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Case Studies to Improve Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Data Collection, Reporting, and Dissemination

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:01:20 -0400

Case Studies to Improve Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Data Collection, Reporting, and Dissemination:

In 2011, the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) began a qualitative review of HIV/AIDS surveillance reports, epidemiologic profiles (epi-profiles), and other surveillance-related documents across 50 state health departments and several cities funded directly by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Through this review, several jurisdictions were identified for further review to detail and document “promising” practices related to HIV/AIDS data collection, reporting, and dissemination for AA and NHPI populations.

This report includes in-depth case studies of three jurisdictions: New York, Hawaii, and San Francisco. All three represent jurisdictions with significant AA and NHPI populations and significant rates of HIV/AIDS in AA and NHPI populations. Each jurisdiction historically and/or currently demonstrates a level of responsiveness to increased needs for AA and NHPI HIV/AIDS data to inform planning and prevention service efforts. In developing these case studies, APIAHF also conducted multiple interviews with health department surveillance staff (current and former), health department leadership (e.g. Prevention Managers), community-based organization (CBO) representatives, and other stakeholders.

This report also includes “bright ideas” or mini-case studies of practices implemented by jurisdictions across the U.S. These mini-case studies include states where there are emerging AA and NHPI communities and/or trends of increasing impact of HIV/AIDS on AA and NHPI communities. Similar to the in-depth case studies, these “bright ideas” were developed based on review of available documents as well as key informant interviews with health department staff.

You can download it here.

Confirm Sri Srinivasan to the DC Circuit!

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:08:20 -0400

May is APA Heritage Month Confirm Sri Srinivasan to the DC Circuit! There are only two Asian Pacific Americans currently serving on the Federal Appellate Courts. If confirmed, Srinivasan will be the first South Asian American on the U.S. Court of Appeals in American history.

Srinivasan is eminently qualified. A graduate of Stanford University (law school, business school, and undergraduate degrees), he is the current Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and has argued 25 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. The American Bar Association rated Srinivasan “unanimously well-qualified,” its highest rating.

Srinivasan has lived the American Dream. Srinivasan was born in Chandigarh, India and immigrated to the United States with his parents and two younger sisters as a child, later becoming a naturalized citizen. He was raised in Lawrence, Kansas, where his father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas, and his mother taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and later worked at the University of Kansas in the Computer Science Department.

Srinivasan has bi-partisan support. Srinivasan was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with unanimous bi-partisan support. Former high-level officials from the Solicitor General’s office—six of them Democrats, six of them Republicans—issued a letter in support Srinivasan’s nomination.

Help Sri Srinivasan Today!

Sri Srinivasan was UNANIMOUSLY voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 16^th and is now eligible to receive a Senate vote for confirmation. You can help confirm him by asking Senators Reid and McConnell to schedule a confirmation vote.

Calls should be made to both Senator Reid and Senator McConnell.

Reid: 202-224-3542 • McConnell: 202-224-2541

When you call tell the senate staffer:

“Hello. My name is _____________. May is APA Heritage Month. As an Asian Pacific American, I would like the Senator to schedule a vote in May for Sri Srinivasan, nominee for the DC Circuit and vote to confirm him.”

The senate staffer will ask where you live. Provide that information and say Thank You.

Call To Action: Tell These Senators To Keep Families Together!

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:20:57 -0400

Call To Action: Tell These Senators To Keep Families Together!:

Support Senator Hironos amendments to keep families together by calling Senate Judiciary Committee Members

The Senate Judiciary Committee has gotten through 90% of the amendments to the immigration reform bill. CALL THESE SENATORS NOW to voice your support for family reunification!

Asian Pacific Islander Americans are strongly affected by family-based visas. ACT NOW!

"In sixth grade Mrs. Walker slapped the back of my head and made me stand in the corner for not..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:28 -0400

“

In sixth grade Mrs. Walker
slapped the back of my head
and made me stand in the corner
for not knowing the difference
between persimmon and precision.
How to choose

persimmons. This is precision.
Ripe ones are soft and brown-spotted.
Sniff the bottoms. The sweet one
will be fragrant. How to eat:
put the knife away, lay down newspaper.
Peel the skin tenderly, not to tear the meat.
Chew the skin, suck it,
and swallow. Now, eat
the meat of the fruit,
so sweet,
all of it, to the heart.

