For displaced #BIPOC folks who had to flee their homelands, as kids & had resettled as refugees under asylum, into Global North regions, only.

When was the first time you experienced #racism - after being displaced from your homelands & starting over in a Global North place?

#poll #AsianMastodon #POC #refugees #immigrants #globalization #Displacement #ForcedMigration #WarRefugees #ClimateRefugees #geopolitics #TootSEA

Tens of thousands of people have crossed into #Burundi to escape violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the #Congo. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports from a displacement camp in Busuma, now home to many of those #refugees.

https://youtube.com/shorts/CTViP2KW54I

#GlobalSouth #DRCongo #Africa #Displacement #WarRefugees #Busuma

Me & the Kotts at Famaso pizzeria for a PhD documentary film production wrap party in 2015.
I'm friends with half of their #Czech family. I met the Kotts on a feature comedy film production in 2012. They hired me as their production manager, art director & crew supervisor for their documentary film project that we shot at UVIC campus.

The Kotts are also fellow #WarRefugees. They lived in #Yugoslavia before the collapse. They fled, while Aja was pregnant. They were turned away by several countries & their journey from Yugoslavia to Canada is an epic real life experience.

Their daughter, Tyna, is a friend. I got her hired as a wardrobe stylist on film production, years back. She's an international model. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tynakottova

#FlashbackFriday #FilmCrew #Director #ExecutiveProducer #ProductionManager #FilmWrapParty #YYJFilm #DocumentaryFilmmakers #monochrome #BWphoto

I'm going to do a full context video report tomorrow because it's important for other #Canadians to know how the #GovernmentOfCanada has tried to bully my Mom since even before #BCNDP #BCgovernment #FailuresToProtect citizens with #covid.

This is now the 3rd time that federal government has severely fucked up & demanded my Mom - who has been fucking retired early since Summer of 2020 - to pay them back funds she's eligible for. First time they fucked up was in 2022 & it took 9 months for feds to admit they fucked up & they had to send Mom retroactive payments while we were planning Dad's funeral. 2nd time they fucked up was 1 year after & they stopped her OAS payments & also threatened her with stopping all federal benefits that she earned from working her entire life after coming to Canada as a war refugee in November 1980.
It took over 11 months for feds to stop threatening my family for yet another one of their admin fuck ups. Their big fuck ups end up putting more traumas on our backs. Yes - we are fucking ANGRY.

#KKKanada #WarRefugees #NotFreeloaders #AntiRacism #RefugeesAsylum #CdnPoli #BCpoli #RacistCanada #GovernmentFailures #SystematicRacism #Bigotry #CanadaFails #Racism

Monday, October 20, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/monday-october-20-2025/

In the taxi, talking about #decolonization

#AsianMastodon #WarSurvivorsForPeace #WhereDoIGoBackTo #StopTryingToKillUs #GlobalSouth #SouthEastAsia #AsianDiaspora #WarRefugees #Decolonization #AntiRacism

Public #libraries’ role in supporting Ukrainian #refugees: A focus on #Hungary and #Poland

https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006241259490

#PublicLibraries #UkraineWar #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #WarRefugees

This video resonates with me & my family a lot. However, our family's experience as #Teochew #WarRefugees, leaving Saigon, was a lot more nightmarish & much more violent than this Mom's experience. One of my Aunties had joined the Vietcong as a medic & communications officer, after quitting her job as an ICU nurse & lived in tunnels for several years. We also had no family or friends who were already living in North America so trying to integrate into life here was more challenging.

I can understand everything they say in Teochew. There's only a few words they say differently than we do - I'll do a video with my Mom soon to point out the differences. They speak a form of Teochew #diaspora in Vietnam, that most of us #Gaginang refer to as #Vietnam villagers Teochew. We speak the Teochew that #Saigon gaginang used since early #displacement from #China years back(a long, long time ago).

https://youtu.be/GymTavOd2vU?si=4rtnL-P01O5xTSEK

#AsianMastodon #OurPeoples #AsianLanguages #Chinese #linguistics #DisctinctLanguage #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA #SouthEastAsian #languages #POCvoices #WarSurvivors #DisplacementVoices #SurvivorsOfVietnamWar