The truth is that #StopAsianHate is incapable of reckoning with the historical and ongoing role of the U.S. government in perpetuating anti-Asian violence both within and outside its borders in its violent, insatiable quest for global hegemony. CW: anti-AANHPI violence, sexual violence, military and police violence against BIPOC By Elizabeth Tang I don’t like the...
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World War III: The Rest Of The World Has Nothing To Do With It
Keep your hypothetical war. We have enough threatened destruction of our own on the horizon and are no longer under coercion by colonial occupation. By Michelle Chikaonda My home country of Malawi was a protectorate of the United Kingdom—then known as Nyasaland—until July 1964. Our neighboring countries of Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe were also British...
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Kashmir: Caught between Hindu Nationalism and Freedom
Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has escalated forces and has created a vacuum of mystery around what exactly they could be doing in Kashmir. TW: mention of sexual assault and ethnic cleansing By Manaal Farooqi Kashmir is a region well known to those in the northern part of South Asia. It’s a contested region since it...
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The United States War with Iran is a Reproductive Justice Issue
The reproductive justice framework necessarily compels us to be anti-imperialist. By Lily Bolourian The framework of reproductive justice tells us that when we are looking to plan our families and choose our destinies, we have the inherent “human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have...