#Orientalism

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vogueheroine

Fashion has and continues to empower colonial and postcolonial structures through orientalism and other forms of oppressive methods. A THREAD: *This first caught my attention by a story posted on

Kazumi Chin

kazumiochin

Part of Orientalism is the notion that I, as an Asian person, have a static identity, and therefore produce static identity-based work. And that this work holds the particularly static

key.🥮🐇 #EndSARS

trblforarebel

as much as i enjoy cyberpunk aesthetics, cyberpunk as a whole was built on yellow peril so don’t let the fancy neon buildings and and cool tech fool you this

wydna.kb

KBULTRA0

The motifs of the steppe warrior, the harem, oriental hedonism, derives from much earlier than Robert E Howard, going back at least to the 1786 Gothic novel Vathek by William

Zeyad el Nabolsy (زياد النابلسي)

ZNabolsy

1. Philosophers should care about the sociology of philosophy.2. From the perspective of global intellectual history, the analytic-continental divide is a family squabble between 2 Eurocentric siblings. 3. Hegel is

Kazumi Chin

kazumiochin

Here's my Orientalism thoughts for the day:Orientalism is, first, the belief that you can understand another people in their entirety. That you can write a guidebook to understanding them. Imagine

diaspora sigma

sailor_minh

i muted that thread bc i don't rly care to make it an argument bc it's not. it's an observation bUT since soooo many of u wanna come for me

Gender Neutral Mel Hotel™ ☭

ChaosIsMel

Cyberpunk as a genre has a lot roots in: orientalism, fetishization of asian culture, and weird reductions of different groups. That doesn't make the genre bad or cancelled. it just

Soft Lucas

xuxidimples

the difference between orientalism, middle eastern culture & islam.a thread Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the eastern world. These depictions are commonly seen in hollywood movies,

nazanin

nazaninzar

Using Hezbollah as a scapegoat for all that has hitherto gone wrong in Lebanon is nothing short of confused Orientalism. It discounts the overwhelming problems in the government at large,

Kavaeric

Kavaeric

California is a state with a rich Asian history (and not just that of the Chinese and Japanese!), and seeing CP77 continue to treat East Asians as some kind of

𝐹𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓂𝒶 𝐵𝒶𝓇𝓀𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓁𝓁𝒶

FatimaBarkatula

Do sisters writing about the Emma Barnett female Imams debacle, referring to their fight against ‘patriarchy’ realise that they are saying worse than anything Barnett did. They are literally parroting

Jasmine('s boobs hurt)

Ranting_Trans

Fuck it, thread on orientalism, emasculation, and Asian fetishism for trans women:CW: Racism, sexuality, fetishisation, orientialism(switching from my usual Eleanor gifs because, well, it would be ironic not to) First

Mx Themboposting 🌈⚡

theymerSophie

Part of the latent ableism and transphobia in some cyberpunk stories (not naming any names) is inseperable from the failed anticapitalism (or anti-corporatism) of those same stories in a lot

Alexandra Vukovich

AlexandraVukov1

A short photo on the Mosaics of #HagiaSophia a book of photographs published in 1950 by the Byzantine Institute in limited number to commemorate the uncovering of the Byzantine

Joshua Yang

joshiunn

I am currently in a hotel Quarantine in Taiwan so I'd share my experience. The airport offers 15-day SIMs so that this "repressive regime" sees that you stay in your

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