Donna undresses, her stomach is white.
In the yard, dewy and shivering
with crickets, we lie naked,
face-up, face-down.
I teach her Chinese.
Crickets: chiu chiu. Dew: I’ve forgotten.
Naked: I’ve forgotten.
Ni, wo: you and me.
I part her legs,
remember to tell her
she is beautiful as the moon.

Other words
that got me into trouble were
fight and fright, wren and yarn.
Fight was what I did when I was frightened,
Fright was what I felt when I was fighting.
Wrens are small, plain birds,
yarn is what one knits with.
Wrens are soft as yarn.
My mother made birds out of yarn.
I loved to watch her tie the stuff;
a bird, a rabbit, a wee man.

Mrs. Walker brought a persimmon to class
and cut it up
so everyone could taste
a Chinese apple. Knowing
it wasn’t ripe or sweet, I didn’t eat
but watched the other faces.

My mother said every persimmon has a sun
inside, something golden, glowing,
warm as my face.

Once, in the cellar, I found two wrapped in newspaper,
forgotten and not yet ripe.
I took them and set both on my bedroom windowsill,
where each morning a cardinal
sang, The sun, the sun.

Finally understanding
he was going blind,
my father sat up all one night
waiting for a song, a ghost.
I gave him the persimmons,
swelled, heavy as sadness,
and sweet as love.

This year, in the muddy lighting
of my parents’ cellar, I rummage, looking
for something I lost.
My father sits on the tired, wooden stairs,
black cane between his knees,
hand over hand, gripping the handle.
He’s so happy that I’ve come home.
I ask how his eyes are, a stupid question.
All gone, he answers.

Under some blankets, I find a box.
Inside the box I find three scrolls.
I sit beside him and untie
three paintings by my father:
Hibiscus leaf and a white flower.
Two cats preening.
Two persimmons, so full they want to drop from the cloth.

He raises both hands to touch the cloth,
asks, Which is this?

This is persimmons, Father.

Oh, the feel of the wolftail on the silk,
the strength, the tense
precision in the wrist.
I painted them hundreds of times
eyes closed. These I painted blind.
Some things never leave a person:
scent of the hair of one you love,
the texture of persimmons,
in your palm, the ripe weight.

”

- Li-Young Lee, “Persimmons” (via calypsoed)

"It’s also important to recognize that every family is different. Sister and brother — parent and..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:04:57 -0400

“It’s also important to recognize that every family is different. Sister and brother — parent and child — who is to say what the most important relationship within a family is?”

- Rep. Judy Chu, Chair of the Congressional APA Caucus, today in Politico

Senator Patrick Leahy has suggested today might be the last day of the Senate Judiciary Committee markup process. If there were ever a time to call a Senator and tell them to stand up for reunification for all kinds of families, it’s now.

I don’t usually bother y’all with this kind of thing, but this is a golden opportunity to move Senators like Schumer (D-NY) and Feinstein (D-CA) who have been waffling on some of these issues in the right direction.

(via 18mr)

Watch the livestream of the CIR Markup here

Help Fund the Southeast Asian Student Coalition Summer Institute

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:52 -0400

Help Fund the Southeast Asian Student Coalition Summer Institute:

The Southeast Asian Student Coalition’s (SASC) mission is:

“To unite Southeast Asian Communities, particularly those bounded by the historical context of the Viet Nam War, and to address the economic inequalities, social injustices, and political under-representation that they face.”

SI is an all-expense paid, five-day educational program hosted at UC Berkeley that connects high school students and community members nationwide. We bring 36 high school students from all over the country to address Southeast Asian underrepresentation in higher education and low recruitment and retention rates.

