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magicmooshka · 11 months
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I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023
I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.
id in alt
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princessofbookaholics · 10 months
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dark academia 🖤
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skittlezmike · 10 months
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PFPS and HCs I made of the ninja for AAPI month! I'm a day late but its okay whoops-
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kemetic-dreams · 1 month
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Why Do So Many Americans Think They Have Cherokee Blood?
The history of a myth. 
BY GREGORY D. SMITHERS
“I cannot say when I first heard of my Indian blood, but as a boy I heard it spoken of in a general way,” Charles Phelps, a resident of Winston-Salem in North Carolina, told a federal census taker near the beginning of the 20th century. Like many Americans at the time, Phelps had a vague understanding of his Native American ancestry. On one point, however, his memory seemed curiously specific: His Indian identity was a product of his “Cherokee blood.”
The tradition of claiming a Cherokee ancestor continues into the present. Today, more Americans claim descent from at least one Cherokee ancestor than any other Native American group. Across the United States, Americans tell and retell stories of long-lost Cherokee ancestors. These tales of family genealogies become murkier with each passing generation, but like Phelps, contemporary Americans profess their belief despite not being able to point directly to a Cherokee in their family tree.
Recent demographic data reveals the extent to which Americans believe they’re part Cherokee. In 2000, the federal census reported that 729,533 Americans self-identified as Cherokee. By 2010, that number increased, with the Census Bureau reporting that 819,105 Americans claimed at least one Cherokee ancestor. Census data also indicates that the vast majority of people self-identifying as Cherokee—almost 70 percent of respondents—claim they are mixed-race Cherokees.
Why do so many Americans claim to possess “Cherokee blood”? The answer requires us to peel back the layers of Cherokee history and tradition.
Most scholars agree that the Cherokees, an Iroquoian-speaking people, have lived in what is today the Southeastern United States—Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama—since at least A.D. 1000. When Europeans first encountered the Cherokees in the mid–16th century, Cherokee people had well-established social and cultural traditions. Cherokee people lived in small towns and belonged to one of seven matrilineal clans. Cherokee women enjoyed great political and social power in the Cherokee society. Not only did a child inherit the clan identity of his or her mother, women oversaw the adoption of captives and other outsiders into the responsibilities of clan membership.
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As European colonialism engulfed Cherokee Country during the 17th and 18th centuries, however, Cherokees began altering their social and cultural traditions to better meet the challenges of their times. One important tradition that adapted to new realities was marriage.
The Cherokee tradition of exogamous marriage, or marrying outside of one’s clan, evolved during the 17th and 18th centuries as Cherokees encountered Europeans on a more frequent basis. Some sought to solidify alliances with Europeans through intermarriage.
It is impossible to know the exact number of Cherokees who married Europeans during this period. But we know that Cherokees viewed intermarriage as both a diplomatic tool and as a means of incorporating Europeans into the reciprocal bonds of kinship. Eighteenth-century British traders often sought out Cherokee wives. For the trader, the marriage opened up new markets, with his Cherokee wife providing both companionship and entry access to items such as the deerskins coveted by Europeans. For Cherokees, intermarriage made it possible to secure reliable flows of European goods, such as metal and iron tools, guns, and clothing. The frequency with which the British reported interracial marriages among the Cherokees testifies to the sexual autonomy and political influence that Cherokee women enjoyed. It also gave rise to a mixed-race Cherokee population that appears to have been far larger than the racially mixed populations of neighboring tribes.
Europeans were not the only group of outsiders with which 18th-century Cherokees intermingled. By the early 19th century, a small group of wealthy Cherokees adopted racial slavery, acquiring African slaves from American slave markets. A bit more than 7 percent of Cherokee families owned slaves by the mid-1830s; a small number, but enough to give rise to a now pervasive idea in African culture: descent from a Cherokee ancestor.
In the early 20th century, the descendants of Cherokee slaves related stories of how their African forebears accompanied Cherokees on the forced removals of the 1830s. They also recalled tales of how African and Cherokee people created interracial families. These stories have persisted into the 21st century. The former NFL running back Emmitt Smith believed that he had “Cherokee blood.” After submitting a DNA test as part of his 2010 appearance on NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are, he learned he was mistaken. Among African Americans, as among Americans as a whole, the belief in Cherokee ancestry is more common than actual blood ties.
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midautumngame · 11 months
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Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month with us!
