Ms. Que Banh

Family Caregiver.
Eco/Social Justice Activist. Disability Advocate. Decolonizer. Accessibility Consultant. Eldercare Liason. Death Doula.
Teochew Chinese & Kinh/Ta-oi Indigenous Vietnamese.
War & Polio Survivor.
ND, AuDHD.
Nature lover. Cat lover. Photographer. Gardener. Water/Forest protector.
GenX.
AnarchoSocialist.
Radical disabled leftie.
Yeller, at corrupt government, cops & corporations.

Vancouver Island, BC.

#AsianMastodon #POC #StopEcocide #BeTheChange #ACAB

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@PhoenixSerenity
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2024-08-31 22:53:41

Just signed up for 4 hours of cooking with a motley crew of local volunteers who are just as keen as I am about feeding hungry poor folks living amidst our communities, with nourishing & yummy foods.
Me & my family have experienced extreme hunger before & we know how damn awful it is. My family also used to be judged by inhumane people, because we were poor & also because we were foreign war refugees.
I don't want any hungry folks to go hungry. I can't feed everyone but can help to feed several folks, with others, who also care about folks that most privileged society chooses to judge harshly, without trying to help out.

2024-08-12 01:48:11

#PawPaw
#Persimmon
#Hazelnuts
#Quinces
All growing well at #WellandCommunityOrchard 🙂
#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #CommunityFood #LegacyPark #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits #nuts #FruitTrees #orchard #FoodTrees #GrowingFood #GrowingFruits
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2024-07-20 14:06:42

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100%. And becoming disabled contributes to both of those social & health issues too. People need help & access to alternative health services. Not more ignorant judgements & more stigmatization - already too much of that happening & it's made things worse, not better.

2024-07-20 13:52:07

When it comes to #reporting on #NorthAmerica’s #OverdoseCrisis — the worst in our history — #misleading articles can increase #stigma against people who use #drugs, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire #BadFaith policy and make it more difficult for other #journalists to gain the trust and respect of #MarginalizedCommunities.
Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug #journalism from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that #decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs “made #Vancouver the #fentanyl capital of the world.”
The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other #misleading claims, including stating that #SafeSupply programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.
Reporting like this misses important context about the #DrugCrisis, allowing #politicians to drum up fear about #HarmReduction rather than confront how decades of #prohibition have impacted the current #FentanylCrisis. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on #opioids turned to heroin instead. Eventually, #DrugTraffickers began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/fearmongering-about-drug-dens-is-making-canadas-crisis-worse/article_3cb43484-444e-11ef-90b0-a7fbb265a168.html
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #BreakTheStigma #AddictionEducation #Fearmongering #StopStigmatizingAddiction #Health #Medical #HealthPolicies #MediaManipulation #BreakStatusQuo #FundTreatmentServices #FundHealthCare #FundMedicalServices #CommunityHealth

2024-07-18 15:42:09

#TreeThursday
Terrific #Arbutus #tree ❤️
I have a few different fave #NativeTree species & #madrona arbutus trees are one of them.
#Nature #TreeLovers #Treehugger #Arbor #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #BCCoast #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #ProtectNature #ProtectTrees #ProtectForests #WildFirst #NatureFirst #Ecological #environmentalist #Sepia #monochrome #DisabledPhotographers #DisabledHiker #photography #YYJphotographers #NatureWalk #TreesAreFriends #WorldInMyEyes
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2024-07-18 14:10:38

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I ate 3 slices, last evening.
#blueberries #cheesecake #food #dessert
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2024-07-18 00:26:31

I have a headache, my jaw is super sore & I am feeling grumpy. Have to go pickup Mom's medication refills & get more Lactaid & vitamins for myself. I'm treating myself to some blueberry cheesecake after errands run. That will help me feel a bit less grumpy.
#AsianMastodon #Teochew
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2024-07-17 02:48:59

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ended faster this time with zero physical assaults

2024-07-14 20:35:16

We had a great time #learning, at the Summer #pruning workshop at #WellandCommunityOrchard today.
We learned how to properly prune your #FruitTrees to control disease, enhance the flavour of your backyard harvest & make your trees more fruitful.
I ran into a woman who had also attended the plant based materials photo developing workshop the other day. We exchanged contact info so we can do more community learning events together, in near future.
It was too hot for me to stay for the volunteers work party this afternoon. I have to still work on ripping out more invasive white morning glory vines from side yard & backyard too. I'm taking a cool down break inside basement & heading back out to rip out, after. Going to upload a few nature vids from the heritage orchard park, while cooling down.
I'm a bit peopled out ATM & will get back to messages here, tonight or tomorrow. I have my first nature adventure with a younger volunteer tomorrow afternoon. We're going to one of my fave, nearby forest parks 😊
https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/
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2024-07-11 22:00:47

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I don't want that kinda power over anyone. I just want fucking justice & equity, for ALL! I will keep on doing my personal actions & hope more folks will step up & take actions, wherever they are too.

2024-07-11 21:58:14

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I'm banned from 12 bank properties. I'm going back. Fuck em.

