#diaspora blues

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #typography #dunya mikhail #diary of a wave under the sea #id included #iraqi lit #west asian lit #reading #diaspora blues #m #x

[thebluesthour]

While the Greek root of the word nostalgia, 'nostos', means 'the return home' — anyone who has been there knows that the return home is never without pain. Nostalgia feels like getting the blues. According to the Oxford English dictionary, 'nostalgia' is 'a form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from one's home or country; severe homesickness'. Indeed, 'Nostos might hold out the promise that, yes, you can return whence you came, but nostalgia happens because you can't go home again.'

Carol Mavor, “A Bolt From the Blue”, Blue Mythologies

#lit #quotes #words #nonfiction #Carol Mavor #Blue Mythologies #diaspora blues #etymology #the most human colour #m #queued

[kontextmaschine]

You know if we're lazily smearing things as anti-Semitic based on long-forgotten historical resonances can we do people who complain about the commercialization of Christmas?

This really started at the 19th Century dawn of the German Empire, contemporary with the growth of a thick commercial retail culture – "Christmas" as we know it is essentially an epiphenomenon of the department store – and much early criticism focused not on how it detracted from a religious cast the holiday had once had, but on how it was becoming a yearly ritual of riches flowing from Christian pockets into the tillers of Jewish retailers, manufacturers, and traders.

As time progressed and the Second Reich fell, this was the theme of infamous interwar antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer's editorial cartoons at Christmastime every year.

(This was also, coincidentally, when and where the traditionally minor Jewish holiday of Hannukah was glowed up into a rival gift-giving celebration, so as to undercut Christmas as a draw for [then much more common, often with secular motives of cultural belonging] conversion.)

#antisemitism #holidays #history #deutschland #diaspora blues

[ijzelen-ijzel]

Dutch-American figure skater Dianne De Leeuw and poetry about diaspora and language

#sorry for projecting my immigrant pains on some random athlete do you still love me #diaspora #diaspora poetry #dutch #dutch diaspora #poem #poetry #diaspora blues #nederlands #immigrant #immigration #Olympics #figure skating #figure skater #ice skating #figure skating tumblr #⛸️ #web weave #web weaving

[alcmenne]

یاد

Tonight I’m thinking of a redly lit restaurant by a polluted sea. You pay in cash because everybody is evading tax. The cold denizens of Perth City would never find it beautiful.

I have been here so long but tonight I cannot pretend myself above the dim red bulbs and food served late, the noise and lateness of the night, the treachery of the dark hours-long road that needs be taken to sit wrapped in mama’s flimsy dupatta, gulping down chilled Fresh Lime and sea air.

Tonight I’m lying on my bed in a silent dorm room but I can see white pin-prick seagulls wheeling over a wide expanse of black water. God, how I’m missing a crook restaurant on a crooked road tonight.

#diaspora blues #writing

[panathema]

White people cannot speak with authority on Mizu's relationship with race

Monocultural people cannot speak with authority on Mizu's racial-cultural identity

Cis people cannot speak with authority on Mizu's gender identity

And I'm gonna go ahead and say Mizu's experiences with sexuality would be more queer than not.

#seeing some stupid fucking takes by people frrrrr #blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #edit: changed monoracial to monocultural bc it definitely includes first and second gen facing diaspora

[dreampearls]

oh god faruzan i forgot about faruzan ans collei Dear god dont talk to me

#THIS IS LIKE A NEW ADDITION TO THE BOTTOM TIER OF THE ICEBERG #i thibk collei -> amber + cyno + kaeya diaspora blues makes enough sense but faruzans thing #doesnt literally deal w immigration in the same way they all do its more about how her time displacement #is basically akin to cultural displacement check out lee ninglans dot com for more on yhis oh god wait i need to find the post

[gemsofgreece]

Re: the anon writing about globalization of Greek media (I am not that anon, I understand the premise but I disagree with their conclusion), also like… it's nice for Greeks who live outside the country to be able to see shows in our language, from our own country. And to be able to share them with our friends, but even setting aside sharing our media with "foreigners" (which... what is wrong with that, I first heard about Maestro from a Persian friend who was incredibly excited about it), Greece is not the only place Greeks live and it can be really difficult to access Greek media if you aren't actually living there.