20% of US population DO NOT have a high school diploma

20% of Asian Americans DO NOT have a high school diploma

Compare this to

38% of Vietnamese Americans, 50% of Laotian Americans,

54% of Cambodian Americans, 60% of Hmong Americans

DO NOT HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

The US National Average for a Bachelors Degree:28.8%

US National Average for Asian Americans for a Bachelors Degree: 44%

While 7.5% of Hmong Americans and 9.4% of Laotian Americans have a Bachelor’s Degree.

By connecting students to their culture and history, we aim to foster young leaders and empower students to create social change.

SI offers free housing in the UC Berkeley dorms, free transportation to all northern and central California residents, free food, and workshops.

Your donation would allow us to make this program more accessible to youth all over the nation. It would enable us to provide dorm housing for students who are stepping onto a college campus for the first time or who may not have any other opportunity to experience college otherwise. Dorm reservations, food and transportation take up the bulk of our budget, but they are crucial to the overall experience of this program.

Other Ways You Can Help

We understand that there are folks who want to contribute to the success of the program, but donations are not always possible. We would appreciate it if you could circulate our campaign to others who you think would be interested in donating or supporting our mission.

Forward Mentee Application to students who might be interested in the

program.tinyurl.com/si2013app

Apply to be a Mentor or Volunteer for the program. Applications will be open soon.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fo…

Attend our annual Benefit Concert on March 16th

raiseourstory: I came to the U.S. with my grandmother at the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:01:09 -0400

raiseourstory:

I came to the U.S. with my grandmother at the age of 15. Our family became separated, some sent back to South Korea and unable to return to America. I was living by myself at the age of 17. At the time, I thought a visa was just something you could always renew, like a passport.

When it was time for college, I discovered my undocumented status, and it was devastating. Thankfully, I was able to go to college on a full private scholarship, but after graduating, my undocumented status made itself felt: I had no access to financial aid, no money to pay for graduate school, and no way to legally work. I nearly broke under the weight of my undocumented status. I lived in this invisible bubble, screaming inside: “Please, someone save me”.

Currently, I am granted Deferred Action and have a work authorization. I am a member of RAISE and am working at MinKwon Center for Community Action as a youth program associate, all in an effort to organize young Asian Americans working for immigration reform. In the movement, I found my lost identity. The young, passionate, and brave kid is now back, as is a sense of hope: in the future, I hope to work as a research neuroscientist.

Image credit: Jill Damatac Futter for Raise Our Story

how big is your following/ far is your blog's reach?

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:32 -0400

I think it’s decent, but since it’s on Tumblr I’m not sure how many people it actually reaches besides the people who follow my blog.

I’m too lazy/busy to run Google Analytics or Statcounter, ha.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION!

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:44:39 -0400

On Tuesday, May 21st, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin considering amendments to sections of the immigration bill dealing with family-based visas. Judiciary Committee members need to hear from supporters of family reunification from across the country - not just those who live in their states - about the affect these amendments will have on our communities.

Please call TODAY, May 20th and TOMORROW, May 21st. On both days, Senate staff will be reporting on the number of calls for and against each amendment to the Senators. Phone numbers are below.

Tell them: “I urge the Senator to SUPPORT Hirono amendments #6, #7, and #8, which preserves family reunification. I also urge you to OPPOSE Cruz #4 and Sessions #48 amendements that would hurt immigrant families. “

Senator Hirono’s Amendments #6, #7, and #8
(Amendments #6 and #7 would retain or restore the family-sponsored visa categories for older married children and siblings of US citizens. Amendment #8 would raise the age cap of adult married children to 39 for family-based, merit-based, and non-immigrant visas).

Senator Cruz’s Amendment #4
Amendment #4 would completely eliminate family-supported visa categories for married-adult children as well as siblings.

Senator Sessions’ Amendment #48
Amendment #48 would not give points for brothers and sisters for US citizens under the proposed merit-based immigration system.

Please Tweet, Facebook, and whatever over social media outlets you have access to, these following messages:
“I urge the Senator to SUPPORT Hirono amendments #6, #7, and #8, which preserves family reunification.
I also urge you to OPPOSE Cruz #4 and Sessions #48 amendements that would hurt immigrant families.”

