#asian muslim woman

[brighter-arda]

Elenwë and Amarië friendship for @tolkiengenweek

[Image description

1: an Indian woman wearing gold earrings and beige sari (?) looking down from a ledge. Text = 'Elenwë'

2: dark grey background, mosque window shape with lanterns. Gold border has text 'born in valinor' 'beloved of princes of the noldor' 'but parted from them' 'daughters of the vanyar'

3: dark grey background, mosque window shape with flowers, hanging lanterns and moon and star shapes. Gold border has text 'bound in faith' 'bound in friendship' 'bound in grief' 'bound in sisterhood'

4: Arab woman kneeling on the ground in black clothing decorated in gold. She wears decorative gold chains over her face. Text = 'Amarië']

#elenwe #amarie #silmarillion #tolkien women of colour #south asian tolkien #muslim tolkien #swana tolkien #tolkiengenweek #moodboards and edits #toi's creations #mepoc #contains image description #(elenwe model is aditi rao hydari who is indian) #(amarie model is unspecified arab woman)

[ruthlesslistener]

idk how conservatives and other bigots can ever think that more diversity = less safe of a community. the more queer, interracial, and muslim a community, the safer i feel. like how can you not see a whole load of people from different cultures and lives peacefully vibing in the same area minding their own buisness and NOT go 'oh thank god theres some level of tolerance here I can just be myself and not have to be constantly on edge all the time bc of it'

#obv its not perfect but lemme tell you norcal so far feels a lot safer than socal #probs bc theres less wealthy republican texans fucking everywhere griping about 'mexican gangs' #aka the people who naturally fucking live there #i mean theres probably a bias going on for me too bc theres a lot of muslim women wearing covers here and that = family in my brain #and theres a lot of openly trans queer folk here (more than socal) #but still #i saw an older trans woman walk into the library today humming peacefully and instantly felt safe #most of the people here are brown or asian #everyone respects my pronouns and accepts them without a blimk #its fucking great so far

[peopleofafghanistan]

Daily life.

Source: Daniel Malikyar

#afghanistan #afghan #afghan people #afghan woman #asia #asian #south asia #central asia #life #daily life #market #shopping #fabrics #veil #burqa #burka #niqab #chadri #muslim #muslim women #high res #high resolution

[whimsycore]

Affirmative Action being overturned is so funny because it’s another addition to over turning (white) women’s rights and they’re the main ones backing it because they lost to a black person. Like if their space in college went to a white man this wouldn’t be a thing

#do NAUGHT get me started on the hypocrisy of the Asian community supporting this #because I’ve had people come up to me complaining about AA not knowing I was black because they thing Muslim is a race #the two idiots who brought it to court were a white woman and an Asian man and it’s like yea #it’s absolutely tracks look at how we’re treated while in higher ed #and in the workplace #especially black women #if we’re not in a service role we’re a threat

[yourdailyqueer]

Shyraa Roy

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 25 October 1995

Ethnicity: Pakistani

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, model, actress, music producer, screenwriter

Note: First Miss Trans Pakistan for 2021 and 2022 to be crowned in Pakistan

#Shyraa Roy #transgender #trans woman #1995 #pakistani #asian #poc #muslim #singer #songwriter #model #actor #music producer #screenwriter #first #popular #popular post

[themoonsbeloved]

Making this again

Please do NOT tag as *D*@ATIONS*

I've had little luck with my previous post so I'm making another one, this time condensed.

I am a south asian muslim woman who's been really struggling with mental illness (Complex PTSD) and chronic fatigue syndrome, and as a result have not been able to find or keep a job for the last 3 years. I'm at a point where my mental and physical health is so bad I can no longer keep trying to find a job and am now entirely dependent on my henna bookings as a henna artist, as well as current various sessional work I do in the community. I'm also a carer for my grandparents as of recently due to their health being really bad, so technically I am doing 4 or so different jobs despite everything. None of these are consistent enough to make regular income, and with how bad my health has been lately its been a struggle to maintain these jobs.

I was supposed to be hired last year by my friends boss as my last hope on finding an ideal temporary job which works for my disability and financial needs, but due to circumstances and his incompetence I'm left hanging waiting for him to contact me, despite reaching out multiple times and being told I will eventually hear from him soon. I now no longer know if and when he will ever get in touch with me as he does need workers, but my current mental and physical state means I can't do anything else.

I'm now reducing the amount of money I need for just my weekly therapy (£25pw) and lazer hair removal sessions, usually around £350-£400 for 8-10 sessions if there's a deal on (I suffer with severe hirsutism/pcos and body dysmorphia). This is all to just help me function and not succumb to my mental illnesses and harm myself the next few months, as these are the things I really rely on currently to not get worse.

