#BehindTheScenes shots from 6 different #indie #filming productions that I've worked on in the past. I usually managed productions & wore multiple crew hats during my past work in film.
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Asher woke me up hella early. I can't get back to sleep so warmed up some soup. It's Chinese cabbage with fish balls.
Asher was warming up my chair & is now loafing on my lap.
2010. When I played a scarface #Asian mafia boss lady on a horror film short production. Filmed at the old Hung Fat #kungfu club in Chinatown. Gentrification got their longtime, oldest kungfu association in BC, evicted a few years ago.
Gloria Tsoi, pictured with me, owns & runs the kung-fu club - passed down from ancestors. We've been friends since the 90s.
Their website:
https://www.hungfut.ca/
#Throwback to being cast as a high school student for a medical science film from an older PhD student at UVIC, 2 weeks after my 40th birthday in 2015. All the actual minor kids cast as students were bigger than me 
#Mangosteens from #Chinatown 
I love them. Rarely buy because they aren't cheap here.
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@argumento Of interest to #TootSEA / #AsianMastodon communities 
#ThrowbackThursday
2017.
A #portrait that Danielle took of me at Wheelies Motorcycles & Cafe, in the Rock Bay area of #VictoriaBC - for a charity ride event.
"Chinese and Indigenous communities have shared histories. We faced hardships together while mining for gold in the British Columbia gold rush and experiencing the rugged Canadian weather and terrain.
There are many graves on First Nations territories when Chinese people died from the flu and from the building of the railway, crushed by landslides, collapsing tunnels and premature blastings (Mittelstedt, 2014). The First Nations communities took in the Chinese railroad workers and care for their grave sites to this day (Mittelstedt, 2014). We enjoyed economic success and partnerships that were respectful and mutually beneficial (Ma, 2012). Chinese people leased lands (on First Nations) to farm and then hired Indigenous people to help farm the land (Mathur et al., 2011, p. 74). The Chinese built elaborate gold-mining operations among First Nations communities and perhaps most importantly our communities intermingled and there were many marriages between Chinese men and Indigenous women. In 1891, 98% of Chinese people in Canada lived in British Columbia (Barman, 2013, p. 1), which explains why there are such intimate ties between Chinese people and our First Nations communities in British Columbia. Unsurprisingly, one in six Chinese men created a family with a local Indigenous woman (Barman, 2013, p. 1)."
https://fccrwc.com/chinese-and-indigenous-history-relationships-canada/
FCCRWC The Foundation to Commemorate the Chinese Railroad Workers in Canada · Chinese And Indigenous History & Relationships In Canada | FCCRWCChinese and Indigenous communities have shared histories.
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I tested out a new cane (it's really pretty - purple with colourful flowers) & used my umbrella hat for our rainy day hike today.
We ran into 3 younger hikers with a super rad Aussie shepard dog along the trails & 2 of them complimented me on my blue hair. I responded with - I love colourful things! I'm wearing a mini circus tent on my head, as you can see! Then we all laughed 
En route to pharmacy to pickup prescription refills. A #SelfPortrait in the car.
Gave my Mom this #Landback - Get Off Their Lawn hoodie. She looks great in it.
That happens, when you're conceived in a bomb bunker shelter underground & your Mom was terrified during entire eviction of you from her womb, because gunfire was active outside hospital while she was evicting me from her vagina.
My #tshirt of choice today. I'm an unofficial official lieutenant on the worldwide itty bitty titties committee 
