just like a casual psa: as a filipino born and raised in the philippines, nothing pisses me off more than my ethnicity being collectively called “filipinx” like. we are not latinxs whose language is gendered or whose language history has led to the wide acceptance of the use of “latinxs”. filipino is a gender neutral language. we don’t use “she” or “he” for pronouns, we simply use “siya”. we don’t use the words “wife” or “husband”, we simply use “asawa”. FILIPINO IS A GENDER NEUTRAL LANGUAGE. stop applying western standards to make up some new collective term for filipinos. our identity as a people is fucked enough as it is with colonial mentality. nobody from the philippines actually uses “filipinx” in reference to themselves. using “-x” as a suffix in an attempt to be gender neutral while referring to my ethnicity as a whole does more harm than good bc it makes it seem like my own language is not enough when it, in fact, is. why make up a new term under the guise of gender neutrality when the language itself is already gender neutral to begin with? it doesn’t make sense.
if you wanna identify as “filipinx” bc of diasporia, that’s cool. that’s for YOU. but all i ask is to not use it to collectively refer to my ethnicity as a whole. it feeds into the colonial mentality that is so ingrained in our culture, where many filipinos conform to western standards in everything, from language to fashion to beauty, and it needs to end. we don’t need westerners making it harder for us to embrace ourselves. it’s hard enough as it is.
back in 2015, tumblr made me start using “filipinx” to refer to my people under the guise of gender neutrality. this made me forget this small but significant part of my own culture. it made me forget my own language. thank god there were people who made me stop and think and get out of the western mentality that is so deeply ingrained in me by society. what i don’t understand is how this trend is still being used to this day.
just. please. it’s 2017. call us who we are: filipino.
and to further my point, this has been already discussed here. if you’re one of the people still using ‘filipinx’ as a blanket term for my entire ethnicity, i beg you to read the link and understand.
my mom’s style of interior decorating goes something along:
while u were gone i went into your bedroom and put ninety three 4x6″ photos of you at various ages and eleven portraits of the beatles on your wall! you’ve listened to the beatles right???
Courtney Alexander, founder of Dust II Onyx, has been reading tarot for years, and she’d always notice how hard it was to come by a deck featuring people of color – never mind Black people. So, she sought to publish her very own deck called A Melanated Tarot.
“Dust II Onyx began as a tarot deck I created to address the lack of representation in the tarot world.”
The deck isn’t due to come out until Summer 2017, but until then, support Courtney by liking the Dust II Onyx facebook page and try to stay updated so when she does publish the cards, her fellow witches can add them to their divination toolset.
I know Dust II Onyx will go far! Ashe <3
I’m here for it
Asking a real knowledge seeking question: Can a nonblack witch buy these or would that be inappropriate? Would it just be cultural appropriation?
