#immigrant child

[xibalbaa]

Chang, Victoria. (2021). Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief. Milkweed Editions.

#immigrant #immigrants #immigrant child #immigrant children #performing #quote #poetry #poem #victoria chang #writing #silence #grief #as an immigrant myself this spoke to my soul

[quietstoriesofalonelychild]

a child in a house in a forest in a town

I am standing in the middle of a cold room in a two-story house in the middle of the woods. Outside it is snowing, and the day begins to turn into night. The sun is setting, and yet there is no sun to speak of. The air is chilled in a way that makes goosebumps travel along my arms, and it makes a cold, empty feeling of loneliness seep into my chest.

Outside the house is a backyard where two little children are playing with the snow. Outside the backyard is the deep, dark expanse of the forest, and outside of the forest is a small European town that does not want me. I stand in the bedroom of the two-story house in a backyard in a forest in a town and the empty feeling in my chest grows so deep that my hands are shaking and my lungs can not expand and I am scared that this is forever. 

I hear the stairs creaking. I know no one is coming, so I imagine it is a ghost. I turn around and the ghost is me, and as I stare at myself I realize that a ghost is all I have, and I have not spoken in two days, and if a ghost is the only thing that will listen then it is better to talk to it than to stare into the empty window from which I can not see the sun. 

I open my mouth, and words come out, and they are hoarse and tired but I am saying them out loud, and the ghost will listen. I tell the ghost about the show I started watching. I tell it about the boy who pushed me down in the hallway at school. I tell it about the snow and the sun and the forest and the town and when I have no more words left to speak, I turn around and realize that the ghost is gone. The ghost was never there to begin with. It is only me, and the creaky stairs in a house in a backyard in a forest in a town, and I am lonelier than ever, now.

#lonelihood #lonesome #immigrant #short story #immigrant child #emptyness

[treacherouswar]

My tears ricochet is so immigrant child coded

#I CAN go anywhere I want anywhere I want just not HOME #folklore #my tears ricochet #immigrant child

[olive-garden-hoe]

Being multilingual is just *tries to open the emojis* *accidentally hits the switch keyboard* *αρχίζει να πληκτρολογεί στα ελληνικά* *desperately trying to switch back to English* * sélectionne le clavier français*

#multilingual #multilinguism #no one @ me about the grammar #my grammar in Greek and French literally suck #i just know the basic stuff #i know them because they’re household languages #Greek immigrant #French #québécois #québec #child of immigrants #edit: fixed the Greek text #again Greek is a household language I rarely use outside of my family #so my grammar and vocabulary suck

[6footeel]

haven’t made any decisions about his colors yet so i kind of just had fun with it lol

#i have some thoughts and feelings abt him #.art #malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #john doe #he’s just a little blobby guy up there #i have some really specific thoughts abt arthur as like #the child of 2 british jews . who immigrated & then had very little connection with community before they killed themselves #and thusly he was handed off to a catholic orphanage #and so . the complicated feelings about religion #along with them being compounded by how much loss he’s had in his life. and how much suffering #i just. as a jewish dude . i have feelings abt it #it’s literally all headcanons that i’ve made up but it slots in very nicely with him so. yeah

[river-of-wine]

A long way from home

#red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #molly o'shea #sean macguire #kieran duffy #rdr2 spoilers #I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about these three and their positions as Irish immigrants #or the child of Irish immigrants in Kieran’s case #and how all of them have different backgrounds and are in the gang because of different circumstances #I went into the game not knowing about any of the Irish immigrant plot lines #with them or the o’driscolls #and it hit me very hard #I will make a big post discussing it someday #and the layers of tragedy it adds to their characters #but I’m very tired and I love them very much #fanart #digital art #my art

[htub]

The Jor-El A.I. looked so sad when he realized Clark doesn't understand Kryptonian.

HE DID he was trying so hard to connect to him and explain who he is and Clark just can't understand him and he presumably can't understand Clark either 😭 idk how well the AI can perceive time and emotions etc/how much of Jor-El he is, but he was created for one single purpose and spent years laying dormant waiting and now that Clark is finally here he just,, can't.

