hey yall, how are yall doing this week? sorry for the late post i was up past 5 am talking to my friends. whats new with yall?

  • yoink [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    as a mixed immigrant, is there ever a point where I’ll actually feel at home somewhere? moving to Australia at 5 years old, as a brown skinned south east asian kid, was a hell of a thing and the end result is not fitting in in my ‘home’ country (which it really is not), but also permanently feeling like you’re on the outside in the country you’ve lived in for decades

    there’s a restlessness that’s hard to define

    one day i’ll make art about it

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      as a mixed immigrant, is there ever a point where I’ll actually feel at home somewhere? moving to Australia at 5 years old, as a brown skinned south east asian kid, was a hell of a thing and the end result is not fitting in in my ‘home’ country (which it really is not), but also permanently feeling like you’re on the outside in the country you’ve lived in for decades

      It’s quite ironic really… you’re actually geographically not that far from your homeland when in Australia… yet it’s quite isolating there, innit?

      The effects of settler-colonialism…

      • yoink [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        unfortunately for my mother in law I imagine this was the same point at which she found it completely acceptable to say unfathomably racist things in public

        god, reminds me of the time my mum (who is ALSO singaporean) started talking about ‘it’s not cool to be white anymore’ and ‘white people have it so hard’

        why does this happen lmao