LMAO DREAMWORKS IS TRASH. As an Asian violinist who was excited about seeing this movie before, I just wanna say FUCK YOU. FUCK WHOEVER ALLOWED FOR THIS TO BE IN THE FINAL CUT. Dreamworks finally got the galls to make a movie starring an Asian girl and they decided to put in this Chinese imperialistic agenda against my country!! GREAT //s

For those who didn’t know: that above is the nine-dash line, a controversial and wildly false statement by China, claiming that the Eastern Sea (which belongs to Vietnam alongside other SEAsian countries) was actually their territory according to some obscure history that only they seem to remember - I wonder why. The whole thing an entire mess and a half, but it did die down some time ago. I honestly didn’t expect to see it again, let alone be reminded of it in this seemingly lighthearted family movie of a WESTERN company.

A lot of Vietnamese people are calling to boycott Dreamworks and for this, I completely understand why. They should’ve known better, there’s no excuse to this.

~Mod L

Ugh I was so fucking excited about this movie and now I’m sickened.

Further context: China is trying to claim those waters because they contain lucrative oil deposits and they want to drill in Vietnam’s waters. In enforcing that false territory, they routinely bully fishing boats with fucking warships.

They’ve also bullied the Philippines because the West Philippine Sea contains similar respurces. They have also routinely bullied fishing boats with warships. It’s gotten so bad that Japan has agreed to patrol the waters to make sure China stays in Chinese waters and isn’t going into Southeast Asia.

And remember how China'a been making concentration camps for Muslims? They’ve intentionally removed Mindanao, an island with a predominantly Muslim population, from the maps in the movie.

Please do not support this film in anyway. Filipinos are also boycotting it.

Please reblog and spread.

Ok but is anyone gonna say what movie this is??

Its Abominable, just came out on Sept 27th

During WWII, the Imperial Japanese government forced hundreds of thousands of women into sexual slavery. This International Women’s Day, I want everyone to remember all the “comfort women” and their continued fight. “Comfort women” is a euphemism that was used by the Japanese army to refer to Women from all around the world - including Korea, China, Philippines, Vietnam, and the Netherlands - who were kidnapped and forced to provide sexual services to their soldiers. How can you help boost their voices? Support organizations advocating for survivors.

If you want to financially support survivors, considering donating directly to the Korean Council and the Butterfly Fund - which was established by survivors Kim Bok-Dong and Gil Won-Ok to help victims of sexual abuse around the world: [x]

If you want to help raise awareness for comfort women survivors, please follow Girl of Peace Documentary and donate to our Kickstarter. We’re hoping to create a documentary for an English-speaking audience. There are now only 22 Korean survivors left. It’s imperative that we act now to demand justice for comfort women. 

this is so important. Japanese government is not admitting this and tell their people that these survivors were volutary prostitutez back then and now they are gold diggers looking for compensation and attention.

These women had to go through horrible misogynistic stigma from BOTH Japanese and Korean men even after the war and still are suffering so much. Please help.

http://m.joinheeum.com/index.html?refdoc=index.html

http://m.marymond.kr/

Both sell products and the profit goes to help th survivors!

The comfort women (Japanese: jugun ianfu) is actually a term used for women who systematically were forced to give sexual services to Japanese soldiers in the Asian countries they occupied during World War II, so they are more than just from Korea, China, Philippines, Vietnam; and “the Netherlands” here should be referred to Indonesia instead because most victims of this horrendous practice in Indonesia—Dutch East Indies at the time— were native women and a handful of Eurasian women with Dutch passports. Though indeed there was a couple of Dutch women but most of them went straight to the internment camps instead. 

There was actually an action took by Japanese government to compensate the crime. Like what I can recall from a memoir of one survivor from Indonesia is that back in 1980′s and 1990′s, the Japanese government had tried to offer “financial obligation” as a form reparation to these survivors. But most of them refused it, in the sense that money cannot retrieve what had been taken from these women, let alone to cure both social and psychological impacts they had to endure to the rest of their lives. Instead, they demanded only an official apology from the Japanese government which too until this very day sadly they have not offered yet. 

