Cook 4 Soul

Ryoichi Ikegami, Mai the Psychic Girl

DREAM HUNTER Rem Minami Azabu Maho Club cd insert images

my backyards so cooool 🦌

Original illustrations by Mutsumi Inomata / 1985, 1986 (Tsuki no Koe, Hoshi no Yume artbook)

But outside the prying eyes of curious strangers Ainu people live Ainu lives every day, regardless of who notices. In a chise, or an apartment, in regalia or blue jeans, in Ainu Moshir or Repun Moshir, the way we move through the world and the impressions we leave behind us are inherently and inalienably Ainu, and every day we live an Ainu life on our own terms.

Would you need a petticoat in space…?

Clean water, clean air, access to nutritious food, etc; access based on zip code. A well known case of environmental racism is the Flint water crisis. Less effort goes into neighborhoods for poc and tending to them

(cartoon by Jen Sorenson)

This is possibly in response to a lack of a unified diaspora in Asian culture. Black Americans (especially those descended from slavery) had no other options than to unify, but those from Asian countries, usually don’t, or at best, form small enclaves of like cultured people. There seems to be no Pan-Asian diaspora in the US, and many young Asian Americans tend to gravitate to Black culture.

As an older Asian-American looking back, I can see this double bind so clearly, but it’s impossible to expect 13-year-olds to understand it and therefore escape it. We (as in older Asian-Americans) have to find a better way to show them.