Comments on: All Your Meme are Belong to Us

By: Asmaa

Asmaa — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:20:41 +0000

I find none of these hard to believe :D

By: ahem- « isms qua iffisms

ahem- « isms qua iffisms — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:41:15 +0000

[...] January 19, 2009 after seeing the invitation to self-tag on runltw, i’ve used the following rules Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note [...]

By: iffat

iffat — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:31:37 +0000

i just tagged myself.

By: fathima

fathima — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:12:59 +0000

“turn right, turn right, oh my god, i said turn RIGHT.”
“shit, where are we.”

By: adnan.

adnan. — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:08:35 +0000

#3, i’d like to hear said british accent.

#11, you don’t need to know right from left, just follow the arrows.

also, sometimes when i’m picking up noaman from somewhere, he’ll tell me to pick him up from the south-east corner of so and so intersection. to which i say, “i don’t have a damn compass on me, tell me what gas station you’ll be at”

By: fathima

fathima — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:17:12 +0000

yaser –
it’s about a process of constructing race. as opposed to saying these are students “of colour,” which implies that there’s something intrinsic and static about race/culture/difference, what this is about is the systemic practices by which people are made to feel different/foreign.
what i was thinking about here in particular was how obviously uncomfortable some of the girls — particularly ones who led culturally-sheltered lives — were in claiming english as their language, as something to which they had a right. so a lot of my pedagogy revolved around the need to see english not as a marker of some identity-position conflicting with their own (ie, western, elitist, etc), but a instrument that they could use to their benefit.
it sounds theoretical and academic, the way i’m explaining it here, but this was pretty basic. i’d never really encountered it so blatantly before, the way immigrant/nonwhite kids can be so self-conscious about their language skills and the way that insecurity invariably leads to further isolation

asad –
i’ve forgotten my own birthday on several occasions. i mostly don’t get the point, really

By: asad

asad — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:50:15 +0000

=) i think number five is pretty awesome. and thirteen is funny. i don’t think i was ever good at remembering my own age, and i’ve just become worse since i stopped celebrating my birthday.
oh and i’m a little anaemic too! (explains some of the fainting)

By: yaser

yaser — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:25:34 +0000

what does ‘racialised’ mean? i saw a poster the other day advertising a mentorship group for ‘racialised students.’