Thank you so so much to those who did send money on my last post, please share if you can't give anything.

£0/£300

I will post the links in the next reblog

#help

[vhstown]

super short london slang guide !!

i haven't got a scooby doo about cockney so this is mainly gonna be mle and like the way 14 year old secondary school boys talk oookay let's go (just so yk i am a londonder!!!!!)

direct things to call people (or avoid calling people)

bruv, blud, man, mate, fam (can use in replacement of a pronoun like he, she, you and i or for emphasis — "man's got a meeting, bruv!")

more on "man" it can be used in plural too — "us man" or "them man" or "you man"

my g, my guy (for referring someone you are friendly/friends with)

bossman (something you'd call a shop or business owner — "aye bossman get me the 3 wings and chips yeah")

big man (usually used in a sarcastic friendly but kind of demeaning way, the older cousin of "big guy" — "oi big man what you sayin' cuz?"

i wasnt going to put these here cause of personal preference but 😭 people are gonna use them anyway so i might as well tell you what they mean:

peng (adjective cute/pretty — "her? she's peng!")

leng (adjective hot/sexy — "rah, he's leng you know?)

nouns

ting (usually to refer to a girlfriend but can also just mean "thing"... or a knife? — "don't chat to my ting fam!")

grim (very outdated word for a promiscuous woman — "she's a grim bruv!")

skeng (gun)

shank, spinner (knife)

paper, Ps, pronounced "peas" (money)

ends (neighbourhood, area — "if i catch you in my ends yeah")

mandem (group of friends — "having a laugh at the pub with the mandem" aha)

gyaldem (group of women / female friends)

ganja (weed)

blem (cigarette)

pagan/paigon (snitch or untrustworthy person, not a super common you might wanna use "snake" or "snitch" instead)

wasteman (someone who's useless, a lowlife)

pussio/pussyo (pussy, coward)

other common words and phrases

wagwan, or "wag1" in text (what's up, what's going on)

bare (a lot — "i got bare problems with him!")

gassed (prideful, full of yourself — "im actually so gassed, man got promoted"

"and that" (instead of "and stuff" — "i got links and that")

"allow it" (let something slide — "i forgot my wallet allow it bossman")

safe (like "alright cool", or as a bye — "aight safe")

"pattern up" (fix up, get it together)

hard, tight (cool, good, though "hard" is also used in an offensive way — "bro thinks he's hard, pussio")

blam (to get shot, not actually very common to hear in my experience)

sheffed (up), shanked (to get stabbed)

ahlie (used as an interjection when in agreement with something, similar to phrase "am i lying?")

non-mle specific words i hear sometimes

thick (dumb, stupid)

clapped/tapped (ugly, weird, unattractive)

merk/murk (kill, beat up)

slag, sket (slut)

chav (used to refer to someone of the low social status, associated with violent or rude behaviour)

taking the mick, taking the piss (being annoying)

mad (means crazy obviously but people use it a lot, can have positive and negative connotations — "that's mad!")

nonce (literally means pedophile / sex offender, do what you will with it 😭)

dickhead, bellend (similar to douchebag)

wanker (used towards someone you dislike, or in a joking way)

geezer (usually to refer to an old man)

also!!!

depending on which communities are predominant in the area, words from other languages can come in / have come in

some words are common with US slang too because they share origins 😁 ain't that cool

there's a lot of influence from jamaican patois due to the history of british jamaicans in london for ex in words like "ting" or "mandem" or "wagwan" (hence why mle is sometimes referred to as "jafrican") and its not strange to hear "bomboclaat" or "bloodclaat" here either

in communities where there's muslims and arabs (especially in east london) you might hear arabic terms like "wallahi", "khalas" or "astagfirullah" (though people debate whether that's cultural appropriation or not)

south asians have also had an influence with words like "gora" or "ganja" though again this is largely area based and the impact of hinglish is also found a lot outside of london

some people have a mix of different dialects! i mainly alternate between mle and estuary (sometimes yorkshire don't ask it is very easy to pick up...)

you're not gonna hear every single word here all the time the usage varies throughout london. the way north and west londoners speak can be v different for example

uhhhh if you wanna learn properly just listen to some grime or sutn . listen to londoners speak!

for some more resources in-depth PLEASE check out these guides made by other british people ! (one and two)

ok that's it bye bye british ppl & londoners feel free to add on! it is midnight rn so ive probably missed stuff lol... dms are open in case you've got any questions or want any help :p

