2 years ago, i wrote an essay called sugar and then i held it close for a very long time. but today it’s out in the world! sugar is about sugar (the plant), sweetness (the feeling), and as usual, some commentary on colonization for spice. 🤩 read it here: https://t.co/gpv8dWJDIM
proud student organizer alum now in solidarity as staff with the stanford students against genocide and their continuation of the long and deeply rooted demand for divestment from apartheid 🇵🇸 isang bagsak!
The point isn’t to put up a front of “authenticity” or try to meet a narrow cultural nationalist conception of identity. The point is to reconcile with yourself so you can act and think from a position of confidence rather than uncertainty
If nothing else learn about your people’s relationship to imperialism (the Lenin kind). The point isn’t to be narrow nationalists but internationalists. Love of self is the basis for love for others, love for your own people is the basis for love of all peoples.
I feel like a lot of AsAm liberal waffling comes down to this individualistic insecurity-guilt complex around not being culturally connected. So I am here to say stop sabotaging yourself and just go do it in whatever way makes sense for you.
missing Yang Song heavy tonight. whose 2017 murder by police as a massage worker continually reminds us that state violence against communities of care goads individual violence and hate. we have to resist the impulse for a compassionless state to step in
There are millions of Asians who look like me, Anderson Paak, Guapdad, HER, etc. Your idea of Asian is exclusively East Asian (prob bc of media) but there are plenty of brown skinned Asians all throughout Southeast Asia. Asians do not have a monolithic look, the continent is huge
what life looks like while actively denying 5 million illegally-occupied palestinians the vaccine AND ramping up home demolitions so palestinians are homeless and vaccineless ❤️
Even though the mainstream media hesitates to call the murders of 8 Asian folks in Atlanta a racially targeted event, we know that this act of violence is racialized, gendered, and classed. #StopAsianHate & lift up low-income Asians, migrants, sex workers, trans & queer people!
The material basis of the racism Asian Americans know so well is imperialism in our homelands. The origin of the specific sexual violence Asian women face is in war, occupation & economic domination.