2024-07-11 21:54:18

I just got kicked outta Mayfair Mall✊️. For plastering #StopIsraeliApartheid stickers on #Starbucks windows & on bus stop windows beside mall. I'm now banned from Mayfair Mall. This is the 2nd local mall I'm banned from. I'm going back to slap more stickers on, when mall is closed. Fuck em. I ain't gonna stop.

2024-07-11 20:08:16

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There's 2 Oregon snowpeas plants which have produced huge peas this year!

2024-07-11 20:02:44

Picked some more big ass Oregon #snowpeas this afternoon 😊
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2024-06-19 02:50:40

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No, I disagree.
That's the colonialism/imperialism definition. It ain't true. Many distinct languages & their peoples never had any navy or army. Nor wanted either of those destructive war prep infrastructures.

2024-06-19 00:14:38

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China wants Teochew & other very distinct languages to be known as dialects, globally. Part of my family history is filled with murders & executions from imperialist China & their govt. We were displaced multiple times over hundreds of years. Our narrative history has been polluted by imperialism & very few of living Teochew peoples know their own ancestral histories, much less the thousands of struggles our peoples faced in early, forced displacements & the diaspora that followed. Very few of our Teochew peoples have intact family & cultural unity because forced displacements sever longtime family ties. We still have family members in prison - almost all are longtime political prisoners. Our modern times family members imprisoned were arrested in 1980s, 1990s & recently in past HK uprisings. Only contact we have had were medical alerts & deaths in prison notices. We have been fighting for over 25 yrs to obtain more communication with our imprisoned political family members.
Privileged people in Global North..in #Canada & USA - do not understand what our family went through & are still dealing with.

2024-06-18 23:21:54

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International linguistics determined Teochew was a distinct language on its own & not just a dialect. That's not commonly known though.

2024-06-18 22:10:28

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You can hear me talking to ducks in Teochew in this video.
https://youtube.com/shorts/4dkFtzZnOiM?si=SRlkWyu4_-J3U-nM
Translation:
Hey - ducks baby. You looking for food to eat? Yeah. Looking for food. But can't give you any food because of bird flu.

2024-06-18 22:03:21

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Many Chinese people don't even know it so I don't expect other cultures to know about it. Our language has 10 tones & my Mandarin speaking friends & most of my Cantonese speaking friends struggle when trying to learn it.

2024-06-18 21:43:10

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I remember teaching some of my white friends how to swear in Teochew & told them - almost no other Asians will understand the words because there's almost no other Teochew people in city/island here. There's several in Vancouver but not here. Our family is/was biggest Teochew clan on entire island.

2024-06-18 21:18:40

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I lived in small towns where there was a lot of racists like that...they were brainwashed throughout their lives. Some of them targeted me/my home for racial motivated hate crimes. I lived in remote area, on edge of wilderness & was home alone often. I had to scare some racists off of my old rental property, by firing shotgun warnings in air. It was a living nightmare. RCMP for that area were big racists too & never took any of my calls about hate crimes seriously. Despite racists breaking my front window, while yelling racist slurs from their trucks.

2024-06-18 21:04:42

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Progress is better than nothing. It's too bad there's residual racism.

2024-06-18 21:01:18

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That sounds like a wonderful childhood. I'd have got on with your Momma, real well 😊

2024-06-18 20:54:51

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Thank you for your support 💗 I'm very passionate about nature & protective of the wild things/beings. This is a lifelong passion & big part of my lifestyle.
I hope more folks will join me & others, in nature stewardship & volunteering with local, to their area, grassroots organizations.

2024-06-18 20:47:50

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That's fucked up but nothing shady/shitty governments do these days surprises me too much now. I hope you & your family stay safe 🙏

2024-06-18 20:37:53

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I cannot stand toxic pesticides & herbicides. You know that I tend to roll with all natural solutions because it's better to work with nature & not against. I'm really lucky that almost all our neighbours are also anti-chemicals for their yards/gardens.

2024-06-18 20:06:39

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I'm rewilding our backyard. Longterm project. Only have it partially rewilded so far. There are lots of little flowering & edible plants growing lower to ground - amidst all the mixed tall grasses & grain plants 🥰

2024-06-18 17:15:31

May you make the best out of your day ✨️
Whether at work, at play or at rest 🙌
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2024-06-16 21:41:01

Please boost. Thanks, in advance ❤️🙌❤️
For those new to following me here, here's the #speech I delivered in #solidarity with #Gaza #Palestine in #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland in front of #BCgovernment legislature buildings
I call out the #farce of self declared true #democratic states in my speech & how our #governments tell us there ain't enough funds to help citizens but they can find billions to fund #EthnicCleansing of Palestinians.
https://youtu.be/ojlAbsd8x5Q?si=VgZ15m2sNRtkyMHH
#WarSurvivorsForCeasefire #BoycottIsraeliApartheid #HumanRights #StopWarMongers #ArrestWarCriminals #WarSurvivorsForPeace #ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael #AsianMastodon #USVietnamInvasionSurvivor #HelpRefugees #TootSEA #VietnamWarSurvivors

2024-06-15 03:21:15

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Please help my #CatRescuer kind friend in their time of personal medical needs. If you can help out, please do. If you can't donate, please help by boosting.
Thank you very much, in advance!