Except with Asian representation, unfortunately. And women of colour. DC sucks there too, so I guess there’s no winner there.

Actually. Katy Perry, much to my surprise, has that honour. Calvin thing wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for her PR Hiddleswift World Tour. While she hadn’t given Kanye permission to use the word bitch, her Grammy speech literally mentioned “people taking credit for her success” which she again, literally gave…

Not only did she make no effort at hiding who she wrote about, she left clues in her lyric sheets as to the identity of the men she was singing about. This is why I used to get annoyed when she kept saying people talked about her singing about her exes all the time because she was a woman. No, Taylor. You leave clues…

Also me rn :

Me rn :

Uh, lots of Hindu and Catholic honour killings in India.

Nah, born in London, taken back to Sri Lanka and then Chennai until she went back to England

M.I.A is influenced by her tamil roots - she uses tamil tunes, as well as South Indian instruments and progressions. However, you are right in that she often uses Carribean sounds, as well as Brazilian (in Kala, if I recall correctly) - your point is a lot more clearer here. I do think you’re criticism of this is kind…

She IS first generation. She learnt english proper after coming to London. I don’t really get the relation between the Sri Lankan civil war (which is based on linguistic and xenophobic tensions) and the Somalian Civil War - even if there is, which class of Somalian immigrants are you talking about particularly?

But M.I.A is first gen. too?? She lived in Sri Lanka and Chennai until she was seven or eight, if I recall correctly. Your point might still be valid, but this is a different scenario from the 2nd gen West African/Carribean diaspora in first world countries and the kind of culture they occupy, and sometimes create a…

I saw a bunch of weirdly racist tweets against Asians yesterday, when they thought the officer was Asian (there were also calls to acknowledge racism in the Asian community, but there was a lot of racism too) - and it’s just...idk.

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lol Sita is the Jennifer of Indian names, you can’t escape us.

I’m not on twitter anymore, unfortunately. I tweet political stuff often, and a few months ago I started receiving reaaallly abusive, vile racist (and rapist) tweets and DMS because of something I tweeted, but twitter refused to do anything about it, so I had to delete it.

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I stopped posting after the Great Gawker Purge and then I lost my burner password. I MISSED YOU SO VERY MUCH.

I think so???

Ah, another gem of the “Western White People Travelling To Third World Countries And How The Tragedies Of Said Country Helped Them Discover Themselves” genre.

How the hell is it an “international story” when its context is LITERALLY SPECIFIC TO POST WW2 JAPAN, YOU IDIOT