On the one hand, teachers are tasked with upholding the program’s language allocation polices, which generally endorse strict language separation as a means to “protect” the minoritized language. In this reflection, Aubrey reveals a tension that many dual-language educators face when planning for language in their classrooms. In this moment of clarity, I began to wonder about the real risks for my students if they were never exposed to the benefits of translanguaging as a resource for their language and literacy learning. In that moment, I realized I had only been activating half of my linguistic repertoire, while my student had been leveraging all of hers, converting the English verb tag into a grammatically correct “Spanglish” phrase to express her outrage that a classmate had tagged her in the playground game. Frustrated, the student replied, “Me taGÓ, like in tag, Maestra.” (Originally published on jyotigupta.One day at recess, a distraught five-year-old approached me and proclaimed angrily, “Fulanito me tagó.” Confused, I attempted to understand her meaning: “¿Te tocó?” (“He touched you?”) She shook her head. Here’s to calling out the hypocrisy of gendered beauty… to leveling the playing field, one word at a time. The media maker claims to be the chest hair waxer of India’s leading male actor, and “now also makes Youtube videos.” Varun Thakur’s brand can be found at (Excuse his french– Incidentally, gandu means a-hole in hindi. V-Day folks showed us several years ago, the long list of words for the vagina, didn’t they? Their tasteful use of the otherwise crass-sounding term gote, or “nuts” testifies to a careful abandon for political correctness in naming men’s body parts. And here’s a half-assed, oh-i’m-so-cute-with-those-dimples-and-blinks video of him stating that as a film celebrity he has no choice but to “sell dreams like this…” Here’s the link just in case you missed the misogyny. They owed him this virtual poke, or wag of the finger for his continued endorsement of Emami’s Fair and Handsome that began several years ago. Oh, and the entry of comical sound double of Bollywood living legend Shah Rukh Khan (SRK). (I must admit, though, that I am not a big fan of the homophobic ending.) And somewhere along the way is the promise to convert dark dangly bits to glowing fair in under 15 seconds. An arranged marriage boy-meets-girl scene follows, ending with a silver-haired could-be mother-in-law shaking her head disapprovingly, “Kaale hain!” Meaning, they are dark / black. I have not felt it in my life.” As he continues to share his stories of rejection, he talks about the time when his parents tried to find him a suitable wife.
About 6 seconds in, there’s Mukesh squeezing neon yellow foam balls, complete with smiley faces and all, complaining to the audience, “What is sex.
Satire and subversion, comedy and insight follow in this jingly Bollywood and perfect spot-like production from producers Culture Machine. It begins with a introduction of 27-year old male “ Mukesh” speaking to the camera. It’s here, a witty culture jam from India! Calling out our worldwide, multi-billion dollar fairness cream industry and its unfortunate consumers.
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