tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552505783675540942024-03-08T03:33:03.885-08:00Mellow YellowBamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319772334781258485noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-13792239087177321012021-03-20T13:17:00.007-07:002021-03-21T15:02:22.348-07:00Transnational Asian grief and white supremacist patriarchal violenceContent warning: white men’s violence, anti-Asian misogynist racial violence, murder, whorephobia, police harassmentArt by @fufighterartsIt was only one day after March 15th, commemorating 2 years after the white supremacist shooting of Muslims in Christchurch that killed 51 people. March 16th, in Atlanta, another white man with a gun targets Asian massage parlours killing 8 people, 6 of whom Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-64067972650262134672019-06-18T15:32:00.003-07:002019-06-18T15:44:56.973-07:00Matariki community kai will bring together tangata whenua, Pasifika, migrants and refugees
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Press ReleaseMatariki community kai will bring together tangata whenua, Pasifika, migrants and refugees SOUL Solidarity Pōneke are inviting Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-33131854261446989842018-06-16T02:09:00.002-07:002018-06-16T17:02:58.175-07:00Suffrage and settler colonialism: a tauiwi Chinese feminist perspective
This year is the 125th anniversary of New Zealand achieving women’s suffrage, celebrations and events are happening around the country to commemorate this progress in women’s rights. “We are the first country in the world to give women the vote” is a statement that gets repeated to elicit a sense of national pride, to provide evidence of how progressive New Zealand is as a nation, ahead of Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-13318140177822635312018-04-11T01:32:00.000-07:002018-04-11T01:39:33.550-07:00Not just about inclusion: the white and liberal feminist co-option of intersectionality
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In recent years, the popularisation and semi-mainstreaming of the concept of “intersectionality” in Aotearoa feminist movements has given opportunities for Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-54780312444586955252017-06-30T17:06:00.001-07:002017-06-30T17:06:28.718-07:00Callout for Contributions to Mellow Yellow #8
Established in 2005, the first issue of the Mellow Yellow zine was first created over a decade ago aiming to explore what it meant to be Chinese living on colonised land. In conjunction with the upcoming Auckland Zinefest 2017, which will take place on the 30th of July, we have decided to release issue #8 of the zine and are searching for contributions both locally and internationally.
Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-34147878551739928702016-09-29T22:10:00.001-07:002016-10-23T21:07:29.532-07:00We solemnly swear, Hobson’s Pledge is up to no good
Open letter from Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga to Don Brash
Hey Don Brash, we remember your Orewa speech, trying to make it like “we are all New Zealanders now.” We remember how you used us migrants for your colonial agenda to whitewash differences and give legitimacy to your anti-Māori racism. You don’t get to talk about Māori privilege or favouritism under a system we can all so Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319772334781258485noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-85757810412580332432016-05-20T21:55:00.003-07:002016-05-20T21:55:57.312-07:00they said, don't go chasing waterfalls
Sometimes struggling not to be pushed down requires so much effort that it's easier to let yourself sink down. It's not a place of forward motion but at least you get to take a moment from your mental and emotional muscles working overtime. Eventually though, you're going to need to get back up to the surface for breath. You can't survive if you stay under water too long.
I know that Chả lụahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08720045266208891122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-70993257431876275672016-04-12T17:48:00.000-07:002016-04-13T04:19:02.443-07:00Guest blog: Model minority and race relations: thoughts on the Asian students' assaults
By Alex Li
As a former international student, and now someone who does research on Chinese youth in Aotearoa/New Zealand, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be Asian or Chinese in New Zealand from a race perspective, more so after the attacks. As I was talking to some students for my PhD project in the last couple of years, l realised some things have changed for Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-3291659879391067722016-03-10T15:05:00.000-08:002016-03-10T15:21:53.811-08:00 Kim Kardashian - Virgin Or Whore? How White Feminism Is Still Obsessed Over Outdated DilemmasI've noticed that the most prominent critics of Kim Kardashian's latest stunt have been white upper-class women who believed they were speaking against her actions in the name of feminism. Just Google 'celebrities react to Kim Kardashian nudes' and you'll see what I mean.
