Less of a DNI list—more of a TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING list of things to be aware of that I believe in and uphold, that will feature in the core of this blog. I will allow interactions, but I will hold myself and others accountable. Followers of this blog, I expect that you have read this page in full at the time of your following.
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Fair Warning : Do not republish or share my personal media. Blog contains mild NSFW, sex & kink positivity & uncensored heavy political rants INCL. media criticism, academic racism, race- & gender-based C/SA, massacres & state violence. Centering Asian and Austronesian sapphics. NO FLIRTING.
Anyone can perpetuate bigotry, fascist rhetoric, separatism, assimilationism, fencesitting and exclusionary rhetoric. I will call it out as I see fit.
Minors refrain from interacting re. NSFW. Non-NSFW activism interactions are fine, be well.
This is a SAPPHIC-CENTERED space. Non-Sapphics are allowed to interact but please understand these posts are intended for a Sapphic audience and its language + context revolves around Sapphic queerness.
This blog recognises that DYKE, DAGGER, BULLDAGGER, BULLDIKER, BULLDYKER, BD WOMEN and WLW are AAVE terms with African American history extending to the 19th century. [see post] DOLL & FEMME are Ballroom & Drag terms created by Black, Brown & Latine American queer trans persons, who should be credited for founding a pivotal part of queer consciousness including Butch/Femme history. Some of these were also used by some cis and/or heterosexual persons, transneu, transmascs and men within these cultures and scenes. These terms should not be decontextualised from their cultural history nor should this history go uncredited, and persistent activism be erased.
This is an ASIAN-CENTERED space. Non-Asian BIPOC and white people are allowed to interact but understand these posts are from an Asian person for Asian BIPOC audiences and its language + context revolves around Asian BIPOCs.
Being Asian-centered means I DO NOT FUCK with the idea that “Asians suffer less”, “Asians face less racism”, “Asians are white-adjacent”, “Asians are treated the same/not targeted by whiteness because they’re all light-skinned”, “Asians are collectively white-idolising”, “Asians used to be white” [why do yall say this half-truth and hide the fact that we got declassified as white is bc we rejected whiteness and fought against it 🤨], “Asians are all EAsians only”, “Asians are all middle class and rich capitalists”, “Asians are apolitical and have not consistently fought whiteness”. GTFO with that yellow peril shit, this “obedient model minority” bullshit propaganda and the full-on xenophobia. Asians have done SO MUCH independent original decolonial work in the global south. You just sound uneducated and hateful as fuck and entitled to centering yourselves. See: [Anti-Asianness is Assimilation and seeking Proximity to Whiteness]
No technically no one is forced to stand with each other, but I will be thinking yall are dogshit the whole time. IDGAF if you care or not about that. Lord knows every POC group has their own struggles, have been fighting forever and are also vulnerable to cop brutality, so I get the exhaustion and incentive to exclude and divide ourselves. With this said, I will be snapping if you contribute to racism. I am not blind to how there are groups of people out there who contribute to the racial wedge between BIPOC communities. I KNOW there are people who show dismissiveness, condescension, outright anger, promote “indebtedness” and submission by any platforming of Asian voices. I do not fuck with that. I do not fuck with anyone who is anti-BIPOC and anti-Rainbow Coalition movements while throwing other POCs under the bus either. Promoting heterogeneity is different from saying “fuck all other groups and I’m going to make your resistances especially difficult for you while shitting on you from the sidelines”. I'm not about separatism in any way, shape or form. I can't personally endorse that.
Being pro-Asian means I am PRO-GLOBAL SOUTH AND ANTI-IMPERIALIST. Yes people born and raised and residing in the global north regardless of race, often have a privileged background, more freedoms which contribute to their ANGLOCENTRISM. Anglospheric peoples often have a POV of the world revolving around American politics while peoples from the global south are filtered and judged through said lens. Our labour is commodified, we and our different strategies of resistance and progressiveness are seen as backwards. We are mistreated because yall know you'd get away with it. We are villainised, monolithised and inferiorised. People in the global south understand the importance of respecting CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, of solidarity without assimilation nor sameness, and most of us are against the Westernised ways of promoting cultural homogeneity.
I believe there are unique racist systems of oppression directed at Asian peoples and whenever addressing this, I aim to highlight anti-Asianness as it’s already such an invisibilised topic EVEN in leftist spaces.
Orientalism is a tool used to construct the “West”’s consciousness and moral conscience against the backdrop of a villainised “East”. Any “Western” values will inevitably pose a dichotomy to presumed “Eastern” values, while it emptily appropriates Eastern values.