We're an all Asian-diaspora team making a game about Asian-diaspora culture that's coming out this month! We are so proud of this project and being able to create something meaningful to us. Sending all AAPI folks lots of love this month and always. 💜
Wishlist Midautumn - launching on Steam Early Access May 9th!
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yanxioustrikas · 10 months
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asian / asian-coded characters in supa strikas — part 3
it’s the last day of may hence the last day of asian heritage month in canada, however i’m still gonna continue doing these because it’s really fun finding background characters and giving them headcanons haha! i’m glad y’all really enjoyed this mini series :)) stay tuned!
* = headcanon names / flags
albert 🇨🇳*🇿🇦 (south african by nationality)
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ichika* (left) and kokoro* (right) 🇯🇵
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yoshiko* 🇯🇵
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angie 🇻🇳*🇿🇦 (south african by nationality)
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nikhil 🇮🇳*🇿🇦 (south african by nationality)
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raj 🇮🇳*🇿🇦 (south african by nationality)
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bernice 🇵🇭*🇿🇦 (south african by nationality)
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lilygaocentral · 2 months
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My English name is Lily Gao, and I am an actor and storyteller. I was born and raised in Harbin, China, and my Chinese name is Xue Lian (雪莲), which means ‘snow lotus’.
Toronto Chinatown is my favorite place to be. Especially throughout the pandemic, not being able to visit family in China has been incredibly difficult. So my favourite thing to do is collect groceries from Chinatown, and FaceTime my family for dinner, or afternoon tea.
Our family traveled a lot, but my parents always made sure I spoke Mandarin at home, and would always remind me the importance of keeping my culture alive. Back then, I of course didn’t understand this, as my goal was to rid of any hint that I was different. Foods and traditions I now proudly present to friends and co-workers, were secretly tucked away...
Asian Heritage Month is very important to me, because knowing our cultures are proudly being celebrated across the country shows our younger generation that who we are, and what we are made of, is something to be proud of. If I had seen Chinese food on TV screens when we first moved to Scotland, I would have never secretly thrown away the beautiful beef stew and fried rice lunch my mother used to pack. Now, I couldn’t be prouder to call myself a Chinese woman, and show off the proper pronunciation of: 雪莲.
Source: Toronto Chinatown Facebook (15 May 2022)
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daphne-dauphinoise · 2 years
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Asian Heritage Month Book Reccomendations
Fiction 
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Its events take place in the fifth century AD between Upper Egypt, Alexandria  and northern Syria, following the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire, and the ensuing internal sectarian conflict between the church fathers on the one hand, and the new believers on the other hand, declining paganism.
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The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique.
In his romantic pursuit of Fusun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being.
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On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. So begins the slow unravelling of Su Lan: a woman determined to remake herself, an ambitious physicist and ambivalent mother who becomes consumed by her research into disproving the irreversibility of time. Following Su Lan's sudden death, her daughter Liya travels from the US to China to try to understand the silences and ghosts her mother left behind. Adrift in a country she doesn't know, Liya begins to piece together how her mother's obsessive desire to erase her own past has marked the lives of those around her, and Liya's own.
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his is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt).
Non-Fiction 
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Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of women from the ganglands is an Indian 2011 non-fiction crime novel written by Hussain Zaidi with original research by reporter Jane Borges. It tells 13 true stories of women who were involved in criminal activities in Mumbai. 
 I highly reccomend watching Gangubai which follows the story of Gangubai Kothewali who fought for the rights of orphans and sex workers in Mumbai during the 60s. It is on Netflix.
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This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes, soldiers, professionals and entrepreneurs of the 19th and 20th centuries. Rozina Visram examines the nature and pattern of Asian migration; official attitudes to Asian settlement; the reactions and perceptions of the British people; the responses of the Asians themselves and their social, cultural and political lives in Britain. This imaginative and detailed investigation asks what it would have been like for Asians to live in Britain, in the heart of an imperial metropolis, and documents the anti-colonial struggle by Asians and their allies in the UK. It is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins of the many different communities that make up contemporary Britain.
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Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Hiroshima Nagasaki tells the story of the tragedy through the eyes of the survivors, from the twelve-year-olds forced to work in war factories to the wives and children who faced it alone. Through their harrowing personal testimonies, we are reminded that these were ordinary people, given no warning and no chance to escape the horror.
