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Mixed [Sarikoli(ТошқӯрғонӣПомирӣ/塔什库尔干的帕米尔族)+Korean(延邊→在日동포)]; PhD dropout (linguistics); disabled; fighting cancer... SUPPORT PEOPLE NOT STATES — FREE D&A/ET(“XJ”)!!

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tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
Also, Drew, maybe try searching other terms too before putting out distorted accusations.

搞啥鬼屎嘛! 🙄😒
July 2, 2025 at 6:08 AM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
Also, Drew — you've never once spoken up about *my* people’s struggles in so-called "Xinjiang" either so... 🤡💩
July 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
Cackling right now at all the sinofetishist alt-imperialists trying to make sense of the Chinese embassy's Reagan nostalgia...
Screenshot from the official twitter account of the Chinese embassy in the US, featuring a video of Ronald Reagan giving a speech about tarriffs in 1987.
April 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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This whole entire thread!

Also here's a GENUINE WORK OF ART my friend Liz (lizar_tistry on IG) drew for my bday while I was getting chemo — featuring a Tashkurgan-inspired version of San from Princess Mononoke modeled after YOURS TRULY w/ a snow leopard cuddling a pumpkin under a bright full moon.
Art by lizar_tistry, a drawing of a Tashkurgan-inspired version of San from Princess Mononoke modeled after Nurdoukht Taghdumbashi (yours truly) with a sky blue hijab, white shirt, dark blue headband and arm bands, light green skirt and riding a large snow leopard that is cuddling a pumpkin in its paws, under a bright full moon with a night blue background.
April 2, 2025 at 5:22 AM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
Graphic notes based on XqSu’s article « Dust Storms, Green Waves » (published by @lausanhk.bsky.social on 24/03/21) by my friend lizar_tistry (on IG) on 26/03/21.
Digital drawing of “China”, colored in to depict “Xinjiang (East Turkestan, or Dzungarstan & Altishahr)”, the Three-North Shelter Forest Program, and the Spatial Economic Zones with a doodle of a surveillance camera, the HP logo and CCP flag, as well as various lines and textures representing enclosure and surveillance, the HP rail line, dust storms, labor transfers, and environmental toxins. Over the image is handwritten text from the article “Dust Storms, Green Waves: A lattice of violent, global relations sustains China’s Colonization of ‘Xinjiang” by Xqsu for Lausan.
March 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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I said what I said!

I first posted this meme in response to sinofetishist tankies who (nonsensically) argued that BRI would help Palestinian liberation in the long run, in spite of being provided evidence that China is Israel's largest importer, and to a decline in the capitalist world order... 🙄😒
The top panel shows a pair of hands holding a pill bottle labeled "hard to swallow pills" and the bottom panel shows a pair of hands holding and pointing at pills from the bottle, suggesting the metaphorical concept of having difficulty accepting unpleasant facts. Text over the bottom panel to follow this meme format reads, "Empires simultaneously competing against and collaborating with one another are what make the infrastructures for global mass-industrial complexes possible."
March 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
I am reminded too, of this pivotal piece as well. A must read!

