India: Not a Prop Bag

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Oct 5

With all respect: The idea of your blog is interesting. Very interesting. It's one of the few blogs out there that do deal with this theme without exotification and actually subverts it. It's actually one of my favorites too. But holy dangit. It has been probably a crowd so far of people that did approach you politely and just to have horseshit replied at them. Don't do this, just makes you sound like a childish angry ass instead of someone who presents a blunt-but-valid critique.

Anonymous

Thanks, I guess.

But I am not really paid to do this. If I get tired or bored with the same old questions, or some entitled nonsense, I get irritated. That’s the internets AND real life. I don’t have the energy or the care to glove-handle every ask.

Posted 7 months ago

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ask, anon,

nomadicdreamer said: omg delicious tone-policing
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politemachinegun said: It’s not her job to handle these people with kid gloves either. The onus is on white people to educate themselves; that thisisnotindia exists does us a huge favor.
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About India: Not a Prop Bag

I blog about cultural appropriation, south asian politics (mostly Indian and Indian diasporic), racism and obnoxious, voyeuristic photography.

This blog is an attempt to train one of those harsh white Phillips tubelight on all that ugly commodification of people and culture. This blog IS intended to smash white savior-dom in the face until it bleeds, cries and whimpers away. This blog IS intended to shame exotification and neo-colonialist assholery.

Plus I like pretty pictures.

This blog is NOT for India cultural appreciation tourists. Seek your fix for upper-caste, light-skinned Bollywood love elsewhere. This blog is NOT here to showcase the "vibrancy" and "colorfulness" of Indian people. Seek your nonsensical, colonial exotification elsewhere.

This blog is NOT for educational purposes. That takes some effort and no one is paying me to do this. It should go without saying that any opinions here are mine, and does not represent any nation, creed or astrological family.

Please Take Note White Peoples
I will not be answering any questions that are “is this cultural appropriation” or “should I do this, I am worried I am racist!” — type questions. I am sorry. They bore me. If it bothers you that much, you should be able to scroll, link and read, instead of presuming I will take time to write you a reply. There is plenty of stuff on this blog that already answer these questions. And if you still haven’t sought what you are seeking… go to the library, read. Or don’t. Whatever. I do not care about your cultural appropriating soul — I am not your cultural appropriating soul checker. I might post your questions to for crowd-sourced advice though. If I feel like it.

A word on submissions:
I will not post photos that seem personal and submitted without the person-in-photo's consent. I do see a difference between that and a person posting embarrassing photos of themselves on a public platform like tumblr and it gets reblog.

For the purposes of my submission rule, Facebook is not a public platform. So please don't download photos from your facebook feed and submit it to me. I will not post it if it seems like the person doesn't seem to be aware that their picture is spread like that.