Protect Asian Lives - Tumblr Posts
dear internauts hopefully reading this post
my real name will remain anonymous but you can call me Olivia, I am a worker in the fan project @the-rainbow-neighborhood as a voice actress and an artist and I'm proud to say that this is the first job i have to finally enter this beautiful place called the animation company under the hand of a nice boss.
sadly, most of the people working in this proyect (the boss included) are rather young, some underage even, we all have passion on creating a fan serie based on welcome home, and Welcome home has a lot of LGBTQ content in it.
The KOSA laws will, instead of just censoring or regulating, ban the accounts of every user under the age of 18 from the internet to "protect" kids from dangerous content, and by dangerous content, they include LGBTQ, history of marginalized groups, mental health, sexual edication, birth control and abortion content and resources.
they will also use extremly invasive online surveillance of all internet users and with the invasive parental control they are going to use, children victims of familiar abuse won't be able to reach out for help.
Now, let's get personal, a lot of Staff in the TRN project staff is gay, trans and some of them went trough abusive family enviroments (names won't be revealed) a lot of us have sever mental issues and need help or at least venting. KOSA won't only delay the project, it will harm the staff in a personal level too!
there's nothing I can do due to not being american, but you can help, down there will be links in wich you can help to prevent KOSA from censoring freedom of expression and censoring our identities
please, keep our children safe, and by our children, we mean ALL of them, the queer kids, the mentally ill kids, the neurodivergent kids, the trans kids, the AFAB kids, the children of color. ALL
remember, censorship, wont eliminate the creeps, it will just make them less vissible
protect asian lives. say it with me.
“protect asian lives”
asians worldwide are being beaten and killed. and it keeps going unnoticed. if you are being silent, fuck you.
the amount of hate crimes against asians have risen 1900%. it’s not our fucking fault we are in this pandemic. asians arent a virus or a disease. leave us the fuck alone.
now say it again.
PROTECT ASIAN LIVES
the media needs to be held accountable and call these incidents what they are:
HATE CRIMES AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS.
they need to be charged as hate crimes.
the shooting in Atlanta of 8 massage parlour workers by a white man was a white supremacist hate crime and the latest in a series of attacks on Asians in the US. however, it’s also extremely important to note that the group he targeted are a community that is already more vulnerable to state violence than many, in form of police raids, deportations, and systematised stigmatisation. this is an industry that’s often conflated with and overlapping with sex work, and the industry has faced decades of criminalisation and dehumanisation, with a long history of being targeted by cops and systemic injustice along with racialised misogyny and fetishisation. they are also often excluded from conversations about the latest rise of anti-asian racism in the US, since many do not fulfill the “american” part of asian-american.
if can donate, also consider donating to red canary song, butterfly, and swan, grassroots organisations and activists that fight for migrant and labour justice for migrant workers and sex workers.
This is a topic that we discussed in my school. A girl in my class (who was white) asked the question. "Why is it offensive to tell someone 'oh your English is really good'." And at the time I really didn't not know what to say to her. I knew it was offensive. I would get offended by it if somebody said that to me or to my parents. But I couldn't figure out why.
After a lot of thinking over the weekend I finally realized. And this post and article further articulate that.
By telling us "oh your English is very good!" It implies that you did not expect it to be. You expected that we didn't belong here. That you expected us to be an "other"
Maybe you didn't mean it. Maybe you genuinely thought it was a compliment. But that's not the way it is taken.
"Where are you from?" From -----. "No, where are you really from?" or "What are you?".
While it doesn't really hurt me when I'm asked, those words are a constant reminder in the back of my mind that I don't fully belong in the place where I grew up in most of my life. It's microagressions like these that add to the feelings of being seen as "perpetual foreigners". Those are the words that really hit the spot from Eric Nam's Time article. On top of that, the model minority myth on Asians that has been ingrained in our families for generations is a mindset that hurts us more than it uplifts us.
To be seen as foreigners in the same place where they told us to be good examples and to set the standards of success among minority groups is like being invited to the table but being told to stay in our spot and to stay silent.
As the model minority, we were told to get an education, to work hard, and to have successful careers in order to achieve the American Dream. My Filipino mom, aunts, uncles, and cousins became the doctors and nurses you see in the frontlines battling the pandemic. Did you know that 16% of nurses in the U.S. are immigrants and a third of those, the largest group, are Filipinos? There's so many of us as nurses that we've become the backbone of many healthcare facilities around the world. There's the big stereotype for Filipino children to follow their parents' footsteps of becoming nurses (sorry mom!). Yet, achieving this American Dream is not enough for us to be seen as "true Americans". We are hailed as essential workers, but at the end of the day we are still called "kung-flu" or "Chinese virus".
I've faced racist remarks and microaggressions my whole life to that it's just numbing. Numbing to the point it feels normal and jokes doesn't hurt me when it should. And this certain rhetoric didn't start just now. It's been growing since the start of the pandemic. Being afraid of going to places, I remember expressing to my friends my worries of possibly being targeted during a Europe trip we planned last year (the trip never happened). The Filipina woman attacked in NYC hits close to home, as I think about my own mom who also go on walks to church, and my relatives and friends who live in NYC. This past week my parents went on a mini roadtrip by themselves and I was honestly worried for their safety.
I'm thankful to be around people who condemn these hateful actions and express the same sentiments I do. But there are those not fortunate enough to have that support system. What really helps is to listen, to educate yourself, to donate, and to amplify and advocate. I'm not here to tell you what to do but the progress starts when we all decide to step up.
hello! just a lil smth, please don’t scroll!
tw // anti-asian violence
there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday
all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):
- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)
- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)
- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)
- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained
+ stop asian hate gofundme
+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)
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if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]