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QUEEN HULKSMASH

@queenhulksmash-blog / queenhulksmash-blog.tumblr.com

Bay bred Southeast Asian American feminist as fuck I believe in Hip-hop & Power to The People "Know History, Know Self. No History, No Self."
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Can I tell you a secret? You don’t have to be in a relationship.    I mean it. I know they force it down your throat until you choke on it. Girls aren’t pretty unless they’re wanted. Boys aren’t men unless they’re having sex with someone. People aren’t lovable until they’re dating someone.    But a relationship won’t always make you happy, and as wonderful as romance is, it isn’t the only love that exists. I have seen friendships that are deeper and more pure than couples who swear it’s forever - and yet the friendship is the one people ignore.    I have heard so often “nobody loves me” out of the mouths of people who are single. And it kills me because if you ask them: where are your parents, your teachers, your classmates, your pets - they say, yes, okay, but it doesn’t count. Of course it counts, love doesn’t diminish just because someone doesn’t want to have sex with you. In fact, doesn’t it sort of make that love more real that they want nothing - not even a date - out of you?   It is pretty to be in love. It’s magical, I’m sure. But it’s also wonderful to stop for ice cream in your prom dress with six other girls. It’s also wonderful to go visit the world with nothing but a bunch of buddies who are really excited about learning.    The problem is: we’ve made everything about “the one”. But maybe “the one” is just you, loving yourself, having fun, and being happy. Maybe instead of looking for our other halves, we should be piecing ourselves together.   Maybe I wasn’t born unfinished. Maybe I am the one who makes myself better.

Single serving size // r.i.d (via inkskinned)

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agoldenfieldofflowers
I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

Warsan Shire (via 4a0000)

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Buku Fixi Heat: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology Flesh: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology Trash: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology Malaysia (2016) [Source], [Source], [Source]

I helped to co-edit the first volume above: Heat! It features contemporary writing from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, both fiction and creative non-fiction, all of it good.

There’s a launch going on in London tomorrow, 11 April 2016:

You are invited to the London Launch of HEAT, FLESH & TRASH, hosted by the founder of Buku Fixi and Fixi Novo, Amir Muhammad.
Join us at Daunt Books Cheapside. Meet some of the editors and writers and mingle! 
There will be drinks and snacks.
HEAT, FLESH & TRASH: a threesome of Southeast Asian urban anthologies. We chose to interpret ‘urban’ as a state of mind rather than population count or infrastructural development, so a few of these stories and essays take place in very remote places indeed. But they shake it up, they twist and shout, they wanna show you what it’s all about.

Register at Eventbrite!

But if you wanna read these as e-books, you can buy them straight away at Smashwords:

Heat 

Flesh

Trash

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tigerbalmproject

A short list of mantras for Women of Color

So tumblr user mcharrilennostarr asked me to come up with a list of things to help empower women of color. I took a bit of time to think about it and here’s what I came up with.

  1. I will hold my head high when people expect me to be looking down at my shoes
  2. I do not exist within the confines of your stereotypes
  3. I will fight against the status quo when the status quo alienates me
  4. I will not smile when I do not want to smile
  5. My body is mine and only mine If I share it with you that is a privilege and not a right
  6. I do not exist as your sexual fantasy
  7. I will recognize that those in power will never give me the tools I need to overthrow them. I will find those tools myself.
  8. I will not be your caretaker. Your mother, your mammy, your nanny. You will need to learn to take care of yourself.
  9. I will take care of myself first
  10. I will not listen when I’m told white people and men are more intelligent than I am. They aren’t and I’ll prove it.
  11. When I am tired I will say I’m tired. When I am sad I will say I’m sad. When I am weak I will say I’m weak.
  12. I will love who I want to love
  13. I will laugh in the face of my oppressors when they try to tell me it is me who is oppressing them by daring to speak out against them
  14. Sometimes I may be the damsel in distress. That is a right that I am entitled to. Sometimes I will cry for assistance and expect to be helped. 
  15. I will abandon eurocentric beauty ideals
  16. I am not your one-night-exotic-stand. You say you’re feeling feverish over me? I hope the illness kills you. 
  17. I will not submit to you because you do not own me
  18. I can be feminine if I want to. I can dress how I want to. 
  19. I am always on the team that protects and empowers women of color
  20. Decolonization is a daily struggle. When I feel like I am drowning I will reach out for help from my sisters. When I feel as though I can no longer stand I will ask for a shoulder to lean on. I know that I am not alone. There are millions of women who are standing with me.

Please add to the list if you think of more!

This is my favorite post I’ve ever written 

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We see movies in which people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. Indeed, the message received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are often brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving, who substitute their mystified visions because they do not really know how to genuinely portray loving interaction.

“all about love: New Visions” by bell hooks (via memoriasconsazon)

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radicalbehavior

A lesson that we can’t afford not to be taught.

“This is not some wacko in the bushes with a raincoat.”

See, far too many people view rape as something that can only take place between strangers in a dark alley - no. In order to eradicate rape and work towards dismantling rape culture, we have to change the definition, teach men that not only is it morally inconceivable to sexually assault women, but that the body of a woman belongs to HER at all times, and associate a negative social stigma to the act of rape while informing people that any form of coercion is, in fact, rape.

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night--times

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Bay Area WOC Fam...

Are any of y’all going to the Empowering Women of Color Conference this weekend at UC Berkeley? If so, come through to WOCAT’s workshop during Session 1! I would love to see your beautiful faces! More information is below. <3 

#ewocc#woc#women of color#howmediawriteswoc
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