#Orientalist

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almag1cc

y’all shocked about mulan like they didn’t completely fuck over arabs in Aladdin you can yell all u want about how the origins of 1001 nights mixed arab/pers/desi stories but

Hiroko Tabuchi

HirokoTabuchi

I really, really can’t stand this about Japan. And it’s just accepted by most, like it’s normal https://twitter.com/unseenjapansite/status/1293678400863744000 Okay, “I think” then — now perhaps direct your attention to the

Sana Saeed

SanaSaeed

Has anyone watched Unorthodox on Netflix? Is it like those Muslim women stories where a woman finds liberation by fleeing the chains of her faith with a culmination of that

erique 张 (they/them)

er_ique

This is the first discourse I'm reading upon waking up?? I'm going back to sleephttps://twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1381390534862893057 Love to know we'll always be stuck between being accused of assimilating/being white washe

Joe DiCola

JoeDiColaChi

Robin D.G. Kelley's foreword to Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson is fascinating and I am inordinately excited to read this book. I wish I'd read this in law school, and

Tom Fowdy

Tom_Fowdy

You can already tell from the emerging environment that most specifically the governments of "Anglosphere" countries are going to predominantly play the politics of blame against China. Continental Europe less

mesopotamian speech and debate club

bellahadith

Although I understand the intention, I think uncritically posting photos of Agatha Christie and her imperial / orientalist "travels" through Iraq is irresponsible. For many, Iraqis in particular, this isn't

Emily Warren

LetsBanquet

Oh boy.I feel like there's an essay somewhere in all this for the modern food historian ready to write it. I have absolutely no time for that kind of project,

Hafsa Khawaja

Hafsa_Khawaja

Recently studied about the urdubegis so thought I'd share something about them here. Thread ahead. #MughalHistory #SouthAsia The urdubegis were armed women who were tasked with guarding the Mughal zenana

Bikrum Gill

bikrumsinghgill

Been disconcerting seeing people in the heart of empire - US, UK, Israel - celebrate coming post-vaccination world at very time in which people in Delhi and Gaza are begging

Navya | 🌺🤍

guanshanjin

since i'm being controversial today anyway, i also think that a huge root of the "anti-fujoshi" stance stems from western social justice practice, namely that if you're lgbt, you have

The Red Nation

The_Red_Nation

TRN stands firmly against the settler United States’ imperialist aggression towards China and the resulting trends of rising Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism within their hegemon. As anti-imperialists, our position will

Joshua Luna

Joshua_Luna

The reaction to Thessaly La Force's article about PARASITE provides an unintentional but revealing case study about how AsAms truly feel about mixed-white Asians. So many dragged her as a

John Sanilac 👳

JohnSanilac

Ancient vs modern returns to #whichodalisque, with a girl in the "video game concept art" style and a classic slave market photo shoot.I pose you riddles three:Which image did you

Simran Jeet Singh

SikhProf

Two people at #aarsbl19 have asked how I, as a Sikh, could teach Buddhist history."Seems like a conflict of interest," he joked. "But you're not even Buddhist." she said.Here's the

Covell Meyskens

cfmeyskens

Thread: The idea here seems to be that China's 5,000 years of history somehow is going to help it get a vaccine quicker than the US, because it has a