And if it's at least in some part Jor-El's consciousness rather than a full emotionless AI that looks like him (since usually it is) that's his SON and they don't even share a language. Kal-El who he loved so much that he did all he did to save him from a dying planet, and he's alive, he really survived, but he was raised by strangers (and bless them for it) on a strange planet with strange customs and now they can't even communicate. Jor-El can't tell him about Krypton, his people and his own family, and he can't ask Clark about how his life has been on earth either. Can't even ask him if he's happy. Clark has no idea where he's really from and no way to find out because the only one who might be able to tell him speaks a language no one on the whole planet can understand.

The sheer loneliness of it is ripping a hole into my heart and I'm not even there.

#two talks #god it really hits so hard excuse my rambling #also yeah kryptonian was clearly based off a romance language but most likely in universe it isn't #they just did it that way bc creating a whole language from scratch is hard #yeah the immigrant child allegory is really in there wow #my adventures with superman

[somnas-writes]

Zac portraying the struggle in having two very different sides in ur life and not knowing how to balance them… Mr oyama yoy will be sent my therapy bill

#HES JUST LIKE MEEEE #THE TWO DIFFERENT INSTINCTS AND SKDES THAG TOU CANT GET A FEEL FOR #ONE FHAT YOU PARTICIPSTW IN MROE AND ANOTHER THAT YOU HAVE INLY BEGUN TO DABBLE IN #BUT EVERYONE WANTS TOU TO JUST PICK ONE #the child of an immigrant struggle …. #me… #actual tears in my eyes #zac oyama #gorgug thistlespring #my baby #myyy baby my baby y #your my baby say it to meee #fantasy high #fhjy #d20 #dimension 20 #dimension 20 fantasy high #somnas.rambles #oh man #fixed my typos #I wrote this when I was on the verge of tears

[croszukis]

arber xhekaj goal — WSH @ MTL 02.17.24

#arber xhekaj #montreal canadiens #i love him.... #*gifs #and kovy being so happy ahh #child of immigrants d-pair save me

[valdrift]

ok actulaly im not done as previously mentioned ANOTHER THING i disagree with is the very common hc that kaeya's dad was abusive even tho we know next to nothing abt this guy. or rather, i disagree with how the hc is handled. bc while theres nothing wrong with exploring the topic of abuse and the effects it has on its victims, almost all the time, kaeya having an abusive father is just turned into angst fodder for the ragnvindr family to comfort. he gets flattened as a character to show off how kind crepus and diluc are and how good they are for taking him in, compared to his Horrible Monster of a birth father. it feels very white savior-like, especially coupled with the idea that khaenriah is brutal and cruel and kaeya was a victim to both it and his father, only to be "saved" by the ragnvindrs. kaeya has complex emotions regarding his father, both adopted and birth, and it feels worth exploring rather than "kaeya had a shitty dad but its fine he has a new family and everything is ok bc theyre so nice to him"

#personally. i think kaeya's dad was a guy stuck between a rock and a hard place #with the 'youre our last hope' scene kaeya's dad wasnt staring at his son with hatred it was smth else #it seems clear that he had conflicting feelings abt abandoning his son #plus kaeyas line abt wondering if his dad only left him so he cld have a chance at a good life #kind of hit home for me as a child of immigrants ! the 'we left home so you cld have the life we never cld' you know .

[gwydionmisha]

#Child Labor #Roofing #Child Abuse #Immigrant Children #News

[mamawasatesttube]

lex luthor is a great villain in that his genocidal levels of xenophobia genuinely make me so mad. its perfectly realistic like yeah, this is EXACTLY what a shitty white capitalist would do. clark kent is a better man than me because i want this guy dead <3

#rimi talks #i at this point ought to make a comic liveblogging tag huh #rimi's comic liveblogging #<- never let it be said that i am particularly creative #but also. can you BELIEEVVEEEEE people think he'd ever be a good fucking parent to kon an ALIEN CHILD #he can be a real fun villain (like in the rots movie! i was entertained!) but bro........... xenophobia is one of his CORE traits. #and sure this particular bit is that taken to an extreme BUT ITS LIKE. SUCH A BELIEVABLE EXTREME #like with how republicans in this country talk about immigrants. bro. . . . . . #anyways. thank you mon-el everybody say thank you mon-el #lex luthor (derogatory) #<- yeah that's my lex tag he doesn't deserve a casual cutesy first name basis

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: I Dream In Another Language (2017)

I watched this movie a few weeks ago, and it STUCK.

(Don Evaristo and Don Isauro just before their first interview to record Zikril together.)

