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Love 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....
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Conversations with My Father
白左 & 圣母：“Libtard” and “Holy Mom” My parents are Chinese immigrants, and they love Trump. It doesn’t matter if he calls COVID-19 a “China Virus,” blowing the dog-whistle to spur on anti-Asian...
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‘We’re not just protecting the community, but also each other’
Lily Deng, a Chinese American computer science student at Queens College, still remembers the visceral reaction that prompted her to begin patrolling. She had seen a news story about an elderly Asian...
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France and Friends: Your Anti-Muslim Racism is Showing
A lousy conversation that I think about too often took place at one of my previous jobs in downtown Manhattan. There was an elderly man who worked in my department – a little weird but relatively...
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In Search of a Good Fight
On the way out of Yemen Cafe in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood, Rabyaah Al-Thaibani spotted a man leaning in the doorframe of an apartment building, wearing a sweatshirt with the words “Yemen We Go...
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From New York, In Solidarity
Hate has no place here. New York man charged with hate crime in Asian American attack that bystanders watched without helping. Hate has no place here. Victim of Anti-Asian Harassment in Subway Says No...
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The Nakba is Present
(Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, a new book by former Open City Fellow by Sumaya Awad. This excerpt is part of a series of writing about Palestine,...
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Coming Out of the Palestinian Closet
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a series of writing about Palestine, written by Palestinian American writers, as a response to the recent escalation of conflict in Palestine, that started when...
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After Javon Johnson*: When the Cancer Comes
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a series of writing about Palestine and Palestinians, written by Palestinian American writers, as a response to the recent escalation of conflict in Palestine,...
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Ma, You’re Perfect
to my dear ma to my dear ma “After my divorce, I stopped buying groceries during the day. I would try to go when there were no people around, it became a quest to see how quickly I could get my items...
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