Yes, I definitely meant the Dutch East Indies! I meant women of Dutch origin were also a part of that demographic. I did also specifically mention “around the world” - meaning that the countries I listed were not the only countries where the victims came from. It was meant to be a starting point from which people could do their own research! Thank you for mentioning Indonesia. I definitely should have included other countries by name. (It happened in Taiwan too AFAIK.)

This was a shortened form of my longer Twitter thread here. Which discusses how the Japanese government’s “apologies” have often come with the condition that survivors do not speak of what happened again and take down public memorials, effectively erasing the history of what happened.

I do caution against using the term “jugun ianfu” to refer to these women broadly because that term is specifically Japanese and a euphemism. Although “comfort women” is often used in discussion of survivors, I know that Korean survivors specifically tend to dislike the usage of that term because it was used to belittle them and whitewash what happened to them. I specifically chose to refer to them as “survivors” for this reason. In fact, the current Japanese government (specifically PM Shinzo Abe) and the Japan Times have worked on redefining “ianfu” to include paid sex workers as well to weaken the argument that these women were subjected to sexual slavery, claiming that they performed sexual services voluntarily. Most Korean comfort women support the use of the term “wartime sex slave” to directly convey the realities of what happened to them over the specific Japanese term “ianfu” which is tied to Japanese imperialism and historical revisionism. 

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Spread the word. 

Philippine Independence Day: Why this Google homepage Art matters

What does this have to do with Independence Day? Yes, it’s a beautiful reef, and the Philippines is proud of its reefs, but why this of all designs? 

It’s amazing, really, how absolutely thoughtful and rebellious this piece of art is. 

I have not exaggerated when I say that China is DESTROYING THE PHILIPPINES in terms of our marine natural resources. 

They have been building artificial islands, thereby destroying miles of reefs and marine life. They have been stocking up MILITARY VEHICLES AND WEAPONRY on those islands. 

And still, Duterte does nothing. Our supposedly tough president does nothing while China arms itself to destroy us and destroy our natural resources and destroy what will take centuries to rebuild. 

This is why the image seen celebrating Philippine Independence is our untouched, beautiful coral reefs. 

Because we need to fight for them.

The Philippines is currently drowning in non stop two day rain. It’s pretty awful.

Follow the listed hashtags on Twitter for updates. Especially #RescuePH and #Habagat2018

Mostly safe but lots of Metro Manila is flooded and dangerous, especially Marikina. The storm is internationally known as Typhoon Yagi.

Battle of Mactan by Manuel Pañares

Filipino warrior Lapu-Lapu kills Spanish conquistador Magellan

In ancient Philippine mythology, Mayari is the one-eyed moon-goddess of war, revolution, beauty and strength- daughter of the chieftain of the gods, Bathala, and a mortal woman, Mayari battled with her brother Apolaki, over who would rule the earth.  

She graces the night sky with her light, and she is said to be the loveliest out of all the gods. 

What an exceptional woman she is!

#SupportArtistsOfColor

Dope

Apo Whang-Od has been training her niece, Grace Palicas, so don’t worry she definitely isn’t going to be the last batok artist.

Some corrections

They claim affiliation, not sameness with ISIS.

They’re the Maute Group, not ISIS.

Discussing Colorism be like...

“I didn’t choose to be light skin…”

“People asked me if I’m mixed..”

“Not all light skinned people…”

“You’re just mad at light skin people…”

“My boyfriend is dark skin..”

“Dark SKINS…”

“Y’all playing into a fake letter. This is all fake Willie Lynch stuff.”

“We all Black. We still niggas. Light or dark, it don’t matter.”

Fun fact: I didn’t really make this post. These are REAL responses from people on ONE of my posts about colorism. Think about that. 

