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Fandom person: So, you are a pickme.

Me:

In my absence, Eman's village's situation has been getting worse, far far worse. As the fabric of Sudan's medical and other social infrastructures have been destroyed by war and genocide, displaced people are seeing a high risk of disease outbreaks amongst them. This is what Eman's village is currently going through, and her family has been one of many affected by dengue fever.

Eman is scared, alone, and feels like her family's situation is invisible. Please show her that she isn't alone, and that her and her family and her village aren't invisible. Please if you can spare anything, help Eman out.

Note that some of this isn't strictly limited to a media analysis perspective but it's still important for a non-fictional and historical perspective too.

If others, especially Indigenous than me have issue with any sources listed, please feel free to let me know. Also note that some of the videos and documentaries explicitly touch on genocide, forced separation and child scoops, etc.

Beyond Ainu studies changing academic and public perspectives

The Politics of Colonial Translation: On the Narrative of the Ainu as a ‘Vanishing Ethnicity’ - https://apjjf.org/katsuya-hirano/3013/article

 The Ainu and their culture: A critical twenty-first century assessment. Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. https://apjjf.org/chisato-kitty-dubreuil/2589/article

The Time is Now: The Power of Native representation in entertainment - https://illuminative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IllumiNative_industry-guide_June-2022.pdf.

O’Brien, J. M. (2010). Firsting and lasting: Writing Indians out of existence in New England.

Raheja, M. H. (2013). Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, visual sovereignty, and representations of Native Americans in film. University of Nebraska Press

 Konzett, Delia Caparoso. Hollywood’s Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War. Rutgers University Press, 2017.

Dismembering Lahui

Silva, Noenoe K. Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Duke University Press, 2004

Western-Constructed Narratives of Hawai’i - https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=history-in-the-making

La Croix, Sumner J. Hawai’i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 3rd Edition edited by Gina Starblanket

Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life Settler States and Indigenous Presence René Dietrich, Kerstin Knopf

Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (J. Kēhaulani Kauanui)

@gazavetters Vetted List lists Ahmed and his family at #740.

but the thing is that this stuff is just factually wrong. eugenics doesnt work. race science isnt true. theyre morally wrong, yes, but theyre also factually incorrect, ideas that are deployed in service of monstrous ideology despite the fact that they simply arent true.

Anti-blackness in the indie scene is a serious issue and we should always call it out even if it seems like a "nothing-burger," but at the same time you should always uplift and support black indie creators regardless. Solely bringing them up when some popular indie creator gets called out for racism will only lead them to being forgotten when the controversy dims down and everyone moves on to something else.

something, also thanks to everybody who literally atomized my curly midna with appreciation, i was not expecting such a phenomenon! will post more of her in the future curly form for sure.