All the wisecracking and undermining comments coming from these rich white people goes to show that even if you're a rich Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-17341256123754808742015-07-19T19:23:00.003-07:002015-07-19T19:23:42.810-07:00When Brown Voices Collide: a Malay-Javanese woman's perspective on West PapuaThis article was first 'published' as a personal "Note" on the my personal Facebook account last month. I tried to get feedback from New Zealand based activists and Leftwing/radical bloggers on appropriate platforms for which it can be shared but it seemed to gain little response aside from the empathetic "likes" of my post. I realise also since then, that this article exposed myself as a batikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729920198994438813noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-53107508796885671422015-06-28T06:34:00.001-07:002015-06-28T06:40:43.854-07:00My decolonized revolution will be spiritually connective and nothing else.
I started getting involved in activism at the age of 16 but my consciousness of injustice, oppression and unfairness started early. At the age of 3, I learnt to shoplift, stealing my first candybar facilitated by my grandmother. At the age of 5 I understood what domestic violence looked like behind closed doors, witnessing the fights between my grandparents and my parents, between my father and batikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729920198994438813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-36470952406740962692015-01-19T19:26:00.004-08:002015-01-20T00:52:03.945-08:00My relationship with poetry.When I was younger living in Singapura, I had to lie to my parents about a lot of things. Like "going to the library" could mean, going on a date with a boy. Or going to watch a N16 movie with some friends. Or going to an all-ages punk gig on a Saturday that starts around 3pm and ends around 7pm. Sometimes I really was at the library. Reading books that I should not be reading. Writing things I batikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729920198994438813noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-33553244879264848592014-11-28T11:46:00.001-08:002014-11-28T12:43:32.472-08:00Mellow Yellow 6Excerpts from Mellow Yellow 6
Assimilation
"In moving between these situations and societies, I've navigated different types of adaptation and assimilation: assimilation out of respect for local culture and practices, adaptation in order to be understood (eg. learning the language and colloquialisms, also trying to pick up the local non-verbal cues and social norms) and to Dumplinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00954097160451480628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-58225318774272948472014-10-14T14:32:00.000-07:002014-10-14T14:32:36.774-07:00Sticks and stones are much quicker than words
Trigger/Content warning:
physical violence, family violence, ponderings on survivor identity.
When
I was at High School, I thought that us Asians got hit with bamboo
canes, the Maori and Polynesian kids got hit with electric jug cords
and broken chair legs, and the white kids got grounded and Time Out.
I thought this was just a cultural thing. Different ethnic groups
choice of child Dumplinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00954097160451480628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-65321365302360672122014-09-22T00:08:00.001-07:002014-09-22T00:09:36.581-07:00#UptheAnti: social movements and strategies for smashing oppressionI wrote this earlier this year after some intergenerational political conversations with folks who were involved in feminist movements in the 70s and 80s, but it seems urgent now more than ever with the election results:
At a time when ecologies are on the brink of collapse and more attacks are planned on the soil and the sea, poisoning and polluting the planet; when structural violence means Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-89200825253392826312014-07-26T04:11:00.003-07:002014-07-26T17:22:31.290-07:00I am an indigenous person but I will never call myself Palestinian.
Today was indeed a politically hectic day in Aoteaora New Zealand, especially if you are an activist that cares about both human and non-human animal rights. Protest actions were organised to demand an end to factory farming from about noon, and then the second surge of rallies to highlight the continued injustice and massacre of Palestinians in Gaza right after. It was emotionally, physically batikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729920198994438813noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-75967168428022110762013-12-27T13:43:00.001-08:002014-07-27T03:17:02.849-07:00Disbanding Melting Pot Massacre: Some reflections on being in an Asian feminist punk band
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@Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-19526073564149361932013-10-07T12:44:00.002-07:002013-10-19T02:38:31.085-07:00Never Forget: October 15th Solidarity Tour
Share and invite (AKL event)!