What the hell is wrong with people?

“I didn’t choose to be light skin …”

So. White people don’t choose to be white but that doesn’t mean they still don’t reap benefits for it. Next.

“People asked me if I’m mixed …”

Yes, that’s an insult, however, please remember that they’re only asking this question so they get affirmation that you’re black mixed with WHITE (because God forbid you’re mixed with anything else). This would mean that, once they get that affirmation, subtle changes in how they treat you compared to darker men and women will arise. You may not notice it but everyone else will.

“Not all light skinned people …”

Pause. I know the next line after this will probably be, “I didn’t choose to be light skin.” If so, refer to number 1. If not, still take your ass back to number 1.

“You’re just mad at light skin people…”

Double pause. Yes, they’re mad. They have a right to be mad. Colorism has made darker men and women to be seen as insignificant, the butt of jokes, incapable or loving, etc. So yeah, they’re mad. Not at light skin people, but the benefits handed to them.

“My boyfriend is dark skin …”

Good, that means he doesn’t need you to cha cha slide your ass into a topic that you’re acting as his oppressor in. This is probably a topic he already knows all too well, so, until he can respond with his piece on colorism on a level that you can understand, shut the fuck up, thank you.

“Dark SKINS…”

I need whoever reblogged with that comment to stop addressing darker skin tone like a disease.

“Y’all playing into a fake letter. This is all fake Willie Lynch stuff.”

I don’t know what kind of world they’re looking at but I’m gonna assume that the horse still has its blinders on.

“We all Black. We still niggas. Light or dark, it don’t matter.”

But it sure did matter to the salve owners when they placed lighter African Americans inside that house and kept darker African Americans in the fields. It sure did matter when it came to the casting of Nina Simone. It sure did matter when almost every rapper decided what kind of women they wanted in their music video.

Fuck outta here with that “we’re all the same” bullshit because I doubt anyone would switch places, so, unless you know or are capable enough to understand the severity of the situation, sit down and listen. Educate yourself.

Ummmm, I love you?!! #GoOffSis 

you’re really reading into this shit too fucking much. Colorism is not a thing, it’s not even a real word

@hesh-til-my-death I’m sorry, but colorism had been recognized in the Oxford dictionary sooooo what was that “not even a real word” thing again? Also, come back when you become a dark skinned African American and then we’ll talk. Ta-ta👋🏾

First off, I’ve never heard that word in my life. Second, it had a red line under it when I typed it. Third, fuck off I can repost whatever the fuck I want.

BECAUSE YOU’RE WHITE. I don’t discuss Black issues with White people and you can’t blog whatever the fuck you want when your’re blocked. 

Then discuss black issues with me. The only colorism I ever see is dark on light, not the other way around.

Akin to an eagle

inspired by the Kalinga (a Philippine tribe) cultural video posted up by pinoy-culture. (video)

how Kalinga women are tough, proud, and dance like a soaring eagle who looks down on earth.

to everyone who uses the rising sun flag for decoration bc they think it’s harmless, stop. just stop. the rising sun represents colonial japan’s history of violence and genocide. it’s flat out offensive to many korean, chinese, filipino, and indonesian people whose countries were destroyed by the effects of japanese war crimes.

ppl need to know this. ive seen this image like everywhere from phone cases to music videos by famous musicians idk why ppl dont do research before using an image like that???? 

From Indonesia’s first feminist to a Vietnamese policewoman-turned-blogger, a selection of women who have made a mark on the region

Rosa Henson “I am telling my story so that they will feel humiliated. It is true: I am an avenger of the dead.” These were the words of María Rosa Luna Henson (1927-1997), referring to the Japanese soldiers who, during the occupation of the Philippines during World War II, forced her and hundreds of other Filipinas to become sex slaves, or ‘comfort women’. Henson, initially a resistance fighter, was captured by the Japanese in 1943 and repeatedly raped over a period of nine months. In 1992, aged 65, she decided to speak out about her ordeal – the first of her generation to speak about the war crimes. Hundreds of others followed her example, bringing their stories to the world’s attention and kickstarting a process of recognition, reconciliation and compensation from the Japanese government that continues to this day.

