having a lot of conflicting feelings about the role of body, the function of sensation, sexuality, and middos--in light of nation, identity, race and lineage.

Rather than deal with it, lets instead enjoy this clip of medley from Dana International.

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have to write this down before i forget the vocab.....

"mgwey" - please/thank you
" ha-piyyu-lieah"- beautiful ( Read more... )

went to a meeting of tg/ts males this evening, the topic was supposedly race and privilege, which would include discussions of passing and discrimination. heard a few anecdotes of poc being harrased, seen as boys of colour in a car or shopping, and you know the story. The white guys spoke about being seen as being younger than they are, not ( Read more... )

Today in the class as a parting gift, the teacher taught us the words to Hatikvah (The Hope) , the national hymn of Israel. This teacher, if she had a stick, would be hitting us, I said to my colleague, to which he replied, she already is. But we both smiled with love for her, and for the task we have committed to ( Read more... )

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kids bullied a sikh kid and cut his hair.

this story rings a lot of bells, so im putting here in my scrap book instaed of just leaving in the friends page where i found it, in the angryasian feed. ( Read more... )