Asian history is full of Asian victims of colonially-enforced slavery and sexual slavery tied with human and child trafficking. Indentured labour, coercive/kidnapping bond-labourers, and human trafficking are ALL as forms of slavery, check your Anglocentric bias. Slavery in All But The Name
If you deny that Asian people are indigenous & native to their ancestral lands, you might need to brush up on your history. There was violent Eurocolonial and Imperial history by the Dutch, Belgians, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, UK, USA, Canada, NZ and Australia AGAINST all of Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands incl. China. As well as violence related to colonisation & imperialisation done BY several Asian countries including Japan, Korea, China, UAE, Israel, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia against other ethnicities, religions and nations in Asia and the Pacific Islands.
“It’s just missionary work” people can use any spirituality/religion as a justification for military invasions, harmful sanctions and imposing ideologies onto colonised nations/ persons who did not or were unable to consent. Go study how religion has been a tool for colonialism, systemic and ideological control. How religious laws and justifications were weaponised against the Asia-Pacific, to justify colonialism, genocide, create Apartheid states, destroy homes & families, and condition marginalised persons into receptiveness towards the injustices of the system, their persecution and suffering. + FUCK MOTHER TERESA AND HER ‘MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY’ FOR WHAT THEY DID TO SOUTH ASIAN PATIENTS & VOLUNTEERS, SHE DOES NOT DESERVE SAINTHOOD.
Support the sovereignties of all indigenous and native communities including but not limited to the Chinese indigenous peoples, Taiwanese Aborigines, Aboriginal Australians & Torres Strait Islanders, Native Americans (LAND BACK NOW), and the Pacific Islanders (PAPUA MERDEKA). [See: What is Happening in West Papua]
If you believe leftism or anti-capitalism or being marginalised = incapable of harm, I highly suggest expanding your worldview to geopolitics. Review how internationally, even QTBIPOC are capable of systemically oppressing, massacring and colonising other QTBIPOC. Bloody violence disguised as “multicultural” , “leftist” & “anti-capitalist” rhetoric. While White Straight Men™️ may have monopoly on other things, unfortunately being a pathetic selfish asshole is a free market.
At the same time if you believe violence and harm are unique to QTBIPOC perpetrators and is definitive of a “queer / trans” & “race and immigrant problem”, then please book an appointment with a midwife expeditiously to deliver your head out of your ass. Afterwards, go look at your local statistics bc it is mostly (1) Fellow Citizens, (2) Straight [I do not mean cishet. I mean non-Queer] and (3) White folks who will have the highest criminality per capita, esp towards marginalised persons, QTBIPOC and children. NOT counting self-inflicted violence.
If your only Asian allyship is “I love KPOP and Anime”. [See: Appropriation of Black Culture & Sinomisandry in KPOP] KPOP appropriated Black culture, for NB esp. white folks to capitalise on Black & Latine American culture & the fetishisation of Asian bodies. Not to mention the massive human rights violations, grooming of minors and indentured labour involved. Anime as a genre in general promotes the Orientalism and Sinomisogyny against EAsian fem/mes & women, feeding into colonial fantasies.
I’m Chinese, not a communist. No not all Chinese people are agents of the state. No not all Chinese people celebrate communist ideas. I’m not willing to discuss communism.
Marginalised identities are not obligated to educate you. If you will only respect basic human rights and sensitivity to marginalised groups if it satisfies your understanding [coexistent with critical thinking to not fall into sneaky bigoted rationales]. If you believe it’s your right to have marginalised persons do the labour to explain themselves and their cultures to you. Keep yourself in check.
Cultural appreciation is NOT wearing, adopting, purchasing and capitalising on commodified cultural items, symbols, concepts.
Tone-policers. Don’t be a stupid cunt and I wouldn’t have to be mean to you. Change starts with you.
Racefishers, TransRace, TransID, the fuck is wrong with you.
Transphobes, TERFs, Gender Criticals, Exorsexists, Transmedicalists, Transmisogynists, Transandrophobia-Deniers, TMA/TME users. If your trans activism involves excluding and shooting down trans siblings. RADFEMS & BIPHOBES YOU ARE NOT SAFE ON THIS TMRA BLOG. THIS BLOG ACKNOWLEDGES TRANSANDROPHOBIA AND MISANDRY.