Ambiga Sreenevasan Currently president of Malaysia’s National Human Rights Society (Hakam), Ambiga Sreenevasan has a long record in the field of human rights in her country. After studying law and serving on the bar in the UK, she returned to her home country in 1982 to work as a lawyer. She served as president of the Malaysian Bar Association from 2007 to 2009 and co-chaired the electoral reform movement Bershih. She is a strong advocate for women’s rights, repeatedly confronting sexism by parliamentarians and heading a successful campaign for women’s testimony to be given equal weight in sharia courts. She has also fought for the rights of indigenous people. In 2009, she was one of eight recipients of the US Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage award. Her efforts have drawn the ire of many, with hate mail, death threats and a Molotov cocktail directed towards her.

Prateep Ungsongtham Hata Born in a Bangkok slum in 1952, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant father and a Thai mother, Prateep Ungsongtham Hata is notable for her decades of work supporting the poor residents of the capital’s Khlong Toei district. Having no birth certificate, she was denied a state education and gained a deep personal knowledge of the difficulties of paying for schooling by earning her own money to pay for it. In 1968, she started her own makeshift school, an organisation that grew into the Duang Prateep (Flame of Hope) Foundation, established using the prize money from her Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1978. Thailand held its first direct elections for the senate in 2000 and she became senator for Bangkok, serving for six years. During her time as senator she chaired the Social Development and Human Security Commission, which worked with 14 slum communities in the Thai capital.

Raden Ajeng Kartini Hailed as Indonesia’s first feminist, Raden Ajeng Kartini was born in April 1879 in Java to an aristocratic family. Unusually for the times, she received a primary education along with the children of Dutch colonial planters and came under the influence of the feminist wife of one of the planters. From the age of 12, following local tradition, she was kept in seclusion until married. During that period, she wrote letters protesting the gender inequality of Javanese traditions. In 1903, under family pressure, she married a local regent 26 years her senior – despite being offered a scholarship to study abroad. The same year, she persuaded her husband to allow her to open Indonesia’s first primary school that did not discriminate on the basis of class. Posthumously, Mr J. H. Abendanon, the Minister for Culture, Religion and Industry in the East Indies, collected and published her letters, her words giving many Indonesian women inspiration to fight for crucial rights.

Ta Phong Tan A former Communist party of Vietnam member and former officer in the Vietnamese security forces, in 2012, Ta Phong Tan earned herself a ten-year prison sentence for criticising the party. She began blogging in 2004 and lost her job and party membership in 2006. Undimmed, she continued to post critical pieces and exposés on her blog, Cong Ly va Su That (Justice and Truth). She was eventually arrested in 2011, and in July 2012, while Tan was in detention, her mother self-immolated in front of a government office, subsequently dying of her wounds. In September that year, Tan was handed her jail sentence, standing trial with two other prominent bloggers for writing anti-state propaganda. Released after three years, she now lives in the US.

Pantene Phillippines #whipit Labels against women

This is so relevant it’s not even funny.

ok but doesn’t the 10pm-5am curfew in Baltimore mean that everyone other than the police working the night shift is now out of work for the week? like how are u going to financially affect tens of thousands of ppl by making it a criminal offense to be outside in the city their tax dollars pay to upkeep?? this is literally the definition of systematic oppression like ur racism is transparent as fuck fuck y'all

so apparently the deal is if you’re out past the curfew, you must have documentation from your employer that states that you’re on your way to or from work. my parents will occasionally talk about when they were living under the marcos dictatorship in the philippines, and one of the first things they usually mention is a curfew that was really similar to this. so word, this curfew system is not only racist n classist as fuck, it’s also a policy that’s reminiscent of a paramilitary state.