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fromonesurvivortoanother: sequin-stuffed: drvy: “Me love you long time” came into prominence with Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” (from 1987) as a Vietnamese prostitute tries to pick up Matthew Modine’s character with broken English. The phrase was then popularly picked up by 2 Live Crew in the song “Me So Horny.” “It’s so many different kinds of slurs in one,” comedian Margaret Cho said. “It’s instantly putting you in the position of being a foreigner, an outsider and a sexual stereotype. It’s an all-in-one combo.” ~naturallaw for yahoo questions The popularization by Mariah Carey’s ‘Love You Long Time,’ Fergie’s ‘London Bridge,’ and Nicki Minaj’s ““Muahhhh me love you long time like I’m asian” demonstrates how this exotification of Asian/A.American women is constantly recycled in the media, perpetuated by celebrities to obtain the hyper-sexualized image needed to make it big, especially if you ain’t got the talent. I would get started on Nicki’s whole hyper-sexualized, Japanese dolled up shit, but racialious says it best. Well researched: here http://www.racialicious.com/2010/11/01/the-orientalism-of-nicki-minaj/ You can degrade yourself, but no, my sisters and I will NOT love you long time. Yes for the commentary. i absolutely HATE hearing this slur

fromonesurvivortoanother:

sequin-stuffed:

drvy:

“Me love you long time” came into prominence with Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” (from 1987) as a Vietnamese prostitute tries to pick up Matthew Modine’s character with broken English. The phrase was then popularly picked up by 2 Live Crew in the song “Me So Horny.”

“It’s so many different kinds of slurs in one,” comedian Margaret Cho said. “It’s instantly putting you in the position of being a foreigner, an outsider and a sexual stereotype. It’s an all-in-one combo.”

~naturallaw for yahoo questions

The popularization by Mariah Carey’s ‘Love You Long Time,’ Fergie’s ‘London Bridge,’ and Nicki Minaj’s ““Muahhhh me love you long time like I’m asian” demonstrates how this exotification of Asian/A.American women is constantly recycled in the media, perpetuated by celebrities to obtain the hyper-sexualized image needed to make it big, especially if you ain’t got the talent.

I would get started on Nicki’s whole hyper-sexualized, Japanese dolled up shit, but racialious says it best. Well researched: here http://www.racialicious.com/2010/11/01/the-orientalism-of-nicki-minaj/

You can degrade yourself, but no, my sisters and I will NOT love you long time.

Yes for the commentary.

i absolutely HATE hearing this slur

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Filed under racism Asian Asian American feminism womanism feminist womanist Asian women stereotypes racial slur

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I didn’t know how to read Chinese characters, so I made it up as I went along. “That one says dickbag, and the one your arm says I farted,” I told them. I licked sugar from my spiky hair, told a girl that if she made fun of my last name one more time that I was going to “slam your head into this wall, and I’m not bluffing, BITCH.” I had no idea where it was all coming from. All I knew was that I had suddenly swung from one extreme to the other—from obsessively trying to cover up my “otherness” to obsessively flaunting it every chance I had.
Jenny Zhang, “Other Girls,” Rookie magazine

Filed under racism woc women of color feminism womanism feminist womanist

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brosephstalin: The impact of economic issues on working women and their families will be the theme of a public hearing.  Sponsored by the D.C. Worker’s Rights Board*, composed of city,religious,community, and academic leaders. The hearing will feature testimony from workers, community groups, unions, researchers and others.  Recommendations based on the testimony will be submitted to city officials for action.  The hearing will be held at 6:30pm, May 3rd, at the Bethlehem Baptist Church, 2458 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. SE, Washington, DC. From DC Jobs with Justice

brosephstalin:

The impact of economic issues on working women and their families will be the theme of a public hearing.  Sponsored by the D.C. Worker’s Rights Board*, composed of city,religious,community, and academic leaders. The hearing will feature testimony from workers, community groups, unions, researchers and others.  Recommendations based on the testimony will be submitted to city officials for action.  The hearing will be held at 6:30pm, May 3rd, at the Bethlehem Baptist Church, 2458 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. SE, Washington, DC.

From DC Jobs with Justice

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Filed under Washington DC DC women feminsim feminist womanism womanist working women workforce

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so-treu: inspirationcocoa: I’m reblogging this photo because I just read this article about how people should subscribe to HBO so GIrls will stay on the air and we will have more shows about women written by women and here is my response:  I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and it seems like every time they say, “yay for women-helmed shows!” They mean white women. I don’t see Jez or really anyone talking about how we should all support Scandal because it’s written by a Black woman, starring a Black woman and based on a real political strategist who is also a Black woman. That’s f*cking groundbreaking. And it is.  you mean black women are WOMEN??????????????????

so-treu:

inspirationcocoa:

I’m reblogging this photo because I just read this article about how people should subscribe to HBO so GIrls will stay on the air and we will have more shows about women written by women and here is my response: 

I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and it seems like every time they say, “yay for women-helmed shows!” They mean white women. I don’t see Jez or really anyone talking about how we should all support Scandal because it’s written by a Black woman, starring a Black woman and based on a real political strategist who is also a Black woman. That’s f*cking groundbreaking.

And it is. 

you mean black women are WOMEN??????????????????

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Filed under feminism feminist women Black women women of color womanism womanist woc poc television Hollywood racism Shonda Rhimes Kerry Washington Judy Smith Scandal

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golden-zephyr:

Strong, educated Roma Women 

Top Left - Bottom Right: 

Alina Serban, Petra Gelbart, Livia Jaroka, Esmeralda Romanez, Alina Covaci, and Ostalinda Maya Ovalle.

These women are Lawyers, MEPs, PhD, Human Rights Activists, Philologists, Sociologists…

Who said Roma women can’t be educated and be Roma?

Who said Roma women are prostitutes and baby-makers?

Who said Roma women are as dark and poor as the dirt?

These women give me hope.

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Filed under Roma women feminism feminist