^^^

#greece #greeks of diaspora #maestro in blue #greek tv series #greek tv #anon #mail

[soufcakmistress]

Ursilene ✨✨

I was in a tizzy trying to find visuals that I could place for my deity and this is her! The beautiful women of Tchad with their long plaited hair, and that skin! Ursilene is compassionate, stunning, powerful and terrifying! Cannot wait to share more with y’all!

#soufcakmistress #charleston blues #ursilene #black deity #black goddess #black woman #tchad #african diaspora

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, "My poetry has two lives, like any exile: A conversation with Dunya Mikhail", interviewed by Sobia Khan in World Literature Today (Vol. 89) [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #interviews #typography #id included #dunya mikhail #sobia khan #diaspora blues #sanctum #m #x

[kontextmaschine]

See the real deep cut Taylor Swift lyrics to get tetchy about would've been Begin Again, the "you're helping me get over a breakup by being everything to me he couldn't" song off Red, the album about breaking up with Jake Gyllenhaal, where her examples include "talking about your family's Christmas traditions"

(the Gyllenhaals are Jewish)

#taylor swift #red taylor’s version #jake gyllenhaal #antisemitism #diaspora blues

[ijzelen-ijzel]

In conversation with a high school English teacher

#diaspora #diaspora poetry #dutch #my poetry #bad poetry #dutch diaspora #poem #poetry #diaspora blues #ww2 poetry #generational trauma #traumacore

[boasamishipper]

🌹🌹🌹

And late at night, when Dad’s left for the late shift and Mum’s sleeping and Bubbe and Zayde’ve left, Roy sneaks out of bed and parks himself in front of the kitchen table. He knows not to touch them, not since he was three and burned his hand when the candle tipped over, but he likes watching the flames flicker, breathing in the smell of melting wax. Likes the feeling - if only for a moment - like he’s not alone. (Diaspora Blues, Roy&Thierry, Roy/Keeley)

#thanks for asking! #ted lasso #fic: diaspora blues #roy kent #thierry zoreaux

[tecnolocuras]

La fragmentación de la identidad digital

Linkedin, X (ex Twitter), YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Tumblr, (N)chan, foros, comunidades y un largo etc. Nuestra identidad digital se encuentra fragmentada. ¿Es el Internet standards track protocol la solución?

https://tecnolocuras.com/la-fragmentacion-de-la-identidad-digital/

#linkedin #youtube #flickr #thumblr #facebook #twitter #blue sky #instagram #threads #rss #atom #mastodon #social networks #diaspora #sdf #forums

[vilecrocodile]

On this Shabbos and as Hanukkah draws near (Dec 7th), I'd like to share this article, one of the only guides I've been able to find on where to buy candles for Shabbos/Hanukkah/etc that don't support the Jewish National Fund. For those unfamiliar with the JNF, it is a Zionist organization formed in 1901 to buy land for Jewish settlement, and among other things has been responsible for much of the ecological "development" (read: colonialism) of Palestine. One of its main efforts is in soliciting money from diaspora Jews to fund the Zionist project, and many of the larger brands of Judicia donate a portion of their proceeds to it. As Hanukkah candles begin appearing in stores, you might check the box and note a JNF logo on the side.

This is a list of candle companies that specifically do not donate a part of their proceeds to the JNF, one of the only articles of its kind I've never been able to find. The companies listed aren't all necessarily anti-Zionist or don't donate to Israel in other ways - I'd recommend researching bigger names like Manischewitz, for example - but Narrow Bridges Candles IS anti-zionist and explicitly supports and promotes BDS. I've bought from them before, they make beautiful beeswax candles of all kinds, and would highly recommend you get your holiday candles here if it's financially doable.

Good Shabbos and have a safe and beautiful Hanukkah, when you remember the miracle of the eight nights remember also the people of Gaza and the scarcity there.

#palestine #hanukkah #bds #please add on if you know of any others or if you have any other info or corrections! #anti zionisim #jewish anti zionism