self-sacrifice to the goddess Kali earns him a boon.

He requests to be married before his death. But because he is doomed to die so shortly after marriage, no one wants to marry him.

No one except Krishna, who adopts his female form Mohini (one of the legendary temptresses in mythology I've written about before) and marries him. It is through this union of male, and male presenting as female in the female form of Mohini that the seed of the Hijras is said to begun, and why the transgender community often worships Aravan and, another name for the community is Aravani - of/from Aravan.

But that's not the only place where a gender non conforming divine representation can be seen. Ardhanarishvara is the half female form of lord Shiva, the destroyer god.

Shiva combines with his consort Parvarti and creates a form that represents the balancing/union between male/female energies and physically as a perfectly split down the middle half-male half-female being. This duality in nature has long been part of South Asian culture, spiritual and philosophical beliefs, and it must be noted the sexuality/gender has often been displayed as fluid in South Asian epics and the stories. It's nothing new.

Many celestial or cosmic level beings have expressed this, and defied modern western limiting beliefs on the ideas of these themes/possibilities/forms of existence.

Ardhanarishvara signifies "totality that lies beyond duality", "bi-unity of male and female in God" and "the bisexuality and therefore the non-duality" of the Supreme Being.

Back to the Hijra community.

They have a complex and long history. Throughout time, and as commented on in the movie, Monkey Man, the Hijra community has faced ostracization, but also been incorporated into mainstream society there. During the time of the Dehli Sultanate and then later the Mughal Empire, Hijras actually served in the military and as military commanders in some records, they were also servants for wealthy households, manual laborers, political guardians, and it was seen as wise to put women under the protection of Hijras -- they often specifically served as the bodyguards and overseers of harems. A princess might be appointed a Hijra warrior to guard her.

But by the time of British colonialism, anti-Hijra laws began to come in place folded into laws against the many nomadic tribes of India (also shown in part in Monkey Man with Kid (portrayed by Dev Patel) and his family, who are possibly

one of those nomadic tribes that participated in early theater - sadly by caste often treated horribly and relegated to only the performing arts to make money (this is a guess based on the village play they were performing as no other details were given about his family).

Hijras were criminalized in 1861 by the Indian Penal Code enforced by the British and were labeled specifically as "The Hijra Problem" -- leading to an anti-Hijra campaign across the subcontinent with following laws being enacted: punishing the practices of the Hijra community, and outlawing castration (something many Hijra did to themselves). Though, it should be noted many of the laws were rarely enforced by local Indian officials/officers. But, the British made a point to further the laws against them by later adding the Criminal Tribes Act in 1871, which targeted the Hijra community along with the other nomadic Indian tribes - it subjected them to registration, tracking/monitoring, stripping them of children, and their ability to sequester themselves in their nomadic lifestyle away from the British Colonial Rule.

Today, things have changed and Hijras are being seen once again in a more positive light (though not always and this is something Monkey Man balances by what's happened to the community in a few scenes, and the heroic return/scene with Dev and his warriors). All-hijra communities exist and sort of mirror the western concept of "found families" where they are safe haven/welcoming place trans folks and those identifying as intersex.

These communities also have their own secret language known as Hijra Farsi, which is loosely based on Hindi, but consists of a unique vocabulary of at least 1,000 words.

As noted above, in 2014, the trans community received more legal rights.

Specifically: In April 2014, Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan declared transgender to be the third gender in Indian law in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India.

Hijras, Eunuchs, apart from binary gender, be treated as "third gender" for the purpose of safeguarding their rights under Part III of our Constitution and the laws made by the Parliament and the State Legislature. Transgender persons' right to decide their self-identified gender is also upheld and the Centre and State Governments are directed to grant legal recognition of their gender identity such as male, female or as third gender.

I've included some screenshots of (some, not all, and certainly not the only/definitive reads) books people can check out about SOME of the history. Not all again. This goes back ages and even our celestial beings/creatures have/do display gender non conforming ways.

