Under the read more is a huuuuuuuge (70+) list of free resources I’ve compiled during my time studying Thai, with some resources on Isaan and Lao as well. I’ve organized it by alphabetical order for Tumblr but you can view by level, format, and content on Notion (you don’t need an account to view btw). Since I’ve been using Notion to organize and keep track of all these resources that’s also where you’ll find more notes and future updates. This list focuses on resources meant specifically for language learners and does not include native content made for native speakers.

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I'm not like Mad at anyone who does this and I'm obviously not in charge of how anyone else tags shit on their own blogs, whatever, but it's always bummed me out when my sex Ed posts get reblogged and tagged with 18+, minors dni, etc. personally I actually very much want teenagers to learn about their bodies and safer sex but I guess I'm just the guy who wrote the thing.

by and large I am not an angry man but once I watched a fellow sex educator present to a room full of college students and, upon being gently challenged by one of the students who objected to them describing sex as something that happens between adults, said with very palpable disdain "I don't want to talk about kids fucking." and I was so angry about it that I made myself nauseous.

not just teens, either. every couple years I give up my Sundays for a few months to teach sex ed to 4th-6th graders, unpaid. and I don't do it because it's always fun or easy or great for my health, I do it because those are human people with changing bodies and feelings who deserve to have someone who gives a shit take the time to talk honestly with them so that they might make less painful mistakes later.

ah, this has gotten notes. now we begin a game of Is Someone Going To Call Me A Pedophile For This.

and the ironic thing is that teaching comprehensive sex ed as young as possible (to an age appropriate extent of course) is like literally the best way to keep kids safe bc it allows them to know if what’s happening to them is wrong. especially since the most likely abuser is a parent. who’s obviously not going to teach them that they deserve bodily autonomy. it sounds icky but teaching kids about sex is what lets them know if they’re being raped, and unfortunately a scarily high amount of kids are preyed upon.

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸.

2021 even

This isn't a bug, this is intentional

one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.

what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.

star trek heritage post (June 9th, 2017)

queer palestinian short film: "dawoud, ya yonathai"

queer short cuts is a biweekly newsletter where i share queer & trans short film recommendations. i’m featuring some of my favorite films on tumblr because why not

palestine | 6 minutes | 2020 | experimental short film audio in arabic; english subtitles embedded

watch on vimeo, and check out the website of creator qais assali, a palestinian interdisciplinary artist

I watched Dawoud, Ya Yonathai like three weeks ago and there's a particular moment that still sits with me.

at some point during the film, it sounds like Qais Assali is repeating certain words and phrases over and over again. and, while listening, I was suddenly hit with this thought about the power of words.

words have power. speaking them into existence matters, naming a thing matters. (to name atrocities, mistreatment. to name cultivation, strength.) and while speaking words into existence absolutely carries this energy with it saying words over and over again can also have different effects.

like the effect of normalizing (for instance), which can do so many things. it can help spread awareness, ease conversations, broaden inclusivity. it can also generate indifference, complacency, dismissiveness.

and when I heard Qais Assali saying the same words repeatedly, I thought of how words can lose their initial meaning as they're repeated out of context. how snippets, phrases, paragraphs can be taken out of context to mean something quite different from what the speaker intended.

how the retelling of history will always be influenced by the person who's telling the story and by the people who are listening.

there's a messiness in communication that comes through in the film. through the mentions of misreadings and viewing the past through the lens of the present. with the overlapping audio and inconsistent subtitles.

and I think about this a lot now, after watching the film. about wanting to understand what I'm taking in as much as possible, as close to what the speaker intended as I possibly can, while also accepting that an essence of distortion cannot help but exist as messages travel from one person to another. it's like the act of translating: we can only do our best to interpret, an exact translation is unlikely.

in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don't make small talk, dont act friendly, don't fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you're affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!

"The thobe is the bullet that will scatter into the faces of our enemies.

"Meet Samira, the Palestinians woman wielding her traditional dress as a weapon of strength and defiance." from The Tatreez Circle, 14/Apr/2024:

This is literally the core of what our fight for liberation means

Tomorrow I’m going on a 7-day long hunger strike. I’m doing this in solidarity with the starving Palestinians in Gaza, who’ve been enduring horrendous conditions for more than half a year now—so much so that the IPC projects 1,701,000 Gazans, essentially half of the entire Gazan population, to be in IPC 5 (catastrophe/famine) by July 2024.