#vee rants #hobie brown x reader #spider punk #spider uk #hobart brown #hobie brown #hobie brown x gn!reader #british accent #london accent #potential to be edited

[iceicewifey]

💜 happy intl women’s day to queer women, trans women, black women, indigenous women, asian women, latin women, jewish women, muslim women, women of mixed faiths, non religious women, fat women, underweight women & women struggling with body image, women struggling with addiction, women that have a complicated relationship with gender and the word ‘woman’, gender nonconforming women, women that use pronouns other than she/her, women that are unhoused or displaced, women that self ship, women that draw, women that write, women that create, and women that struggle to find their creative outlet.

happy intl women’s day to women in palestine, in sudan, in yemen, in the congo, and everywhere else in the world.

happy intl womens days to all women.

#international women's day #haven’t seen a post like this today and i’m sure there’s one floating out there somewhere but wanted to make my own :x #i’ve undoubtedly missed something but my point still stands #i love you women!!! #spankz chat #edited to add some i’m embarrassed about forgetting

[floralfemmes]

the thing with being femme is that we don't inherently conform to patriarchal standards of femininity. to straight people, I seem more masculine than a straight woman. femmes have carved out our own idea of femininity, and we often have a complicated relationship with gender. I'm really tired of people associating being femme with looking like a straight white woman. I'm a brown gnc femme and in my experience that's a more common way of experiencing being femme than being a skinny white girl.

femmes are not just feminine skinny white cis girls, we have our own part in gender non-conformity and we deserve respect for that. straight people often see us as masculine by virtue of us not performing femininity in a way that appeals to straight men.

there are transfem femmes, transmasc femmes, non-binary femmes, gnc femmes, intersex femmes, fat femmes, asian femmes, black femmes, Indigenous femmes, muslim femmes, jewish femmes, and the list goes on and on.

there is no one way to be femme, and there is no standard of being femme, and if there were it definitely wouldn't be skinny white women.

if you can't comprehend this, I don't want to hear a goddamn word from you about what being femme means, because clearly you don't understand.

femmes are so much more than the heteropatriarchy would have you believe. show us some respect.

#mine #lesbian #femme #wlw #gay speaks up #ok to reblog #butch and femme tag

[ssaalexblake]

I also don't think it gets said enough that a bunch of people reacted with a visceral kneejerk reaction against 13 and co, or just with total apathy, actively because they were presented with a woman in her mid to late 30's in an outfit that wouldn't be out of place at a pride parade (or maybe in the toddler clothes section) that was in no way sexy (unless you're gay), a south east asian muslim woman, also dressed in outfits that do not show skin, a black man, and an older white guy that people aren't gonna be fantasising about because he's slightly Too old for that one even if fandoms Think they like the old guys. They don't. They mean 30 year olds and Walsh is twice that.

There are So many fandoms out there that have an absurd cult level following where, if you look, the Show/movie itself doesn't have that fandom, the young white men in the cast do and people ignore literally everything else even when other characters are there.

Like, as with all things, there will be people who just don't like it. But these sort of patterns repeat and repeat and repeat in different fandoms, and you get the odd exception to the rule, but they're still exceptions.

13's era does not Have a white man of the right demographic that wasn't just a one episode guest star. Like, at all. The recurring men are Dhawan, that guy who played that obnoxious american who was too old, and Anderson playing Vinder. And Karvanista if we want to be accurate. But he played a dog.

That is Absolutely a thing that effects fan reactions. I don't like it, but it is.

#dw shit #i do not think the weight of the furr/y community. though lofty and impressive. could carry the fandom on their backs lol #and jodie isn't like. movie star sexy. She's hot but not in That way you know?

[callimara]

Important PSA

Criticizing Israel is NOT antisemetism or an attack on Jewish people because

ISRAEL =/= ALL JEWS

And while I am not saying that there is no antisemitism because there is plenty of that too, this is not a case of that. But grouping all Jews together as Israeli and presenting them as a monolith erases their individuality and identity. It's like calling all Asian people Chinese, and that if you criticize China, then you hate all Asian people. It doesn't make sense.

I am so frustrated seeing people who are trying to raise awareness about Palestine be called antisemetic and disgusting by people who cannot perceive Jews and Muslims as anything but a monolith. That's the reason why so many people are having trouble distinguishing between Hamas and Palestinian civilians, because to them, they're all the same.

And that's why they don't see an issue with collective punishment.

And you know what? Palestine is NOT just the Jewish holy land. It is also the Christian holy land, and the Muslim holy land. Palestine wasn't even the first choice for a Jewish homeland because it was heavily contested by Jewish rabbis at the time.

