Asian Women Blog Carnival 2, submissions

[oyceter]

The completely optional theme for the 2nd Asian Women Blog Carnival is....

Inter/intra/transnationality

I particularly want to encourage Central and Near Asian women to post, and to also note that I'd love as many Asian women's voices as possible, for all definitions of "Asian" and of "women."

The theme came from some noodling here and here, and I really apologize for the title! I figure it is probably pithier than "hyphenates and sourcelanders and diasporas and being a minority Asian in a majority Asian country and majority Asian countries and minority Asian countries and third culture kids and thoughts about being refugees, immigrants, expats, nth generation, FOBs*, about generational gaps and cultural expectations and growing up in one place and then another and speaking one language at home and one outside and and and."

Submissions due 1 June your local time, and the issue will go up a few days after.

ETA: Future hosts still needed! Please contact ciderpress if you'd like to host.


* I use this as someone who is proud to be a FOB and dislikes any mockery of fobbishness. Also, if you aren't one, don't use it.

Comments

[yeloson]

Here's a word I use for all of that (not specific to asians but):

Diasporado.

:)

[oyceter]

Hee, I like that. I guess I just worry that people who are born and raised in an Asian country won't think of themselves as diasporan, and I want to include them as well.

[ciderpress]

YAY! Thank you so much for hosting!

I'm really looking forward to reading people's thoughts about the theme. \o/

[oyceter]

YAY! I am so happy about the theme!

Hopefully this time I will even be able to write something, ahaha.

[dhobikikutti]

Hee. My hyphenates v. sourcelanders vocabulary makes it to the blogosphere!

I will do that seminar post I threatened for the carnival.

Thanks for hosting!

[oyceter]

Awesome! I really like those terms!

Also yeeesss seminar post yay!

[bravecows]

I love the hyphenates vs. sourcelanders terminology because being hyphenate makes me feel like a robot! And sourcelanders are like something from a high fantasy novel. <3

[oyceter]

Dude, why aren't there hyphenates and sourcelanders fantasy novels? Or are there ones I just don't know about?

[bravecows]

The majority of fantasy novels in English are written by white people who are sourcelanders, so they wouldn't've had to think about it? A fantasy novel about hyphenates and sourcelanders would be super super interesting. I must think about this!

[oyceter]

Yeah... the few I can think of right now are the Fire Logic books, although it's less hyphenates because there hasn't been much of a second generation so far, although there are a few. And... I'm not sure. I feel there are several series that deal with immigration a little, but very few that go beyond first generation.

[seekingferret]

Perdido Street Station,/i>? Kinda...? I mean, Mieville deals with some of those issues in the Cactacae community, but it's not what the book is about.

[skywardprodigal]

I like it. I'm a hypenate born to sourcelanders.

[glass_icarus]

Here via ciderpress, and YAY! :D Will see what I can come up with for this round.

[oyceter]

Awesome! I am so looking forward to people's submissions!

[glass_icarus]

well, i have one link so far- on language and appropriation: a story told backward- and will most likely be back with more! :)

[oyceter]

Eeee, thanks so much!

[glass_icarus]

i was going to write something new, but i figured that an older entry would serve better than my procrastinating self this time around. *g* I have no words for this.

[bravecows]

OK, OK, I must write something for this. I feel like it is the subject of my HEART, being expat-immigrant-diaspora-diaspora. *HARD THINKING*

[oyceter]

Yaaaay!

[ardhra]

OMG, I have so much to say about this. I'll try to find the time to write it all down...

[oyceter]

Yaaaaay!

[allangtegek.livejournal.com]

I object! I am referred to as an adjectival, tyvm. *g*

Linking the announcement to my own little corner of LJ, if that's alright?

[oyceter]

Yes, of course linking is all right, and highly appreciated as well! ^_^

[thedeadparrot]

Woohoo! Thanks for hosting it this time around. :)

Also, I'd like to make a couple of submissions: Hyphenation and a remyth, Chopsticks.

[oyceter]

Submissions! Awesomesauce!

Submission

[(Anonymous)]

Restructure just linked here and told me I should submit my post... here it is: <a href="http://www.racialicious.com/2009/05/13/geishas-and-whores/>Geishas and Whores</a>.

Re: Submission

[oyceter]

Thanks so much! I really liked that post when I first saw it, so it's great to have it.