Please use the following handles and #hashtags:
#CIRmarkup, #SJC (Senate Judiciary Committee), #timeisnow, #familyunity.

Also, Tweet Judiciary Committee Members:
@SenatorLeahy, @SenFeinstein, @ChuckSchumer, @SenatorDurbin, @SenWhitehouse, @amyklobuchar, @alfranken, @ChrisCoons, @SenBlumenthal, @maziehirono, @ChuckGrassley, @OrrinHatch, @SenatorSessions, @LindseyGrahmSC, @JohnCornyn, @SenMikeLee, @tedcruz, @JeffFlke

If you do not have access to Social Media, please call ALL of the Senators below:
Senator Charles Schumer (NY): (202) 224-6542
Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA): (202) 224-3841
Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT): (202) 224-2823
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI): (202) 224-2921
Orrin Hatch (UT): (202) 224-5251
Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN): (202) 224-3244
Senator Christopher Coons (DE): (202) 224-5042
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT): (202) 224-4242

THE NEXT TWO DAYS ARE IMPORTANT AND WILL HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON THE BILL!
Let’s make sure that we have our voices heard and support the amendments that support our communities!

If you have any question, please e-mail Janet Namkung, Namkung.Janet@gmail.com!

Please feel free to share and distribute widely!

sinidentidades: On the Street: UndocuAsians Come Out Asians are...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:01:21 -0400

sinidentidades:

On the Street: UndocuAsians Come Out

Asians are a driving force behind migration to the U.S. and the demographic shifts; 40 percent of all migrants to the U.S. hail from Asia, and 40 percent of Asian Americans were not born in the U.S. What’s more, 1.2 million of the country’s 18 million Asian Americans are undocumented, according to the Asian American Justice Center.

So who are the country’s undocumented Asian American youth? They’re students and granddaughters and big brothers. They’re all over the country. Sitting next to you in class. Riding the bus alongside you. Probably dating your cousins. And if the latest social media campaign from the undocumented youth contingent of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is any indication, they’re a seriously hip crowd committed to social justice.

Raise Our Story, organized by the Asian-American undocumented youth group RAISE and launched this week, will collect and highlight stories of undocumented Asian-American youth to highlight the many faces of immigration. As the immigration reform bill heats up, RAISE youth organized the initiative to make sure that the immigration reform debate includes the stories and voices of Asian immigrants, “who are often overlooked in the narrative surrounding immigration reform,” they said in a statement. But organizers also hope the project empowers the Asian American immigrant community to speak their stories aloud.

Share yours on Facebook, at Twitter via @raiseourstory, and on Tumblr, where you can read the stories of the folks whose photos are included below.

reallifedocumentarian: Today is Yuri Kochiyama’s 93rd birthday....

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:50:29 -0400

reallifedocumentarian:

Today is Yuri Kochiyama’s 93rd birthday. Happy Birthday to a powerful Japanese American woman who is an inspiration to so many Asian American youth. If y’all don’t already know about her, you should learn some more about Yuri Kochiyama.

“Cuz when I grow up, I wanna be just like Yuri Kochiyama, comma, serve the people proper.”

reallifedocumentarian: May 19th- Celebrating the births of both...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:40:23 -0400

reallifedocumentarian:

May 19th- Celebrating the births of both El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) and Yuri Kochiyama.

Stand together, fight together, build together.

Asian America, stand with Black folks and fight white supremacy and the anti-Blackness that lives in our communities.

paach: A Thousand Names (Asian Heritage Month) // spoken word...

