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Once a Maoist dry-goods business, the store has become a hub for Asian American culture and community

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Translating Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s My Poems Are Not for Your Ad Campaign

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Moving toward liberation through music in South Africa

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The limits of empathizing with your occupier

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Gossip and care in the Indo American community in Queens

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Gardaya’s letters offer glimpses into his fruitless search for love and acceptance in America

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Transgressing spatial and temporal bounds through the image

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A researcher visits the UK National Archives in search of Malaya.

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A Filipina immigrant academic mourns and celebrates the aftermath of 1898.

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The layered histories of Black and Asian communities in the Queens neighborhood.

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Our language can only approximate the horror of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

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On Joma Sison and Julie de Lima, the Philippines’ most famous leftist couple

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A Filipino and a Chinese girl, both comfort women, find friendship in a piece of critical fabulation

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How learning a third language became a place of reconciliation for my mother tongues.

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How translating the writings of a former Malayan Communist Party member changed me

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An examination of Malayan Emergency fiction’s depiction of Sinophone, Anglophone, and Indigenous points of view

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Three artistic works, recently showcased in Kuala Lumpur and beyond, suggest why it matters that we think about the history of the Malayan Emergency in concert with the contemporary COVID-19 and climate emergencies

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Imagining the future through words and through kin

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etc.books founder Akiko Matsuo on building a space for feminism and solidarity in Tokyo

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Once a Maoist dry-goods business, the store has become a hub for Asian American culture and community

Essays

The layered histories of Black and Asian communities in the Queens neighborhood.

Essays

Translating Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s My Poems Are Not for Your Ad Campaign

Essays

Our language can only approximate the horror of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

Essays

Moving toward liberation through music in South Africa

Essays

On Joma Sison and Julie de Lima, the Philippines’ most famous leftist couple

Essays

The limits of empathizing with your occupier

Essays

A Filipino and a Chinese girl, both comfort women, find friendship in a piece of critical fabulation

Essays

Gossip and care in the Indo American community in Queens

Essays

How learning a third language became a place of reconciliation for my mother tongues.

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Gardaya’s letters offer glimpses into his fruitless search for love and acceptance in America

Essays

How translating the writings of a former Malayan Communist Party member changed me

Essays

Transgressing spatial and temporal bounds through the image

Essays

An examination of Malayan Emergency fiction’s depiction of Sinophone, Anglophone, and Indigenous points of view

Essays

A researcher visits the UK National Archives in search of Malaya.

Essays

Three artistic works, recently showcased in Kuala Lumpur and beyond, suggest why it matters that we think about the history of the Malayan Emergency in concert with the contemporary COVID-19 and climate emergencies

Essays

Imagining the future through words and through kin

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A Filipina immigrant academic mourns and celebrates the aftermath of 1898.

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etc.books founder Akiko Matsuo on building a space for feminism and solidarity in Tokyo