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Dawn Xiana Moon Profile picture
@DawnXianaMoon
Jul 29, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Even performers who make money on their art in normal times... We're struggling.

Our industry is dead/dying. A lot of people have been unemployed for 4+ months with no end in sight.

It's hard to create right now. And even livestreaming A TON - it's not a replacement for IRL.
(And I'm honestly in a fairly good mental place. But with the backdrop of the pandemic, police brutality, growing fascism... It's not a great headspace to create.

Trust me, we're all also beating ourselves up about it too. But this is not an extended vacation or artist retreat.)
Since this is getting a little traction: Ask your congresspeople to support #SaveOurStages.

Artists need venues to make magic happen for you. And you probably want to see a concert or a play sometime in the future. Stages are special places & need help.

saveourstages.com

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May 30, 2022
Over 1000 flights cancelled this weekend because staff are sick.

It's almost like US airlines, with their breathless "yay, no masks!!" failed to learn from the UK... which did exactly the same thing, with exactly the same results. 🙄
Wow. Make that 5000 flights. 😯

Delta is primarily blaming bad weather... But also admitting not having enough staff due to COVID absences.

Hmm, if only there was a way to minimize transmission somewhat. A covering you could put on your face maybe. 🤔

cbsnews.com/news/memorial-… Screenshot: "More than...
British Airways cancelled 140 flights to/out of Heathrow today. easyJet has been cancelling dozens as well.

"COVID-related staff shortages."

It really just feels like the US and UK gave up at some point. Screenshot from the Indepen...
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Mar 20, 2021
Let's get a few things straight.

You can be an Asian massage therapist and not a sex worker.*

There is ZERO evidence right now that any of the women who were murdered were sex workers, or that the spas themselves offered sex.

#StopAsianHateCrimes
One of the murdered women was the owner of the spa and had worked herself up from being a nail tech. She was a licensed massage therapist. You can see it as the "American Dream" if you want. She worked hard and made good. It ended with an American murder.
The reason the narrative now is all about sex is that Asian women have been sexualized by the West for hundreds of years. Racism against Asian women almost always has a sexualized component - official sanction of this goes all the way back to the Page Act in 1875.

#StopAAPIHate
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Mar 19, 2021
People keep assuming the women were sex workers.

At least one was both the owner of the spa and a *licensed massage therapist.*

Your assumptions are racist.

#StopAAPIHate
* Because this is Twitter, note that sex workers should be respected and are people who deserve to be treated as such. Full stop.

But there's also a long history of the white gaze sexualizing Asian women, and that's gross and racist.
We are a blank canvas that white men project their sexual fantasies upon.

We are not demure servants here for your pleasure. And we are not dragon ladies.

We are human, and the full spectrum of sexuality & asexuality & submissiveness & dominance that encompasses.
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Mar 18, 2021
Here's the thing: This kind of violence and hatred isn't new.

It's escalated (exponentially) thanks to conversatives blaming China for COVID. But American violence against people who look like me has been happening for 200 years.

#StopAsianHateCrimes
This country never wanted us. The very first immigration ban was put in place because the US didn't want Chinese people. The entire concept of "legal" vs. "illegal" immigration exists because of American xenophobia toward us.

Anti-miscegenation laws listed us specifically.
The US had laws specifically prohibiting Asians from becoming citizens. And laws specifically barring us from owning property. The latest one was passed in 1943, and many of them were not stuck down until the 1950s.
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Sep 26, 2020
Trump's officially nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Amy Coney Barrett was part of the legal team that helped George W. Bush win his recount battle in Florida in 2000.
That election was decided by 537 votes. In a state where perhaps 12,000 voters were incorrectly removed from the rolls (no one knows the exact number).

Who else helped Bush win in the courts?

Brett Kavanaugh.

And current Chief Justice John Roberts.

thenation.com/article/archiv…
November's election will almost certainly be contested. Trump's publicly refused to commit to peacefully leaving office.

The writing is on the wall. Pressure every Senator, including Dems, because they're already talking about not fighting the appointment.
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Sep 23, 2020
This is very, very bad.

But here's the thing: It may only take 3.5% of a population to topple a dictator. And we're not quite there yet, though we've gone a long way down that path.
Call your reps & never stop making a stink even when the current admin lives down to your already low expectations - people who study autocrats say that autocrats take and keep power bc feckless bureaucrats will support whoever seems to have the upper hand.
Make it look like the people have the other hand. Remind them that they will be held accountable.

Vote like your life and the lives of people you care about are on the line, because they are.
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