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:00:46 -0400

paach:

A Thousand Names (Asian Heritage Month) // spoken word (by jasonchumusic)

And so our distance grew like the silence
Like we were the aliens they had raised and carried inside them
And the air between us is thick, but we still bear their names
And each name carries stories that we rarely even claim
The sacrifices of a generation we sometimes can’t even stand
When we pick up the phone and hear their anxious demands
And honestly? Sometimes we curse them
Say they don’t get it, they’re so obsessed with curfews and grades
either the Ivy League or at least UCLA
Makin sure we play the violin, pushing us to earn a high paying wage
And we judge them saying they’re just playing a greedy and self-centered game

Not seeing behind them the stories with which they came
The villages they left, little sisters they couldn’t save
Traditions that they lost, the homes they gave away
In the hopes that their children would not go hungry to their graves
So today? We come bearing their names
A thousand generations lived in the lands they left
We come because we pray before they find their death
We can speak life into the world and that’s the legacy they’ll have left

FINALS: We are America, America Is Home National Photo Contest

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:04:20 -0400

Over the past month, the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC) has collected family photographs and stories to be included in a national photo album. This photo album and story collection will be presented to key legislators to show them how important FAMILY is to the immigrant community. Strong families make strong communities which make a stronger country.

NAKASEC and their affiliates Korean Resource Center (KRC) in Los Angeles and Korean American Resource and Cultural Center (KRCC) in Chicago have been working alongside other Asian American organizations across the country to ensure that families will be kept together and/or reunited under the proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THESE STORIES! These submissions are in the final round of voting and it’s up to the public to decide who will win the 1,000 prize. CAST YOUR VOTE NOW! Tell us which stories MOVE YOU!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/181445_10151571172539286_2023757833_n.jpg

Lucy Liu: On Race in Hollywood

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:01:07 -0400

Lucy Liu: On Race in Hollywood:

generasian:

In this recent interview with Net-A-Porter, actress Lucy Liu talks about typecasting in Hollywood and her struggle to transcend “ethnic” roles:

“I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add race to it and it became, ‘Well, she’s too Asian’, or, ‘She’s too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It’s a very strange place to be. You’re not Asian enough and then you’re not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.”

John Cho – on the infantilization of Asian Americans

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:01:27 -0400

asamstudiesintro:

from Oliver Wang, “The Game-Changer: An Interview With John Cho,” Asia Pacific Arts 7.3.2009) <http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/090703/article.asp?parentID=110145>

APA: Last question…for Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Viva La Union recorded a song for the soundtrack with the line, “I want my own Chinese baby” — what’s that about?

JC: When I was thinking about it, I thought of a literal baby. There’s a kind of lack that children fill, that’s just the dark side of being a parent, I think. And there’s an accessory quality to Chinese babies in America, and I just think it’s funny. I just liked it. And you know, I would know people who would fawn over Asian babies more, and it got me to thinking, there’s this belief that Asian babies are really cute, and it got me thinking that our whole race is infantilized to some degree, and it manifests itself in different ways. You infantilize a woman, and she becomes eroticized. You infantilize a man, and he becomes emasculated. You infantilize a baby [laughs] — and it’s possible, it appears that you can infantilize a baby even more. [laughs] The babies need to be cuter than white babies. And it’s just a weird thing that I felt like said something about mainstream America’s relationship to Asians in general. So that’s where it came from.

funny note to the previous post:

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:28:00 -0400

I’ve been using this seasoning literally as long as I can remember in everything that I cook and I didn’t realize it was MSG until my friend was over and was reading the label.

DEEEEELICIOUS.

The Racist Myth of MSG and 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome'

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:01:34 -0400

zuky:

This is the story of a racist myth that began with a light-hearted letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 and subsequently exploded in North American culture — in direct opposition to every shred of scientific evidence — becoming so prevalent that credulous eaters buy into it to the point of experiencing its effects on a purely psychosomatic basis.

It’s often been called “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” and its premise is that MSG in Chinese food results in unpleasant allergic reactions. Interestingly enough, higher quantities of MSG in non-Chinese foods are not reported to have the same effects. MSG is a naturally occurring amino acid, and some of the highest levels of MSG a North American consumer is likely to ingest come in vine-ripened tomatoes, aged cheese, and dry-aged steak — yet there is no reported medical phenomenon known as “Italian Food Syndrome” or “American Steakhouse Syndrome”.