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For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture and is shaping the modern world. This region, the true centre of the earth, is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself began, where the world's great religions were born and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections, but networks that linked continents and oceans together. Along them flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. This was where empires were won and where they were lost. As a new era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising again.
I am not going to lie, I had all the books and reviews written but I deleted that post when I went to post it so here are the books with synopsis I got from Waterstones because I am too lazy to rewrite. 😃👍
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feministfocus · 10 months
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Tita Likes to Say
by Helena Donato-Sapp
You are probably wondering what a Black girl has to say at an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month event.  Long story short, I am Filipina through adoption — my Papa is Filipino and my Dad is white.  My birthparents are Haitian immigrants.   My first word was “gatas” — the Tagalog word for “milk.”  Our extended Filipino families live close to us.  Since Dad’s family is far away in West Virginia that means I have spent holidays with my Filipino family, and also birthdays and christenings and funerals and weddings.  If your family is anything like mine, they make every excuse to get together and celebrate, so there are so many parties throughout the year!  I have grown up with lumpia and pancit and ox-tail soup and adobo and lechon and ube ice-cream.  So much food, and so much mahjong!!  The fact is, you can’t tell by looking at someone what all of their intersectional identities are and, so, I stand before you as a proud Filipina.  I represent a lot of people who have many intersectional identities.
            My poem has a tough message.  It’s about mixed messages.  Before I share it with you, it is important for me to say how much I love my Titas, my Filipina aunts.  I have spent a lot of time with them, and in so many ways they raised me in our wonderful Filipino culture.  Which is exactly why I was inspired to write this.  Tough things need to be said and I am not afraid to say them.  This poem goes out to all aunts and titas of all colors and ethnicities.  Everyone has a Tita.  Also, in spite of the title, the message also goes out to Titos and Uncles, really to all of our families.  In my poem, I refer to one Tita who represents them all.  So here goes…my poem is titled “Tita Likes to Say.”
Tita Likes To Say
I don’t ever remember a time without Tita.
She might even have taught me my very first word, 
Gatas which means milk in Tagalog.
As a baby, she held me tight in her arms.
As a toddler, she made me giggle 
and loved to see me dance into the New Year
when at the stroke of midnight
she threw handfuls of two-dollar bills into the air
to catch for good luck.
Tita is fun and full of laughter.
Tita loves to cook and host parties.
“Eat!  Eat!  Eat!” she insists — “Sige, na. Kain na!” — 
as she fills your paper plate with a heap of steaming rice.
At the parties I learned that it was polite to go for seconds
to show Tita how much you love her food. 
But also at these parties, Tita likes to say, “Tumataba ka na.”
“Taba,” means fat in Tagalog.
Therefore, Tita likes to say, “You’re getting fat,”
Before and after all that food.
She says it ALWAYS.
Honestly, I hear it said all the time.
In all the parties, in all directions.
Almost like a greeting,
A rude “Hello.”
No one is spared.
Pinsan my Cousin isn’t spared.
Tito my Uncle isn’t spared.
Kuya or Ate isn’t spared.
Lolo or Lola isn’t spared.
I am not spared.
The sad thing is, Tita doesn’t spare even herself.
Lola says that it is just part of “the culture.”
Tito says it’s just a joke because she says it with a laugh.
And they all swear that it is harmless.
But none of that is true for me.
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anchoeritic · 11 months
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happy asian heritage/aapi month !! 🤍
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etchedstars · 2 years
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its jewish heritage month AND asian heritage month !!!! 
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magicmooshka · 2 years
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monolith: a comic for aapi heritage month 2022
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princessofbookaholics · 10 months
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presenting the prettiest book cover I've ever seen 💛
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snowiferart · 10 months
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I'll be at Hawaiian May Day hosted by QPAC this Saturday! Super excited for this event!
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mmmcnuggies · 11 months
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High key sucks that Asian Heratage Month isn't talked about much. It doesn't even show up in the "things we care about" tags on tumblr :/
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noneknxws · 10 months
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extremely late but hey, since it’s asian heritage month, i thought i’d read Superman Smashes The Klan again! and it’s as amazing as I remember!
i love Gurihiru and Gene Luen Yang so much. they’re so good. Gene’s writing and comics are awesome and Gurihiru’s art is so satisfying?? i can’t explain it. i love Roberta and i checked ao3 and theres no tag for her?? what?!!???
i recommend 👍
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