Ms. Que BanhI'd like to open up public discussions on how almost all of us diaspora POC women were taught how to survive by our Moms/women guardians. We weren't taught a lot about how we are very valuable, as women. We weren't taught how to value ourselves because most of us #POCWomen were taught how to survive & learn to thrive under global patriarchal BS.
It's no surprise that many of us ended up in multiple abusive relationships, because we weren't taught how to put our own self worth above mere survival. Our Moms often lived through generations of that kind of survival first, parenting. Our parents never received it & can't teach what they've never learned. We need to start teaching self worth to a lot more little kids, all across the world!
@richpuchalsky I blocked a local white saviour woman here, last year, for being a 'Karen' about me/Mom using cardboard to mulch/kill off unwanted weeds/suffocate unwanted lawn grass. She was trying to tell me that all my efforts are killing the environment & telling me to use shit that most poor folks can't afford to buy in large quantities. I informed her that I've worked on multiple small farms that also use cardboard mulching methods because they also can't afford to buy a bunch of shit to deal with larger acreages where there's too many unwanted weeds/old lawn grass. She said, they're all destroying the environment too by using cardboard 🤡 White saviour types like her are condescending as fuck towards POC & small farmers, in general.
STFU, sit the fuck down. Unless you're offering to buy us all the shit you think we should be using - recognize that you have more privileges than most of us who have been doing food security, rewilding & Indigenous planting for decades - without spending a ton of money that we don't have to spend.
#AsianMastodon #POCGardeners #Decolonization #ShutUpKaren #FrugalGardening #POCVoices #WhitePrivilege
Metis Nation of Greater Victoria invites you to join for the annual Knowledge Keepers Gathering! This is an event where we highlight and showcase Metis knowledge from academic researchers, Metis-focused research, to cultural knowledge holders, storytellers, artists, musicians and dancers.
This event is free, for anyone and everyone to attend, and there is no registration required.
*I'll update with more detailed info, closer to event date. A few things are still being worked out.*
#Indigenous #VictoriaBC #BCIndigenous #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEvent #CommunityConnecting #CulturalConnecting #Metis #KnowledgeKeepers #Lekwungen #Xwespsm #Wsanec #YYJEvents #FreeEvent #CulturalWisdom #CulturalSharing #POCVoices #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FirstPeoples #MetisCulture #CulturalArts #CulturalDance #CulturalMusic #IndigenousStorytellers
What Empire Cannot Erase
#Persian #Poetry and #Civilization.
https://we.scienceandnonduality.com/offers/D2fdqgqo/checkout
April 19, 2026 • 10:00 – 11:30am PDT (find your local time)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82963653279?pwd=7G6aM3thTc2VDjMn8NIApFObMcgbTZ.1
We are watching, once again, what empire does: not only to bodies, but to the long memory of a people; to the libraries and sacred sites; to art, language, and the ruins that hold the oldest threads of human spiritual inquiry.
We are thinking of the civilization that gave us Rumi, Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Forough Farrokhzad — mystics and rebels and lovers of paradox who understood something about the human soul that we are still, centuries later, trying to catch up to.
This gathering is an invitation to come together: to read poetry aloud, to hear from #Iranian voices, to sit with grief and beauty together rather than alone.
We will work with #political and #moral vocabulary shaped by Iranian thinkers such as Ali Shariati, who wrote against domination, spiritual emptiness, and the violence of imposed power.
We will make space for what doesn’t fit into headlines or talking points—the complexity of empire, the difference between a government and its people, the #authoritarian forces at work not only abroad but here at home. We also gather with the political inheritance of those who taught generations to resist domination and spiritual emptiness, including Ali Shariati.
Watch Omid’s #TeachIn on “What you need to know about Iran”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZrnBY2wWc
#Educational #Iran #MiddleEast #POCVoices #IranianDiaspora #IranianVoices #LearnMore #Cultural #EthnicCommunities #GlobalSouth #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #Oppression #Freedom #Imperialism #Colonialism #Humanities #SocialScience #CulturalIdentity #geopolitics #Globalization #ForeignPolicy #ForeignAffairs #Sovereignty
You can't play a race card on me either, when you choose to personal side with bigots with a proven bad track record for bigotry. GTFO with that crap with me.
#SitWithBigots #Enablers #Ableists #POCVoices #DecolonizeYourMind #Misogynists
You can be #antiracist & still not be OK with #whitewashed #POC who choose to work for #government & are #Zionazis.
If I based everything on race alone - I'd never have confronted Asian sellout politicians nor chose to go no contact with several whitewashed, capitalist jerks in my own family.
Only fools will keep volunteering to defend any politician.
#AsianMastodon #POCVoices #politics #FuckTheWhitewashed #DecolonizeYourMind
White folks who try to say POC are mentally unwell when we stand up for ourselves are one of the first to be fucking nuked. They pull this shit a lot. It's super predictable, after we call their asses out in public.
You're the mentally unwell ones who lack fucking empathy for POC who have dealt with far too much unnecessary racial violence from your shithead white friends. You're the ones truly fucked in the head.
#AsianMastodon #POCVoices #WhitePrivilegeScript #Predictable #WhiteCowardice #WhiteWeakness #FuckYourCowardice
Take your #whitewashing BS - to a fucking laundromat. Those laundromat machines will care more about your BS white hurt feelings than I ever would.
Part of my thread that's coming later this week will also discuss how being treated like shit/being disbelieved here (after getting swatted by a pathological liar who owns a huge Canadian instance, with a lot of ignorant supporters who seem unaware or don't care that their guy swatted me) - severely triggered my PTSD on being disbelieved when I tried reporting being SAed as a teen. I was bullied & ostracized for trying to report SA. People believed the rapist & not me. It brought up the same angry, disappointed & people are fucked feelings.
I had almost left Mastodon completely, due to that.
The Epstein Files triggered both of those hella horrible life memories, again. I'd never been swatted before Chad Ohman chose to send that racial violence to my home, shortly after my Dad died. That night was full of unnecessary police traumas too. I'm sick of people pretending to care & I find out they don't, when shit hits the fan.
I don't need fake support. I don't need cowardly folks. That shit ends up hurting me in the long run. I don't need any fucking devil's advocates either. Go hang out with Satan.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #Trauma #PTSD #MstdnCA #DecolonizeYourMind #Swatting #RacialViolence #Bullying #Canadian #Misogyny #DevilsAdvocate
Later this week.
I'll talk about my feelings about how most folks are socially conditioned to quickly judge loud, angry POC women but not conditioned to understand why a lot of us are done with being mistreated/disbelieved/treated lesser than because we don't stay calm/polite when we experience ongoing abuses & rarely are supported during our worst experiences. Most folks (fellow POC are included) are socially conditioned to refrain from judging the polite in public white person, who abuses their white privilege & stays calm, after being shady & abusive.
All of this shitass, social programming is fucking ass backwards. It sets up a perpetual system of putting polite talking, calm, perpetrators, over not polite talking, not calm, victims.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #DecolonizeYourMind