Imogen's blog

Unfortunately, tech is still mostly a male space. I almost never see women online discussing degoogling or FOSS alternatives. Attaining privacy in this world feels impossible, and maybe it is, but it's worth trying and it's worth supporting free software and rejecting as many corporate apps as you can.

Every death brings the Finless Porpoise closer to extinction, by Gao Baoyan (2011)

I hate the fact that people will perceive you as lazy or super-religious for not wearing makeup. I hate the language people use to defend and encourage wearing makeup. “It enhances your features, you’ll feel so much more confident. you’re pretty, but you would look and feel so much better if you apply some blush —if you had darker eyelashes.”

do these people hear themselves. You feel more confident because you were trained from birth to associate makeup with being a woman. every advertisement, every female character in film, tv, kids shows, every famous woman. most likely your mom your sister your teacher - damn near every woman you have ever interacted with in your formative years wore makeup.

and in Spanish speaking circles online they sharing gore pictures of dead African babies in online chats so much it has a label named “BND”? Another Black teen was murdered recently by an Asian American store owner convinced he was stealing despite putting items back. He shot him in the back.

yall dont deserve nothing from Black people in any part of the diaspora, irdc. this shit makes me so angry but the demands for an expectation of actionable organizing and dismantling of the white supremacist project that is the US is laid at our collective feet and no one else’s is so crazy to me. how are Black ppl supposed to generate trust for nonblack ppl that hasn’t been demonstrated in a sustained, recent, manner, without us having to force the rest of the world to see us?

Idpol is divisive until it’s time to self adopt the moniker of the Global South and that often doesn’t include & backseats Black African exploitation/extraction. it’s hella transparent how nonblack leftists only mention Sudan, Congo, Somalia, etc. as afterthoughts to their awareness and solidarity posts focusing on Palestine but feel entitled to call Black leftists “zog slaves” for not making dedicated media to the issue they feel the most important, regardless if to these Black leftists making Black issues their focus and niche.

the video is even worse. these Chinese and Asian social media users are actually going to remote African villages to film themselves abusing, terrorizing, and humiliating Black children.

One clip shows a Chinese man holding a young Black girl on his lap and having her repeat sentences in Chinese. she doesn’t know what she’s saying but the captions show him having her say, “ I have no value. I’m just a retard.”

im sick to my stomach.

editing to add youtube video link:

Gyas Jewelmark or Gyas Sarota Metalmark (Sarota gyas), family Riodonidae, Peru