Turning Palestine (I say Palestine because the entirety of what is now Israel used to be Palestine) as an exclusively Jewish ethno-state means that people of Christian and Muslim faith all over the world are stripped of their holy land. The oldest church in the world, dating back to the times of Christ is located in Gaza, and who are the ones protecting it? Palestinians.

And you know who bombed it? Even though it had 500 refugees of both Muslim and Christian faith inside? Israel.

Even the slogan used for the founding of Israel itself, "A land without people for a people without a land." Is blatantly revisionist and erases the existence of Palestinians already living there. It erases all the historic religious sites that stand there and are frequented regularly by their respective devotees. Or worse, does not consider the Palestinians as 'people.'

Some people tend to forget that religious belief is NOT the same as race, and so you CANNOT claim indigeneity just because you are a certain religion. I am an Indonesian Muslim. Born Muslim, raised Muslim, and every generation of my family have been Muslim. That doesn't mean I can say I'm indigenous to Saudi Arabia. Let alone that Saudi Arabian land is my birthright.

If a white American woman born and raised in Seattle decides to convert to Hinduism, can she then say she is now indigenous to India? Or if she has a child, and that child had a child, and they were all raised as a Hindu, but have always lived in the US all their lives, can they claim that they are indigenous to India?

No.

And the fact is, the first Jewish settlers during The First Aliyah (great Jewish migration to Palestine) came from Eastern Europe and are genetically closer to Russians and other Slavs than they are to the Jews who remained in the Middle Eastern region after their exile (and I guess some people forget that you can convert into Judaism even if you didn't come from "The Promised Land." Like for marriages and stuff.) That's why they feel the need to distinguish themselves from the word "Arab."

Granted, there were also Yemeni Jews that migrated with them (whom I would say have stronger claims to indigeneity), but even in the transition camps, there was a clear divide between the European Ashkenazi Jews and the Yemeni Jews, who literally had their kids taken from them to give to the Ashkenazi Jews.

And let's not forget that when Jewish migrants from Ethiopia came, they were given contraceptives without consent to make sure they didn't impact the "desired" population.

Wake up. This isn't a religious war. This is European colonization.

#free palestine #gaza genocide #history of israel #debunking propaganda #psa

[nothorses]

About that "a trans man committing a mass shooting proves trans people really are the gender they identify as" post: women have committed mass shootings too? Okay it's a lot less statistically frequent, but it happens (as the song "I Don't Like Mondays" demonstrates). It reminds me of the time TERFs on Reddit assumed the woman who shot up the YouTube HQ in 2018 was trans, and then when she turned out to be cis, someone immediately speculated she was getting justified revenge on an abusive BF who worked there (though that comment got downvoted and may have been a troll)

I took this opportunity to look more into statistics around mass shooter demographics, and interestingly, there are a lot of myths tied up in this issue.

This article looks into a few studies and databases to investigate the "90% of all mass shooters are white men" myth, and finds that in actuality, "It really depends on what type of mass shooting you’re talking about. Several of the highest-profile mass shootings in recent memory [...] were committed by white males, such as the 2017 Las Vegas attack by Stephen Paddock. But much beyond that, the stereotype breaks down; Muslim man Omar Mateen killed forty-nine people at a Florida nightclub in 2016 on behalf of a terrorism group; white male Adam Lanza killed twenty-seven people in 2012 at an elementary school, though Asian student Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two people on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007. And so on."

This article fact-checks the gender-specific claims as well, in the context of trans people, and finds that there have been more claims that shooters are trans than can be reasonably substantiated, and that even this number is overshadowed by the number of cis women who have committed mass shootings.

I bring this up because I think the first article in particular brings a lot of much-needed nuance into the issue:

"The whites-are-overrepresented-among-mass-shooters meme does serve a useful purpose in that it helps displace another myth about mass shootings: that they’re most often perpetrated by angry immigrants from travel-banned countries, and that nothing is more dangerous to America that the scourge of Islamic terrorism. … These are worthy ends, but we shouldn’t have to build another myth to reach them.”

What are we saying when we talk about these kinds of incidents this way?

What I find interesting is that in a lot of these conversations around crime, we recognize that crime is often the result of poverty. Indeed, this study finds that the number of mass shootings increases in countries that experience an increase of income inequality.

We can also often recognize that these numbers are skewed because they rely on media coverage, arrests, and criminal charges; all of which are influenced by societal bias. The first article on mass shootings notes that, "mass shootings with white victims tend to get more attention, both from journalists and those on social media, than those with victims who are people of color. This is a well-known pattern and explains why the public is quicker to react to a missing young blonde girl than a missing young black girl."