Monosodium glutamate was first isolated from the seaweed kombu, commonly used in the Japanese broth dashi, by biochemist Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University in 1908. He named its taste umami because it differed from the five conventional flavours of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and spicy. Ikeda patented his discovery and MSG became commercially available in 1909. It was found to enhance flavours with one third of the amount of sodium as traditional salt, i.e. sodium chloride. In this sense, monosodium glutamate is probably healthier than sodium chloride because it achieves flavour with reduced sodium levels.

MSG was immediately popular in Asia and became common in the North American food industry after World War II, used in baby food, canned soup, vegetable juice, frozen food, as well as seasoning mix brands such as Accent. Yet somehow in the 1960s, this popular food additive became associated with Chinese food and deemed a health hazard. Why? Because Chinese people, culture, and food have been targeted by widespread and effective racist hate campaigns in North America since the 19th century, buttressed by wild claims that the Chinese are “unclean”, carry diseases, are sexually-deviant opium addicts, inscrutable and sneaky, a Yellow Peril.

The 1968 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine which solidified the myth of MSG was actually written by a Chinese immigrant named Robert Ho Man Kwok, who described “numbness at the back of the neck, gradually radiating to both arms and the back, general weakness and palpitation” after eating in American Chinese restaurants. The letter opened the floodgates to a barage of letters and related articles complaining of headaches, dizziness, paralysis of the throat, tingling in the temples, tightness of the jaw, irregular heartbeat, depression, hyperactivity, and all manner of digestive ailments.

Given this preponderance of anecdotal evidence, numerous scientific studies have been performed since then attempting to identify this “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome”. The funny thing is that no study has ever been able to do so. When people don’t know that they’re consuming MSG, they don’t suffer adverse reactions. All national and international food safety bodies have concluded that MSG is perfectly safe. People in Japan eat MSG every single day and the Japanese have the longest life expectancy in the world.

Fear of MSG is a racist remnant of the Chinese Exclusion era which exists only in North America and has been thoroughly debunked by science. Yet racist socialization is so powerful that people actually experience physical effects such as headaches, depression, and indigestion based solely on their indoctrinated fear of Chinese people and Chinese food. Think it over next time you eat parmesan cheese or a vine-ripened tomato.

confusedtree: onlyreflex: confusedtree: antesdelfinale: confu...

Mon, 13 May 2013 06:01:01 -0400

confusedtree:

onlyreflex:

confusedtree:

antesdelfinale:

confusedtree:

The cult of personality around celebrities like George Takei has always kind of mystified me because while their actual body of work is pretty solid (sometimes I just think about the episode of Adventure Time he was on and burst out laughing in public), their personas are essentially this weird mishmash of assembly line opinions for the lowest common denominator

Of course that also very accurately describes a lot of the meme culture that’s moved to the forefront of the collective consciousness in that it’s minimal, cookie-cutter effort for disproportionate responses

George Takei posts something as shitty and sexist and harmful as this stupid thing and the people who love George Takei just love him more because of it and the cycle repeats ad infinitum because anyone who gets upset about how shitty this is and the fact that it’s coming from a celebrity they up until now loved on a platform seen by literally millions of people gets labelled as someone who simply “takes the internet too seriously”

Don’t conflate being a decent human being with being gay, famous, and aware of who grumpy cat is

…it’s a joke…

Okay this is where the fun begins because I’m going to ask you what the joke here is and you have to tell me without accidentally revealing that you’re a crappy person who thinks strippers are stupid or have to have a specific tragic backstory in order to get into their line of work

Ten seconds on the clock please

What is the joke

It’s essentially pun humor, you dense cunt.
Get the hell over yourself please.

In all your years sailing the seven seas travelling to the dark corners of the world where madness knows no end and fear cuts deeper than the sharpest swords have you ever actually encountered a pun face to face

We expect better, George.

maasufightsback: Share your story with us please at...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:14:31 -0400

maasufightsback:

Share your story with us please at advocacy@maasu.org! STAY FIERCE!

titotito shares his thoughts on bullying. SO MUCH LOVE, TITO <3