We Don’t Need to Investigate ICE—We Need to Dismantle It
ICE detention centers are part of the prison industrial complex and as such have to be included in our calls for full scale abolition. TW: religious discrimination, violence, ICE In late August, Muslim advocacy groups revealed that Muslim ICE detainees had been
The Sanitized Politics of Social Media Influencing
There has been a concerning proliferation of influencers who have taken social justice movements as an opportunity to center themselves. By Hareem Khan What’s pervasive about colorism is its mundanity. Its sly, subjugating gaze. Its violence is enacted and concealed by its quotidian
Never Have I Ever…Seen A Show So Casteist and Racist
Kaling's 'Never Have I Ever' is more interested in packaging upper-caste Hindu American identity for the white gaze than she is in authentic storytelling. TW/CW: this article contains spoilers for Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever”, and mentions Islamophobia, anti-Dalitness, anti-Blackness, anti-Semitism,
Zionism and Hindutva, Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Hindutva and Zionism share a common passion to build ethnonationalist states, making them two sides of the same coin. TW/CW: This essay contains descriptions Zionism, Hindutva, anti-Kashmiri and anti-Palestinian rhetoric and violence, and mentions r/pe. By Rimsha Syed Friends, family, and comrades: It is
As Delhi Burns, Modi Watches
The Delhi pogrom is not a “clash” between pro- and anti-CAA protesters. It is a pogrom aimed to ethnically cleanse the city of the minority Muslim population. CW: Pogrom, Ethnic Cleansing The latest pogrom of the Narendra Modi administration, which has left