Are white mass shooters covered more because their targets- being overwhelmingly people and institutions they have ties to- are also usually white?

If "white men are overrepresented as mass shooters" means white men are particularly dangerous and must be feared, what does this imply about other demographics overrepresented in certain crime statistics? What does it mean when we find this isn't true- is there suddenly just is not an issue of white cis male violence? I would certainly disagree.

And I think this gleeful claim that "trans men are proving their gender" by committing acts of violence- again, far more rare than cis women doing the same- only plays into these issues.

Is crime the result of entitlement and privileged anger, or is it the result of a broken system failing its citizens? Are cis men committing acts of extreme violence because they are all- regardless of race- whiny pissbabies who take joy in hurting others, or is this the result of a system that teaches men they can only express emotion through anger and violence? That human connection is not for them, and that needing things makes them unworthy of manhood, love, or even life?

I'm not saying we need to coddle and woobify mass shooters. I'm asking: is this an issue we fix by fearing and hating and wishing death on whole demographics of people based on how represented they are in criminal statistics, or can we make systemic and cultural changes that meaningfully prevent this from happening in the first place?

Do we condemn groups as Bad because some of them have done violence, or do we examine the causes and work toward meaningful solutions?

Obviously, trans men and trans people in general are not in any way "overrepresented" as perpetrators in mass shooting statistics. But I think the people reveling in any new trans male shooter are making it very clear that they don't care about solving problems; they're just interested in looking for reasons to hate, fear, and condemn this specific group of people they already dislike.

#nashville shooting

[cloama]

Finally got around to watching We Are Lady Parts and it's perfect.

I've had an issue with the "bad desi" or "bad muslim" trope of the 2000s where for a muslim character to exist in western media, she(usually a young woman bc sexism) had to visibly be divested from her community, practices, and faith. Note: I am neither South Asian, mena, nor muslim, so I just sat there and ate my food. I was tryna mind my business. Still, I could see what was happening and I knew if I was annoyed, the cousins had to be over it.

We Are Lady Parts hits back at that trope so hard by creating whole human characters who are so funny and alive and processing instead of blurring past it all. Even the main conflict is a well-executed intracommunity issue and I was so excited to watch it play out. The relief of seeing the show refuse to do what other shows had was pleasing. The story being so well-made and being such a worthy way to spend my day felt like such a win for everyone. I loved these characters and I loved the story.

I'm happy it got made. Being able to move away from bare minimum representation to something like this is what everyone needs. It's a very cool show. It's also so hip that I felt old while watching it. Sadly no more episodes are coming but the good news is that it's such a perfect season of television that it is endlessly rewatchable.

#we are lady parts #television

[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

[bitter69uk]

Born 100 years ago today: Indian actor Sabu (Sabu Dastagir, 27 January 1924 – 2 December 1963). The doe-eyed and beauteous Sabu is particularly notable for being perhaps the sole Asian and Muslim major celebrity of Golden Age Hollywood. As with Chinese American star Anna May Wong in the twenties and thirties, the prejudiced dictates of the era limited the types of roles Sabu could play (in the Production Code there could be no hint of interracial romances depicted onscreen, for example) and he continued to portray “primitive” child-of-the-Islands stereotypes well into his thirties. (This is not meant as a diss on Sabu – he performed these parts with genuine aplomb and innate dignity). His most celebrated films include The Thief of Bagdad (1940), The Jungle Book (1942) and Black Narcissus (1947) but perversely, my favourite is camp classic Cobra Woman (1944) starring "the Caribbean Cyclone" Maria Montez – perhaps because Sabu cavorts in little more than a loincloth throughout. Sadly, Sabu died aged just 39 of heart disease.

#sabu #indian actor #classic hollywood #golden age hollywood #old hollywood #lobotomy room #exotica #the thief of bagdad #cobra woman #black narcissus #the jungle book

[feminist-fog]

the people who say shit like “saying trans women are women just proves they really aren’t since you have to remind us!” piss me off so here.

trans women are women

black women are women

jewish women are women

native women are women

mspec women are women

disabled women are women

asian women are women

muslim women are women

lesbian women are women

latinx women are women

neurodivergent women are women

just because a woman isn’t a cishet able-bodied white woman doesn’t mean she is less of a woman.

#feminist #feminism #trans inclusive feminism #anti terf #anti swerf #queer #non binary #nonbinary #mogai #lgbtqia #trans women are women #trans rights