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Calypso royalty right here! Ms. Calypso Rose, the Queen of Calypso

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set a calendar alert RIGHT NOW. this is the work we need to do moving into 2018. we need to be READY.

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Indigenous Women Rise sing warrior song

#IndigenousWomenRise bloc singing warrior song before the #WomensMarch in DC.

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I heard this music and didn’t know where it was. I knew it must be indigenous women & loved knowing they were there! If anyone should be able to deport people, it’s you. Deport that orange man!!! Love for my indigenous sisters out there!!!

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By artist Shepard Fairey (who made the iconic Obama “Hope” poster).

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Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi

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I cried at this part

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Don’t ever forget that Arden Cho did THAT.

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I love this campaign. All members of the LGBT community deserve to feel safe and that includes senior citizens

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This is beyond amazing.

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When I go to contemporary Asian restaurants, like Wolfgang Puck’s now-shuttered 20.21 in Minneapolis and Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Spice Market in New York City, it seems the entrées are always in the $16–$35 range and the only identifiable person of color in the kitchen is the dishwasher. The menus usually include little blurbs about how the chefs used to backpack in the steaming jungles of the Far East (undoubtedly stuffing all the herbs and spices they could fit into said backpacks along the way, for research purposes), and were so inspired by the smiling faces of the very generous natives—of which there are plenty of tasteful black-and-white photos on the walls, by the way—and the hospitality, oh, the hospitality, that they decided the best way to really crystallize that life-changing experience was to go back home and sterilize the cuisine they experienced by putting some microcilantro on that $20 curry to really make it worthy of the everyday American sophisticate. American chefs like to talk fancy talk about “elevating” or “refining” third-world cuisines, a rhetoric that brings to mind the mission civilisatrice that Europe took on to justify violent takeovers of those same cuisines’ countries of origin. In their publicity materials, Spice Market uses explicitly objectifying language to describe the culture they’re appropriating: “A timeless paean to Southeast Asian sensuality, Spice Market titillates Manhattan’s Meatpacking District with Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s piquant elevations of the region’s street cuisine.” The positioning of Western aesthetics as superior, or higher, than all the rest is, at its bottom line, an expression of the idea that no culture has value unless it has been “improved” by the Western Midas touch. If a dish hasn’t been eaten or reimagined by a white person, does it really exist? Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods, often claims that to know a culture, you must eat their food. I’ve eaten Vietnamese food my whole life, but there’s still so much that I don’t understand about my family and the place we came from. I don’t know why we can be so reticent, yet so emotional; why Catholicism, the invaders’ religion, still has such a hold on them; why we laugh so hard even at times when there’s not much to laugh about. After endless plates of com bi, banh xeo, and cha gio, I still don’t know what my grandmother thinks about when she prays.

Soleil Ho, “Craving the Other” (via cmao)

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CAREFREE

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You are beautiful and perfect all by yourself, okay?

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You are beautiful :))

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#LimitlessAfricans: 4 Queer African Women (pt. ½)

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Photography by @mikaelowunna (IG) Headwraps by @wrapsbyjames (IG)

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Name: Mai'Yah Country of Origin: Liberia Age: 18 Pronouns: she/ her They/ Them How do you identify in terms of your LGBTQ Identity: Queer Instagram: @mai.yah Tumblr: @Dwelah

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Name : Badu Country: Born and raised nyc African background: Ivory Coast Age:20 Pronouns: she, her Identity: pansexual, androgynous Instagram: @baduizm_adu Tumblr: @needstoescape

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Name: Yéwándé (Yéwá for short) Country of Origin: Nigeria (USA-born) Age: 18 Pronouns: she/her, they/them How do you identify in terms of your LGBTQ Identity: Queer Instagram: @therealyewande Tumblr: @blkpoetress-ye

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Name: Amadi Country of Origin: Nigeria (Born in the US) Age: 18 Pronouns: she/her Identity: genderqueer-queer- androgynous Instagram: @kidandfro Snapchat: @kidandfro

About Limit(less): Limit(less) is a photography project by Mikael Owunna documenting the fashion and style of LGBTQ African Immigrants (1st and 2nd generation) in diaspora in North America and Europe. The project seeks to visually deconstruct the colonial binary which states that one cannot be both LGBTQ and African. #LimitlessAfricans

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one of the most fun shoots of my life

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2017 Awesomely Asian YA Books

As all book lovers who thrive on social media or anywhere on the internet, there’s always new books to look forward to, whether they’re a few weeks away, or even a year. While there are dozens of exciting new books to look forward to in the coming year of 2017, I wanted to feature the following books that should be on your radar when it comes to Asian YA.

Note: This list chooses to focus on books that both feature Asian MCs and Asian authors, whether they’re #ownvoices or not, although the majority of the books listed here are #ownvoices. Those that are not #ownvoices or I am unsure about have been indicated with an asterisk. I tried to make it as comprehensive as possible, and if any titles are missing that fit the above qualifications or I made any errors, please let me know as soon as possible!

East Asia

Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist #1) by Renee Ahdieh*

Dove Alight (Dove Chronicles #3) by Karen Bao

Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Along the Indigo by Elsie Chapman

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco*

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Forest #1) by Julie C. Dao*

I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo

Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before #3) by Jenny Han

The Ship Beyond Time (The Girl from Everywhere #2) by Heidi Heilig

A Place I Belong by Cynthia Kadohata

The November Girl by Lydia Kang

The Crystal Ribbon by Celeste Lim

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu

Weaving a Net is Better Than Praying for Fish by Ki-Wing Merlin

The Amaterasu Project by Axie Oh

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh

Want by Cindy Pon

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura

The Takedown by Corrie Wang

Secrets & Sequences (Secret Coders #3) by Gene Luen Yang

Kokoro (Kojiki #2) by Keith Yatsuhashi

The Emperor’s Riddle by Kat Zhang

South-East Asia

Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza

Girl in Between by Pintip Dunn

Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

Not Your Villain (Not Your Sidekick #2) by C.B. Lee

South Asia

Saints, Misfits, Monsters, and Mayhem by S.K. Ali

Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani

A Crown of Wishes (The Star-Touched Queen #2) by Roshani Chokshi

Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski

That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Karim

Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan

The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Soulmated (Joining of Souls #1) by Shaila Patel

The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi

This Promise I Will Keep by Aisha Saeed

My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma

West Asia

The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian

Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai

I hope you found some new books to add to your TBR and are excited about the upcoming releases! I, for one, cannot wait to pick these books up and am patiently counting down the days until I get a chance to read them. Stay tuned for the part 2: the non-YA edition for 2017 books, coming soon.

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