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24 Apr, 4 tweets, 5 min read
Just over a couple of hours left to bid on the @Gm4Md @InsightMyanmar charity art auction on Facebook!

You can pick up some amazing pieces of art and all the money goes to support charities like @MutualAidMyanmr and Myanmar Free Ambulance!

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One of the lots up for auction by @Gm4Md @InsightMyanmar is this unique signed and illustrated copy of my book MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen

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There is also a live event starting in just under an hour featuring artists and performances which I think will be streaming on Facebook here fb.me/e/1j9muqi1W

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Live @Gm4Md event starting on Facebook in a couple of minutes!

Btw, my Facebook page is facebook.com/itsmeemalee if you want to follow.

I mainly post photos and memes there, so much like every other Burmese person in the world.

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MiMi Aye (မီးမီးအေး) Profile picture
27 Apr
A MYANMAR HISTORY THREAD:

I saw this great piece, and I wanted to add some context about just how much the cause of Myanmar women has been set back after 60 years of brutal and misogynistic oppression by the Burmese military.

aljazeera.com/features/2021/…

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Before military dictatorship in 1962, women had much more power, especially in commerce.

This extract from “Debating Democratization in Myanmar” (ed. Nick Cheesman) talks of businesses that were owned by Myanmar women.

Naga Daw Oo was my great-aunt.

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This extract is from my book Mandalay.

My grandmother’s first business The Burmese Paper Mart was requisitioned by the Myanmar military.

My grandmother never forgave them.

And she was just one of many women who they did this to.

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MiMi Aye (မီးမီးအေး) Profile picture
15 Mar
This is the mother of 17 year old medical student Khant Nyar Hein.

Her son was shot dead by junta police in Tamwe, Yangon yesterday before they dragged his body away.

I’m going to tell you all what she says in this video here fb.watch/4faSWmD0hA/

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“Even when my husband and I had no food or clothes ourselves, we worked ourselves to the bone, because wanted the best for our children.

So that no one could grind them down, the children that I gave birth to, so no one could bully them or hurt them.”

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“My husband loves me so, so much - despite my lack of schooling, he’s never once criticised me for it.

But I made sure that my own son got into the best of schools.

So I am not happy. I am not happy.”

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MiMi Aye (မီးမီးအေး) Profile picture
15 Mar
Saw someone dismiss what’s happening in Myanmar as “riots” and it made me feel sick.

The junta is murdering peaceful protestors who have been *so* careful not to fight back (yet) to ensure that the junta cannot claim it’s just quashing civil unrest.

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Was this a riot?
FYI

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MiMi Aye (မီးမီးအေး) Profile picture
14 Mar
On Mothers’ Day 2021, please spare a thought for the mothers in Myanmar fighting the junta with peaceful civil disobedience.

(video credit: anonymous)

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Every morning, it’s become routine for mothers to give a blessing to their children leaving the house to take part in the daily protests.

Every morning, mothers around Myanmar realise they may never see their child again.

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Military snipers are deliberately targeting the youth protestors with head shots.

This may be to intimidate, as they know that with the world watching they cannot easily return to their previous method of indiscriminate machine gunfire on whole crowds.

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MiMi Aye (မီးမီးအေး) Profile picture
27 Jun 20
"Chefs are in a stew about cultural theft": I talked to
@thetimes about Bon Appetit. (£) but my bit below.

Note I ALSO said the main issue is the non-white staff were not paid AT ALL and still have not been paid. Till they are, anything else is pointless thetimes.co.uk/article/two-to…
I also said that the *whole* of food media has an issue with diversity, not just TV shows, and I specifically mentioned that abhorrent NYT article which framed Asian fruits using a "white gaze", and this Guardian piece on Filipino food
Another point which I tried very hard to explain and I guess turned into this part, is that you can cook *whatever* you like, *whoever* you are and *wherever* you're from, but if you:

(a) take the piss, and
(b) profit from said piss-taking,

don't expect people to be happy.
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26 Sep 18
First day of the shoot in the bag for my forthcoming book MANDALAY: Burmese Food & Beyond!

So much fun when you have an amazing team like @missminifer @cris_barnett @absolute_press ❤️

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Day 2 done!

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Day 3 of #MandalayBFAB done!

Whoa, we’re halfway there!

Whoa-OH:
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