South Asians for Abolition: Diasporic Strategies and Conversations
In Part Two of a discussion on South Asian diasporic organizing in the movement for abolition, Mon M. and Sharmin Hossain reflect on their histories and positionalities as South Asian abolitionists....
View ArticleTeenage Diaspora: A Conversation with Jamie Marina Lau
Jamie Marina Lau is a multidisciplinary writer and artist, which is apparent in her debut novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island. It is my new favorite book about art scams and boasts lyrical prose,...
View ArticleLove Bridges Religious Divides for 2 Desi Dancers
I When Aaliya Islam told her parents that she and her fiancee were buying a house in New Jersey and moving in together, her parents requested that they get married first before making such a move....
View ArticleConstellations of Care: On Small Scale Solidarities
What does Asian American and Black feminist solidarity look like on the smallest, most intimate scales? In the midst of this summer’s uprisings for Black life, a car accident and formative passings in...
View ArticleSonia Faleiro and the Yearning for Truth
Editor’s Note: The following feature includes mentions of sexual violence, rape, and murder. Please take care while reading. There are so many ways for a woman to die in India. She can die in a...
View ArticleBlood, Guts, and Glory : A Conversation with Mary H.K. Choi
Over the past two decades, Mary H.K. Choi has written comic books, hosted podcasts, starred in public health PSAs, interviewed Rihanna, put La Croix in the New York Times, got sober, and introduced...
View ArticleTransfigured Landscapes: A Conversation with Te-Ping Chen
In Te-Ping Chen’s debut collection, Land of Big Numbers, rural airplane inventors collide with party bureaucrats, a neighborhood gets swept up in a magical fruit craze that unearths painful collective...
View ArticleTrans People Have Always Been: A Conversation with Kay Ulanday Barrett
For Kay Ulanday Barrett, poetry is not a luxury. It is an ode to aunties who “measure rice by palm lines.” It is a love letter to trans and queer kin for whom “dance floors have always been altar.” It...
View ArticleThe Past Is Always Still There: Luisa A. Igloria
When poet Luisa A. Igloria was five years old, her mother Susie gifted her with a copy of the short story collection Magnificence and Other Stories (published in 1960, a year before Igloria was born)...
View Article‘The Shape of this Moment’: In Conversation with Avni Doshi
We’re in the midst of a pandemic. We both have homes in India. From Birmingham, England, I ask Avni Doshi–New Jersey-born, Dubai-based–what’s been difficult. On a practical level, what’s been...
View ArticleClaiming Unwellness: An Interview with Mimi Khúc
A few weeks ago, I found a box on my doorstep. It was a simple thing, white and made of cardboard, with frayed edges. On its side it had three words: Open in Emergency. This box and its contents are...
View ArticleCelebrating 100 Years of Yuri Kochiyama: Akemi Kochiyama on Her Grandmother’s...
“My priority would be to fight against polarization. Because this whole society is so polarized. I think there are so many issues that all people of color should come together on, and there are forces...
View ArticleA Safe Layer of Air Near Reality: An Interview with Serang Chung and Soje
Editor’s Note: The following conversation between Serang Chung and Soje is part of a notebook of writing on the theme Nurse. Read other pieces in the collection gathered here. This conversation was...
View ArticleMy Battle Against Myself: An Interview with Nurse and Mother Susan Jung
Editor’s Note: The following conversation between Jack Jung and his mother, Susan Jung, was originally conducted in Korean, and has been translated into English by Jack Jung and edited for length....
View ArticleCoalition In the Imaginary: A Conversation with Divya Victor
Divya Victor prefaces her new poetry collection, Curb, with four names—Balbir Singh Sodhi, Navroze Mody, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, Sunando Sen. By invoking the names of these four Indian American victims...
View ArticleWhat Are You Looking At? Striking a Pose in Taiwan: The Past and Future of...
Editor’s Note: The following interview between Ta-wei Chi, Hsin-Hui Lin, and Ariel Chu is part of a notebook Queer Time, co-edited by Ta-wei Chi and Ariel Chu, which gathers contemporary queer...
View ArticleConfronting the Author: A Conversation with Carlina Duan
Carlina Duan’s second collection, Alien Miss, begins with a section of poems revolving around Alien Miss, a figure seemingly formed by a composite of voices—familial, historical, magical,...
View ArticleA Narrative Form of Preservation: An Interview with Kat Chow
“I conjure you from the underworld, part taxidermy, part ghost,” Kat writes to her mother in Seeing Ghosts. “I spin you out of myself and into something else.” The act of preservation and a desire for...
View ArticleProtected: What Is Wrong with Men? An Interview with Jeff Chon
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View ArticleDroning Across Postcolonial Borders: An Interview with Alex Quicho
I love to complain about how awful ~the internet~ is but am also known for having ~very online~ literacy. I mediate that apparent contradiction by bemoaning and mindlessly agreeing to surveillance...
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