Watching “The ‘Other’ Love Story” Was The Perfect Way To Kick Off 2017
By Guest Contributors: Lakshmi Gandhi (@lakshmigandhi) and Asha Sundararaman (@mixedtck) As soon as we saw this Autostraddle’s article about Roopa Rao’s…
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Against a Deracinated Discourse
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya At a post-election event in Boston, Senator Bernie Sanders uttered the following: “It’s not good enough…
In Search of a More Authentic Metaphor for the Asian American Struggle
Guest Contributor: Dr. Keith Chan This article appears as a response to a recent guest writing by Mark Tseng Putterman that…
Against Antiblackness As Metaphor
Guest Contributor: Mark Tseng Putterman (@tsengputterman) Asian American Twitter has been abuzz this week with news that Tilda Swinton singled…
Designated Survivor Recap: Season 1, Episode 10, ‘The Oath’
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) If I ever have to deal with an assassination attempt moments after uncovering major threats…
‘Designated Survivor’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 9, ‘The Blueprint’
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) Wait, the fictional Congress in Designated Survivor has 162 registered independents?
Trauma Nation in the Era of Trump: Abandoned, but not Alone
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya “They sold us out,” a friend texted me on election night, after an avowed racist, misogynist,…
5 Lessons I Learned While Protesting a Trump Rally
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya “I need to pee, and I need a cookie,” I told my friend as we drove…
The Unbearable Silence of the World in the Face of Those Whose Lives Were Taken
By Guest Contributor: Ammara Khursheed July 6th 2016: At work, I check Facebook, my newsfeed is flooded with images of the…
Why and How Asian Americans Must Mobilize for Black Lives
By Guest Contributor: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (@KaelaMeiShing) Black lives matter. Full stop. Any discussion of police violence against American lives must…
The Long Road Ahead: Why Black Lives Matter For a Muslim American Woman
By Guest Contributor: Anisa Khalifa (@anisakhalifa_) After the killings of this past week, it feels on some level as if…
Dear Black Folks
By Guest Contributor: Stacy G Dear Black folks I don’t know what it’s like to question authority because I had…