i am half agony, half hope

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OP is a Mauritanian student based in Beijing, and she joined the first Across Latitudes cultural exchange festival at China University of Geosciences. Cnetizens say she rocked both her traditional Mauritanian attire and Chinese hanfu. (cr 艾米 Amy)

#HIS SIGNATURE MOVE

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

I just watched a fantastic video about what attachment actually means in Star Wars. It might reframe the way you think about the Jedi, Anakin, and the whole conversation around love in the first six movies.

The Value of the Jedi - Love, Attachments, and Amatonormativity

For me personally, one of the biggest takeaways for me was learning the word amatonormativity (means society treats romantic love and marriage as the ultimate, default goal of a meaningful life.) The video digs into how that assumption shapes the way we interpret the Jedi’s teachings, and how it leads us to project our own cultural biases onto the actual story George Lucas is telling.

It isn’t a short video and it’s packed with thoughtful analysis:

how Jedi philosophy gets misunderstood

why “attachment” isn’t the same thing as “love” and is always one-sided

why romantic monogamy gets treated as more important than friendship, community, or family

how Western cultural norms shape the way we rank relationships

and how all of that affects the way we judge Anakin’s fall

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