Any feminism that engages in any kind of anti-masculinity and misandry-denying rhetoric, and denies harm caused to intersectional marginalised men-aligned identities—beware my blog. “Anti-phallic” impositions [differs from having a personal preference] I believe Intersectional Misandry is a problem deserving more visibility. THIS IS AN INTERSECTIONAL LEFTIST BLOG.
Identity Policers, why are you doing the work for the system like a good little pawn? Disrespecting identities you don’t understand. Silencing or harassing others to obstruct them from talking about their different experiences with identities. Anyone against lesbians, butches and femmes who identify also as mspec, bi, men, or any other “difficult/contradictory identities”. I believe Multi-Spec Sexualities are valid. “Contradicting” labels are valid. Genderfluidity is valid. I am Anti-Cissexism and Anti-Exorsexism.
I am anti-SWERFs. I believe SW is work, I support SW activism, rights, decriminalisation and legalisation of SW without exploitation. SW should not have to wait around for Capitalism to be done away with before they get their rights. I judge nobody for safely and respectfully engaging SW services.
Anti-Kink, Unsafe Kinksters, Kink shamers, you might be uncomfortable here. I am Sex-Positive and this includes the safety to be sex-averse and the freedom to refuse/reject interacting with anything to do with sex.
If you enforce Amatonormativity. I am against impositions of reciprocity and transactionality as a relationship model.
If you think romanticising and sexualising people is the same as humanising them. Think again.
Right-Wingers, why even bother.
“I’m not racist BUT—” mkay proceed to shut your throat for me.
“It’s just a joke”, you’re unfunny and unnecessary. literally nobody asked you to be a mediocre court jester of ill-timed invalidations and distasteful punch-downs. 🫳 🍅
Those who feel entitled to a whole gender group [ie those who attack butch4butch, femme4femme, aroace butch & femmes, or butch & femme independents]; that’s dehumanising.
Beware when you’re weaponising one’s oppressed experiences, other marginalised identities or status against another. Malicious invalidation of others’ experiences with the effects of oppression.
Anyone who thinks Moral OCD, anxiety & depression excuses your racism. Thoughts here “Whiteness is the standard coefficient of privilege”.
Anti-Ableism. Believers in “in/visible disability privilege”. “Neurodivergence and Mental Illnesses are not disabilities”. Believing that just because YOU don’t feel disabled that everyone else with your condition also are not disabled. Believing that acknowledging your disability = weakness and giving up. “Being disabled = differently abled”, “Disabled people must conform to society”. “Disabled people are able to be able” [all of these are typically ableism, disguised].
If you’re against the rights of unhoused/homeless persons, and are Pro-Hostile architecture. If you equate moral failings & homelessness; FYI homelessness and housing instability can happen to ANYONE, ANYTIME, FOR ANY REASON.
If you believe that unhoused persons should be rounded up and forced into mental institutions or buildings (i refuse to call it THEIR “new/halfway homes”) for your comfort. An unhoused person’s chosen community & wherever they call home is the biggest immunity and security for them. Isolating them from it violates their autonomy, makes them even more unsafe and re-enacts the system’s violence on them.
Xenophobes. Anti-immigrant, “Good VS Bad Immigrants”, “Illegal immigrants”, immigrant capitalism (ie “immigrants should be allowed to stay and have rights because they are useful to the economy”). We should be allowed rights and the safety to travel and reside because we are human, not because of how useful we are to you. Immigrants are not your slaves or cattle, our worth and access to rights should not be determined by our labour capital. NO MORE CONCENTRATION, INTERNMENT OR DETAINMENT CAMPS. ABOLISH ICE.
“Passing privilege” and “cultural appropriation” outside of critical race theory. [see: Invisibility is not a Privilege]
If you at all victim-blame for SA, SH or DV. “Ideal victim” mentalities [ie White Womanisms. Believing victims only behave in one specific way, typically self-effacing and muted]. “Why would you go there”, “Were you wearing revealing provocative clothes”. 🫳🍅
I am an Intersectional Leftist & supportive of responsible and effective action. BUT if your romanticised rebellious violence comes from a place of individualism, privilege and untouchability which fails to consider the marginalised communities who will pay the price for your actions, and the disabled and child QTBIPOC bodies who will pave the way for your freedoms: You are not a heroic revolutionist to me. You're a separatist, non-egalitarian and privileged Agitator who uses opportunities founded on the blood sweat and tears of others. And while I understand you, I cannot celebrate you.
I first coined ECHP = Eurocolonial Cisheteropatriarchy, here. It refers to the hegemony as an activated weapon, which is empowered by doing, not just by presence.