I’ve raised 420 dollars to Anera to corroborate each day of my hunger strike; still, if you have anything to spare, please consider donating more to their cause. Anera is one of very few humanitarian aid organizations that have managed to contend with Israeli’s constant aggression, their strikes on aid trucks and their purposefully shutting down the borders through which aid passes, to bring food and medical supplies to a still rising number of displaced malnourished, wounded Gazans. Anything is something, even if you may think a few dollars won’t make a difference.

I’ll also be cold quitting social media for the time I’m on hunger strike. Any posts from May 1 through May 8 will be queued. Thank you for donating to my hunger strike 🤍 it means a lot

Some more stats btw that I think were gravely sobering… this article is both a very telling and very heart-wrenching read

Look. At. What. You. Guys. Did.

With the help of the funds you guys raised through the last post, Mona and some volunteers were able to cook and distribute so many chicken and rice meals that fed entire families!!!!! This is amazing!!! Please remember to donate, you are changing and helping maintain so many lives. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS. P*ypal.

G*f*ndme for the initiative.

G*f*ndme to help settle in Egypt.

Instagram to track progress.

Don't forget! None of this is possible without Mona's hard work! If you'd like to send her a kind message please respond in the replies or the tags or reblogs! She was very happy to recieve kind messages from you guys under the last post as well!

She also distributed cash to dialysis patients who are victims of water pollution and chemical warfare!

The British archives have full information on the Nakba every single fruit on every single tree and every single name. Information on everyone that was killed and stolen from, everything they burned and pillaged and stole. Last time (couple years ago) I checked they were still classified. This genocide NEVER ENDED.

indians need to address their internalised anti-blackness tbh.

like i've heard so many desi liberals on this site champion india (the hindutva ideal of it, to be specific) as this- progressive, welcoming, diverse place where there's absolutely no racism whatsoever and we love foreigners and are so hospitable and whatnot. and uh.

that argument goes null and void the second you remember india's colourism and how the country's culture values fair skin to an obsessive degree. fairness products are a multi-million dollar industry in south asia. all the time, we're told to stay away from the sun lest we get darker. i used to be fair as a small kid, and got darker as i grew up, and now my relatives and even my mother will tell me about how much prettier i used to be.

on the other end of the coin, indian leftists will come online and reblog all those posts about anti-blackness and calling out racism, and talk about their issues and struggles in india and it will be all well and good until black bloggers also share their opinions and discuss and suddenly the leftism has left our bodies and we are going to go on a fucking anti-black tirade. we are so progressive btw.

and when black bloggers call them out on it it's all oh my country sucks for me as well oh you dont know my pain. girl shut up

dont even get me started on the right wingers tbh thats a whole different story.

anti-blackness is something that isn't limited to white people. and it can be just as pervasive in a society like india's where darker skinned people are viewed as inferior. it's rampant in bollywood and other indian cinema, where blackface, racial slurs, and bad representation is commonplace. cultural appropriation as well, actually.

additionally, MK Gandhi continues to be revered and put up on a pedestal while erasing his racist history. i've heard people calling others the n-slur as if it was nothing but a joke (and of course the whole thing of calling south indians/darker skinned indians the n-word and derogatory insults as well).

for the sake of brevity (and also because i am tired right now) i won't get into all of it but i'll link a few good articles below. please take the time to actually read through them:

and a few on how africans/other black people are treated in india:

bottom line is if you live in india you have definitely been conditioned to colourism and anti-blackness, you must acknowledge that you have it ingrained in you, and work to unlearn it. listen to black people when they tell you you're being racist. don't just shoot back with "but i'm a poc as well", the reason that terms like that exist is due to racism. it doesn't mean anything if you haven't faced racism (which you likely won't if you live in india as an indian, meanwhile anti-blackness is pretty much global). also, as i said, nonblack poc are also very much capable of being racist.

and if all of this offends you, then please take a second to think about why you care about your country's PR more than you care about black people.

everyone is encouraged to reblog. black people's + other south asians' perspectives on this are welcomed. asians from other parts of asia i am aware anti-blackness is pervasive in your communities as well but i would prefer if you either make a separate post or keep it to the tags since im talking about india + south asia specifically here

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