lausancollective.com/2021/dust-st...
A rail line initiated by US tech conglomerate Hewlett-Packard (HP) speeds through the growing deserts of this region, where its optimization of commodity movements are paired with spatial designs that have slowing the desert as their top priority. Nevertheless, as the deserts expand roughly 2,000 square kilometers a year, each grain of sand carries the potential to be thrown across thousands of kilometers with the storm, riding air currents sometimes as far as California, unbound by jurisdictions. The Chinese state and HP signed the agreement to begin construction of this rail line in 2014. Most of the goods transported through this route are from multinational IT companies whose manufacturing is situated in Chongqing, central China. This followed a move made by the company, as well as others including Foxconn who supplies Acer, Apple, and Volkswagen, to shift their factories towards China‘s western border. In order to understand just how enmeshed states are through this transnational tech and infrastructure cooperation, it is necessary to think at multiple scales: not only the space that a rail line cuts through but also the atmospheric stream that flows and interfaces with it. The winds form a big part of how the land behaves through the desert spaces of the Taklamakan and Gobi. The Taklamakan spreads across the province of Xinjiang, a so-called autonomous region covering an area bigger than France, Germany and Spain put together, and sharing borders with Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and India. Calculations of speed and smoothness along corporate supply chains have woven together the state’s biopolitical control of the local Uyghur, indigenous, and ethnic minority populations with its fight against increasingly strange weather. Though by the design and engineering of immediate time and space, the long-term, delayed effects of industry and capital form what Rob Nixon would call a temporal disjuncture, a dislocation of causal relations across space. Such geographies of concealment diffuse and obscure the truly global nature of settler colonial dispossession and genocide. Seemingly separate ecological, labor, and indigenous struggles can be unified in the collective struggle against settler coloniality. Part of this process must hold companies like HP and their globally distributed production accountable for utilizing and supporting the mass incarceration of indigenous populations. But we must also interrogate narratives that prioritize “progress” and economic wellbeing as they too often spring from racist and exclusionary ideologies. This must go hand in hand with denaturalizing green rhetorics—where afforestation, solar power and clean energy are often complicit with settler occupation of lands all the while displacing environmental devastation to some elsewhere. Finally, critiques limited by national boundaries will only reinforce the global nature of capitalism’s inherent self-concealment by obscuring the transnational reach of dust storms, supply chains, and settler colonial exchange of technology and capital.
March 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
On cooperative antagonism in intertwined imperialist economies!
First and foremost, the mythos of China in Africa, and the general narrative of a New Cold War both serve to obscure that the global imperial order continues to be commanded by ruling class interests headquartered in the traditional administrative centers of capitalist society, which remain safely ensconced in a state machinery founded on US power. Thus, the decline of direct trade between the United States and Africa does not represent the delinking of their markets so much as the increasing delegation of power over the immediate process of production to Asia. In other words, rising exports from China to Africa represent both the reinforcement of the existing imperial order and the restructuring of its mezzanine hierarchy through the diffraction of power over production, enabling new factions of capital take on increasingly important “subimperial” roles. Marxist dependency theorist Ruy Mauro Marini and others associated with the Brazilian theoretical collective Política Operária (POLOP) described the basic pattern as one of “antagonistic cooperation,” in which certain subsidiary powers gain a degree of autonomy from lead firms in the wealthy countries even while they grow further integrated with them.55 As formulated by the POLOP theorists, this process of antagonistic cooperation “propels the peripheries’ uneven development” which then “helps develop a certain degree of political and economic autonomy for some nations despite the persistence of dependency.”
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
This is hilarious because:

Sarikoli Pamiris — the indigenous people of Tashkurgan (where my dad's family are from), are predominantly Ismaili Shi'a.

I grew up with an Ismaili Shi'a dad and a Buddhist mom... I tend to be the kind of person targeted by those espousing Islamo-revisionist terrorism.
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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March 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
And also reminds me of this film from 2022, with the title referencing a composition by Chen Gang which appropriates Sarikoli folk melodies... 🙄😒😮‍💨
March 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
Honestly reminds me of《冰山上的来客》which is also from 1963, a saviorhood propaganda film set in my father's Homeland — Tashkurgan. (And of course, the 2015 operatic play adaptation too.)
March 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Originally posted on IG on 08/11/24, art by my friend lizar_tistry.
March 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Originally posted on IG on 18/11/24, art by my friend lizar_tistry.

linktr.ee/PSLflags
March 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Originally posted on IG on 20/05/24, art by my friend lizar_tistry.
February 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
tiredsarikoligirl.bsky.social
Meanwhile at G20 in Brazil: Xi praised Starmer's economic policy (eww) and when Starmer asked about HK activist Jimmy Lai, Chinese officials paused the meeting and escorted all of the British journalists out... (1/2)

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 18, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Btw, cancer update.
November 4, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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Help me fight cancer! Would appreciate if folks could share with their networks. Thank you! bit.ly/helpnur
November 15, 2023 at 6:06 AM