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Welcome to your February horoscopes! It’s Aquarius season, the stars are bustling with activity, and practically all planetary motion this month is direct. Aquarius is always ready for revolution. Aquarius is the fixed sign which rules the 11th house of community and revolution. Its lessons teach us about the causes we care about, and the ... Read More

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The Black American community has always contributed valuable help and solidarity to Asian people around the world. That report on caste in the US that I just reblogged was crafted by South Asian groups in conjunction with Black Lives Matter groups. I know that Black Americans have historically been in solidarity with Dalit-Bahujan and Adivasis from South Asia (Dr. Ambedkar, the Dalit revolutionary and the writer of the Indian Constitution, and W. E. B. Du Bois had written letters to each other). Black Americans have also always been in solidarity with Palestinians, campaigning against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Black Americans such as Muhammad Ali were against the Vietnam War. Black Americans supported the anti-colonial movements in India and Southeast Asia.

A lot of focus on Black/Asian solidarity spotlights the history of coalition building between Black American and East Asian-American groups in the US, but this history is actually incredibly diverse, and isn’t limited to Asian-Americans.

And what’s worth noting too is that despite pervasive antiblackness in Asian countries and within the Asian diaspora (with Asian immigrants importing their antiblack ideals to wherever they settle in the West), Black Americans have continued to act in solidarity with both Asian-American activists and oppressed, marginalized groups throughout the Asian continent.

Asian-American activism must make solidarity with Black Americans and Black Lives Matter an important priority. This history must be taught.

Syed Ahmed Jamal was ripped from his home and family by ICE agents last week. He has lived in this country for 30 years and has three children born here. If he is returned to Bangladesh he may face lethal violence. But none of this matters to immigration agents. Trump’s immigration policies have written a blank check to institutions like ICE to exert violence and act unjustly, often tearing families apart. This is racism. This is Islamophobia. This is xenophobia.

Read more: https://www.kajalmag.com/ice-immigration-arrest-kansas-bangladesh-syed-ahmed/

How does the 1980s British cult classic My Beautiful Laundrette translate into 2018's America? Nooreen and Aziz explore the bounds of this cross-racial queer drama and what a Kumail Nanjiani revamp might look like. On the site now.