When I call anyone or anything “white”, I do not necessarily follow colloquial usage. My usage refers to one of the following: lineage, proximity to whiteness, or the embodiment of colonialism and actions that reify colonial superiority. I do NOT use this lightly.
I disagree that it is possible to be racist towards whiteness. Whiteness differs from “white person”, in that whiteness is a condition of which the white person is the host. Racism is racial prejudice on a systemic level, and is contextual to colonial history and dominance. Whiteness is the universal currency of the system, as it is the system itself. It has not been possible in this world to commit dominant racial prejudice against this dominant system. White persons may experience racial prejudice and misdirected racism on the basis of being seen as non-white. It is the distance from whiteness which they are targeted for. They are not oppressed for whiteness. This does not remove their proximity to whiteness nor their classifications under whiteness which affords them systemic privilege.
I believe there are more models of racism than colourism or anti-Blackness and these are no less severe and systemically disadvantaged. This also means that different people have different proximities to whiteness when viewed through different models. Everyone is capable of being racist and contributing to racist systems by which they’re empowered at the expense of another ethnic minority, nobody is exempt.
I believe that whiteness is a class+race, and is a position granted via colonial superiority, in a system which actively erases cultural and native ties of all. Typically, governments strategically categorise ethnic majorities and whiteness to influence distribution of rights. Although “race is not real” can be said of any racial model as an invented construct, whiteness is the antithesis of indigenous culture and ethnic recognition. As explained here, it is the product of homogeneity, and anti-intersectionality.
Whiteness is not just European or Arab genes. People who weaponise white privilege continued allyship with, and enabling of the ECHP system, Eurocolonial history, Christofascism, capitalistic monopolies and class privilege, as institutionalised by the Anglosphere. I mostly use white to describe systems, objects and vessels, incl. individuals.
Colonising isn’t an act of the past, it is a continuing system. It is not just colonisers from the Middle to Enlightenment Ages so I refuse to use “white” to only refer to them. And although the ECHP does privilege a specific subset of persons who appear to fit the Nordic stereotype to an immediate advantage—to be white also refers to persons who do not actively decolonise themselves of the ECHP, currently participate in, and benefit materially from reifying ANY systemic superior powers outsourced by, or even resembling the ECHP, regardless of the actual ethnicity of persons involved. You are who put them in those positions of power. You have become the ECHP.
I believe that people should be able to safely fall out of love and any form of attachments, be loveless, have inconsistent attachments/emotional intensity and libido, and can voice their discomfort, reject/decline saying “I Love You” regardless of their relation to the person. In addition to above, I believe people are freely allowed to refuse having sex, not divulge their kinks or preferences, refuse being touched without consent, have specific preferences about sex, be non-reciprocal without suffering others’ anger, criticism and judgment. They should be allowed to flirt without any expectations of “escalations” imposed onto them.
I strongly believe that the Anglosphere’s Market of Philanthropy is responsible for the commodification of suffering, prolonging international codependencies, excusing invasion and exploitation, enabling illegal adoption rings, child trafficking and adoptee abuse.
I believe that everyone’s interests in learning any topic should be permitted within reason, and always with trusted guidance until the person feels confident and safe. Examples include risk-assessments and reflections on their personal reasons for learning. It is the trusted guide’s responsibility to ensure exposure is gradually scaled to the person’s self-assessment of readiness, while ensuring that they know they can choose to disengage at any point. This practices being in touch with one’s feelings of dis/comfort, regulate distress tolerance, grow experienced in personal autonomy and thus develop agency in one’s own ability to learn. Now apply this to children.
I believe that children should be afforded unconditional basic human rights, bodily autonomies, personal choices, self-identification, the freedom to play, imagine, socialise beyond one’s 1st & 2nd spaces, and have toys [not necessarily consumer goods, but homemade/DYI especially]. Shelter, food, water, healthcare, privacy, social lives, personal belongings should ideally not be made to feel at constant risk. I believe that ideal parenting styles develops persons, not machines. I also understand that a lot of this depends heavily on circumstance, culture and privilege, and it isn’t yet universally feasible.
I believe that defiance is a necessary step in the formation of personal autonomy and maturation of a person. Nevertheless, defiance and counterculture are often conflated with autonomy which breeds self-limitation and elitism in identity politics. [see: To be Feminine beyond Rebellion].
I support trans-stealthing AKA non-self-disclosure of being trans, insofar as it is the safe option for the trans person. I support using any bathroom one deems safer, regardless of “passing”.