[jhameia.blogspot.com]

I has a post on transplanting (http://jhameia.blogspot.com/2009/05/transplanting-whatre-roots-for.html)! I think. I dunno. I tried, anyway.

[oyceter]

Yaaay, thank you!

[delfinnium]

Can't remember if I'd submitted something like this. it's basically langauge, the fact that I grew up with a disconnect, and can't talk to my grandparents anymore and have to get stories from them in second hand. :| touches on my cousins' being white Bananas in a different way too. Um.

[dichroic]

I's like to submit these two entries from Shuflies. She's an American-born Taiwanese woman living in Taipei with her American husband (who doesn't have Asian ancestry), whose perspectives can be fascinating. These two posts are about Asian fetishes among white men, minding your own business, and the fact that sometimes two people date because they love each other, period. (But that's a gross oversimplification, and her original posts are more nuanced and more interesting.)

[prodigy]

Hi, I'm evilprodigy on LJ and have a Dreamwidth account solely for commenting on DW feed posts that show up on my flist. :D

I have a question as to the Blog Carnival. I'm half-Korean, half-white, and was thinking of making a post either on the personal issues of racism and Orientalism in the complicated relationship between my mother and father as a thing that became more of an issue as I grew up, or on the experience of being disbelieved or considered "inauthentic" by fully white people. But I'm not certain if I'm an appropriate voice in this carnival, being as it's for PoC, and while I self-identify as Korean I would not like to discount the privilege of having a white first and last name and being able to pass in a number of settings.

I'd love to participate, but I don't want to barge in on anything that doesn't and shouldn't include me, basically. :) What's the policy on inbetweeners like me and our experiences with Asianness and racism?

[oyceter]

Thank you for commenting! I know other multiracial people have chosen not to take the POC term out of respect (and I respect their decision), but I wanted to say that I (and pretty much everybody I know) think of multiracial people as fully POC and very much welcome you.

I also wanted to say that I would love to have anything you felt like writing up. I want a multitude of perspectives and voices in the carnival.

Um, in case it wasn't clear enough: YES! Please submit!

[prodigy]

Great! I'm glad to hear, I loved the first one and am really looking forward to this. :)

[jolantru]

Hi, is it possible/okay to submit a short story? My grandmothers were immigrants from China and settled in Singapore..

[oyceter]

Yes, that would be wonderful!

[jolantru]

Thank you. :)

It's called Leaving For Nanyang. I actually wrote this for the foc_u event... but I think the story is also appropriate for the Carnival.

Leaving For Nanyang:
http://jolantru.dreamwidth.org/12630.html

I wrote this in the perspective of my paternal grandmother who told me this story in Hokkien... a dialect/language my generation found hard to converse in.

[phi]

I am now sing-songing in my head "sourcelanders and hyphenates and disasporas, oh my!"

[bravecows]

I did a post! Phew.

What I ask myself

[(Anonymous)]

i'd like to submit an entry over on lj (http://ambientlight.livejournal.com/87829.html#cutid1), with (yet another) singaporean perspective. ^^;

[ardhra]

Hi, I sent you a PM about this but I dunno if you got it.

I have this post up already, which I thought I'd submit for the Carnival. I don't know if you think it's appropriate, though?

I have another post in the works, which may be late (cos I'm working on issues related to the linked post!). Is that ok?

[pennyroyal]

Last-minute entry. Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but feel free to include it if it is. :)

http://pennyroyal.dreamwidth.org/526.html

[ciderpress]

It's kind of all over the place; one day, I will not be like this. Heh.

http://ciderpress.dreamwidth.org/204400.html

[jolantru]

Hope I am not too late.

http://jolantru.dreamwidth.org/14293.html.

So, uhm, I have submitted a short story and an essay (very rough, very raw - hehe).

slightly belated submission

[(Anonymous)]

here's a bit I just wrote on being Asian American in Asia (http://garlicbreath.livejournal.com/176845.html)

[bossymarmalade]

I was really wary about participating again because of the nonsense I had to deal with last time, but belatedly wrote something.

http://bossymarmalade.dreamwidth.org/472629.html

I will totally understand if I'm too late to make the Carnival!

[ex_lily871]

Hopefully I'm still in time!
http://lily.dreamwidth.org/1003.html