happy lunar new year friends! if you have some extra cash from your angbaos, here are some orgs for sudan, ukraine, and palestine to consider donating to :) love from taiwan and glasgow ❤️
新年快樂!如果過年領完紅包想做點慈善的話,不妨考慮捐給這些援助蘇丹、烏克蘭跟巴勒斯坦的組織
do you think taiwanese people don't realise that the "friendship" the US extends to us is completely self-interested and transactional? do you think we don't feel the indignity of having our existence so tied to the whims of superpowers like the US and china? 1/7
Recently I have been travelling through northern Kurdistan, and have met with Kurdish people from all different kinds of backgrounds. They told countless stories of the current systematic oppression and repression they face – especially from the Turkish state –, as well as a
ukrainians taiwanese
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being accused of "manufacturing consent" for a "new cold war" bc we don't want our countries to be invaded by a neighbouring superpower
viewing taiwanese independence as "US-CIA-backed separatism" rather than taiwanese people's struggle for self determination and decolonisation (from china and the ROC) is an imperialist position, in that you support chinese imperialism and reinforce US imperialism
these queer white western leftists simply don't care about advocating for lgbtq communities outside the western world, especially non-white queer ppl. they instrumentalise us, flatten our histories, ignore our needs and concerns, support the imperialists threatening our existence
talking with pro-palestine people who think ukraine should take russia and the US' fake "peace deal" and talking to pro-ukraine people who think palestine doesn't deserve to exist