Share and invite (WLG event)!
On Monday, October 15th 2007, more than 300 police carried out dawn
raids on dozens of houses all over Aotearoa / New Zealand as part of
‘Operation 8′. Police claimed the raids were in response to ‘concrete
terrorist threats’ from Māori activists. What initially started with 20
defendants resulted in the trial of four – Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319772334781258485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-53267178695123628122013-08-08T18:39:00.000-07:002013-08-08T20:37:36.764-07:00Tau iwi People of Colour Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Talk at the “Against Racism: Tino Rangatiratanga, The University,
Our Future?” forum
For a while now, some of
us part of Young Asian Feminists Aotearoa have been having discussions about
decolonization what it means for us as Asians and tau iwi people of colour to
be living on stolen land. If you’ve seen that banner “Asians Supporting Tino
Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319772334781258485noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-85914348854556063952013-05-04T03:30:00.000-07:002013-05-04T03:30:00.332-07:00Conflicting loyalties: challenging white orientalism and homophobia in diasporic communitiesFor a long time now, I've thought a lot about the issues with talking about the oppressive stuff in my family and culture in a white-dominated context that constructs non-western cultures as more oppressive, inferior and generally more backward or authoritarian. Having worked with young women from Asian, Middle Eastern and African backgrounds coming out of family violence situations, there's Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635346238868121149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-40024439556283338722013-04-23T03:55:00.001-07:002013-04-23T03:55:11.361-07:00CONVERSATION ON COLOUR SHAME (AS AN ASIAN FEMME)Hey all, I wrote the below in response to someone asking me to write about an aspect of my journey to anti-racist work... hope there is some value to you in reading this. Thanks heaps :-)
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mso-font-signatureAnna Vohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16966494866094444676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-75607937648761542002013-02-05T14:18:00.001-08:002013-02-05T14:18:24.742-08:00A Slice of Waitangi
One
of the reasons Leeland moved away was because of the ghosts. Pakeha
ghosts to be precise. Less pakeha, less ghosts – went the plan.
White
seduction, golden maps and hemisphere migration had sacrificed his
ancestral tongue. He got an English one instead – complete with
Kiwi twang and mumble. It had served him well. It also meant pakeha
ghosts took a liking to him. Leeland often dumplinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07208725099893234795noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-61644185171929215912013-01-10T18:29:00.001-08:002013-01-10T18:29:54.045-08:00#J11 Migrants in solidarity with Idle No More
On this global day of action in solidarity with Idle No More, members of Young Asian Feminist Aotearoa (YAFA) went inside the
Canadian Consulate and Trade Office in Tamaki-Makau-rau (Auckland) to demonstrate our
support for indigenous rights everywhere.
Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319772334781258485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-77017172782235343582013-01-09T11:10:00.002-08:002013-01-09T11:11:24.236-08:00RISE AGAINST RAPE CULTURE: A Silent Protest in Solidarity with Women's Struggle in IndiaA woman in Delhi was
brutally raped and beaten ON A BUS. The woman has just died as a result
of her injuries. There is a lot to this story so do check out the links
below. Today the world finally learns of her name - RIP Jyoti Singh Pandey.
In light of her story as well as the many unnamed unsung women victims
there, here and worldwide, a group of young Asian women with the support
of Bamboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319772334781258485noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155250578367554094.post-69694599247838870372012-08-23T05:06:00.001-07:002012-08-25T05:10:21.624-07:00Whoa whoa waitaminute... who's the decolonizer here?So I was at the UNHQ last month as part of the representative delegation of NZ women's NGOs at CEDAW, and had a chance to catch up with a friend who works at the UN. We were catching up on lots of things an hour lunch can afford; so obviously, we went straight to the political situation in NZ including the emergent wave of radical activisms gaining momentum with Occupy, Blockade the Budget, batikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729920198994438813noreply@blogger.com6