I Dream in Another Language is a Mexican magic realism movie about the death of a culture. It documents the efforts of a linguist trying to save the (fictional) language Zikril, spoken only by three old indigenous people. When one of them dies, the studies come to a halt, as the other two, Don Evaristo and Don Isauro, have not spoken to each other in over fifty years and categorically refuse to have anything to do with each other. As he looks further into this, the linguist discovers that the real reason for this feud is their past relationship and an awful lot of internalized homophobia.

Zkril is an artificial language, created specially for this movie out of respect for the people who still speak the endangered and disappearing languages today. The fact that it has seemingly magic powers, and that its speakers appear to be living on after their death, clearly puts the story into the magic realism genre.

This is NOT a happy movie. The internalized homophobia part is no joke, and the main theme of course is the loss of a language, and the culture that comes with it. 

But it damn sure is leaving an emotional impact.

I strongly suggest that everyone who is even vaguely interested in this subject read up about languages and language conservation. The Wikipedia page of this movie is as a good place to start as any, since there are related articles linked in the references list. I also would like to thank @celluloidrainbow for bringing this film to my attention.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

#I cannot stress how good this movie is #and how much THE INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA IS NOT A JOKE #but yeah the theme does personally resonate with me #I love languages I love culture and I live in a very multilingual place #also I'm a child of immigrants who is lucky enough to have parents who made sure that we actually stick with our mother language #but I do still feel this certain disconnect to my country of origin #nothing ANYWHERE near as bad as people in colonial countries experience mind you #nut the themes are there somewhere #anyway people take your languages seriously and cherish them and pass them on to future generations #languages are SO IMPORTANT!! #i love languages #I Dream in Another Language #post-colonial cinema #queer movies #queer cinema #movie recommendation #Mexican cinema #international queer cinema #Queer Media Monday

[happyshippingnoises]

Drew myself to help with uhhh idk breakup

Also my brother is there (his tumblr is actually 10x more popular then mine help 💀💀💀 house full of artists)

#i still am a little insecure over my skintone idk why i just dont like seeing myself tanner? #some immigrant child issues ig #my artwork #me #drawing myself #comfort post #practice time #sketches #fanart of me #ig #idk #🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ #if i could find my brothers @ id link it but hes SECRETIVE #hes super popular though

[angstydiaz]

far right assholes using horrific murders as an excuse to be horrific to immigrants. fucking disgusting but not surprising . They don't care about these kids, they didnt care about aisling murphy and they didn't care about the sligo murders, they just want to be racist and bigoted.

they take situations and use them to fit their narrative about "immigrants ruining Ireland"

they are using heinous crimes as an excuse for their fucking bigotry

fuck you and fuck your racist bullshit.

and for my fellow irish followers specifically those who immigrated, please be careful

#ireland #tw child death #dublin #immigration #anti facist #anti immigration

[shimenchus]

it's so telling when someone says radical feminism is "white woman shit" and you bring up the fact that in many places such as africa or asia, the only feminism that prominently exists is radical feminism, and for those places it's just considered regular feminism that you get told those women live in places that aren't progressive enough for them to understand their actions properly. to say these women are too dumb to realize that their beliefs are "bad" simply because they don't align with western mainstream liberal feminism is rooted in xenophobia and racism, not to mention a lack of understanding of the struggles and violence women from these countries regularly go through, which can range anywhere from fgm to men rubbing and wiping their cum on the back of women's clothes in trains. but of course, as usual, there's no intelligent response to this so you just end up getting blocked or get rape wished on you.

#my grandma was born and raised in south sudan she considers herself a feminist and her beliefs #along with all of the women she knows believe in what radfems believe in #being against things like surrogacy forced marriage harmful sex culture misogyny male violence and femicide #i live in a primarily hispanic/black area and literally the only people who try to push gender shit on us is white people #and if you say you don't believe in all that you get called an ignorant white supremacist #white people put the mirror down when you're calling non white people white supremacists #anyway today's rant is brought to you by a white guy who told me (a non white darkskin child of 2 immigrants) #that of course i didn't understand gender politics because i'm too privileged #and then went on to say women in south korea aren't 'booksmart' enough to realize their corset movement is a 'terf' movement..... #my mom always tells me do not engage with white people who want to play devil's advocate with race based matters #and yet here i am doing it again lol #/rambling