There are also films that touch on Hijra history and life. But in regards to Monkey Man, which is what started this thread particularly and being asked to comment - it is a film that positively portrayed India's third sex and normalized it in its depiction. Kid the protagonist encounters a found family of Hijras at one point in the story (no spoilers for plot) and his interactions/acceptance, living with them is just normal. There's no explaining, justifying, anything to/for the audience. It simply is. And, it's a beautiful arc of the story of Kid finding himself in their care/company.

#hijra #trans representation #monkey man #dev patel #transgender #trans rights #trans rights are human rights #third sex #indian history #indian culture #colonialism #imperialism #south Asian mythos #South Asian myths #Aravan #Iravan #Mahabharata #hindu mythology #hindu gods #kali goddess #krishna #hindu mythology art #Ardhanarishvara #Shiva #Parvarti #sexuality #gender fluid #fluid sexuality #trans community #transgender rights

[equiteesorg]

Silence is betrayal.

#humanity #protect black women #no justice no peace #palestine #protect asian lives #nativeamericans #philanthropy #silence is violence #silence is complicity #black lives matter #human rights

[keikakudom]

more of this guy

#human vox #my art #sketch #hazbin hotel #i submit to the east asian american vox headcanon

[little-pup-max]

Who's getting pinned under this pup 🤼

#gaykink #human puppy #gay pup #pupplay #jock bro #jock bulge #jock pits #asian jock #armpit sniffing #sniff me #guys in briefs #boys in briefs

[picory]

this is who this motherfucker is to me

#quacks #not exactly the same genre of white person but close #it's just strange seeing everyone make human designs of him looking south asian just because he's into yoga 😭 he's licherally british

[blucoded]

frisk&chara redesigns + kfc :3

#my art #fanart #utdr #kfc gang #undertale #deltarune #frisk #frisk the human #chara #chara undertale #chara dreemurr #kris dreemurr #kris deltarune #hit all 3 of them with the asian beam. go #I DONT ACTUALLY THINK CHARA IS A DEVILSPAWN I LOVE THEM. #chara has choppy hair because they cut it themselves :)

[parrdonatesinizvarmi]

Bak burdayım ölmedim hala

#şanışer #lostonyoubabe #tuzlugreyfurt #asians are human

[chalkeater]

guys can you please stop drawing the UTDR Humans as YELLOW. (Kris and frisk)

it normalizes it for the fandom and people WILL copy you. IVE SEEN PEOPLE COPY PEOPLE. Especially seeing Frisk look like a walking asian stereotype is CRAZY . on my dash??

#undertale #deltarune #i love you guys but please. #i know some people who drew yellow skinned and slowly changed it over time #YOU CAN DO IT. CMON!!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!!! #talking #if people hate me for saying it well i like being anti racist lol #also what do you want me to pull my ‘im asian btw’ card just so you listen to ppl?? #Yellow Humans Discussion

[florencziya-blog]

#art #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital painting #digital illustration #my art #illustration #humanization #pomegranate #red hair #red #horror #asian

[yayee-prsp]

Dads

#i love love #zukka #may or may not have to do with a tweet i tweeted #i miss themmmmmmmm #edit i forgot to mention the beads. how could i. it could be seen as anything but i have been emotional about se asian history so #ok prehistoric time. se asian traded w india and india has these orange beads #they are just. so pretty. I just have to include them #THERE WERE ALSO TINY TIGERS. more likely to come from china though #i love. human history. so much

[quotidianish]

Long time no human au

#I care them….. they’re the children I won custody over and don’t pay child support for #spreading my ‘Asian people are real’ agenda (I’m Asian) #wings of fire #Jade winglet #wings of fire au #hwof #human au #WoF au #wof moonwatcher #WoF winter #WoF qibli #WoF kinkajou #turtle is there too but only briefly.. #moonjou #Qinter #moonbli #is there even a tag for winter/kinkajou on here #Quotidianish

[whumpetywhump]

The Sign - Ep. 5

#the sign #thai drama #stabbed #human shield #self sacrifce #protective boyfriend #concern #collapse #collapse into arms #hugging #billy patchanon #babe tanatat #whump #thai whump #asian whump

[officer-decide-worker]

#top #ffxv #btvs #humanity #carrd resources #good omens #akira kurusu #narumitsu #how to train your dragon #batb #stop asian violence #the virgin suicides