When the streets are stained sea blue, they are graven in time

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On making critical connections to the long legacies of intraracial and cross-racial Black and Asian American lesbian organizing and community building.

The kumquat’s sweetness was a disguise, and once it was disrobed in your mouth, the meat inside was sour enough to make your mouth buck, to wring your tongue of its language.

I really don’t like asking for help. Looking inward, perhaps it’s because I’m afraid to look weak, incompetent, or needy. I want to be seen as independent, capable, and fierce, and sometimes, I thi…

Nine artists talk zine fests, artistic influences, and the growing world of queer Asian zine makers.

A new episode of AAWW Radio with guests Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal, and Sameetah Agha

“Sex worker activism is always based in anti-police, anti-prison activism.”

Why care so much for someone who hasn’t done the same for you? As a feminist offering to the project of abolition, Saidiya Hartman reflects, “Care is the antidote to violence.”

Today we are celebrating the nine emerging writers who will receive fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in 2021.

Check out our “Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities” Reading List.

These four writers will spend the year crafting reversible poems of migration; bridging immigration, love and violence in fiction; chronicling a survivor’s journey through fragmentation; and tellin…

You want more than the count of their lives lost

“To occupy this space, this body, is disorienting and at times disturbing, because you are never quite sure whose gaze truly sees you beyond the projections and assumptions and desires.”…

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Queer Palestinian poetry, assassins of Seoul crime fiction, a history of post-1949 Chinese exile, fantastical Afghani-American fables, and the poetics of Filipino American food.

This marathon reading features a powerhouse collective of Asian American women. In the aftermath of the horrific murders in Atlanta, GA, we offer this space ...

Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Now as ever, we...

“As a writer, as someone who reveals their innermost selves linguistically, it’s lonely not to speak the same language as your parents.”

Tôi phải ở lại trong ngôn ngữ này, như đã trong một cơn mơ bổng, như đã trong một cú kéo chìm, một tự trói buộc, nhọc nhằn và vẫn ở đó, chút lửa nhen. | I have to reside in this language, as in a f…

On Yuri Kochiyama’s 100th birthday, her granddaughter Akemi Kochiyama reflects on her radical anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and internationalist politic and praxis

There is always a risk of misunderstanding in all kinds of conversations, but those risks are more acutely felt in translation, and even more acutely felt in translation that calls forth past and o…

On the carceral logic of the model minority myth

Nearly 30 years after its birth, reproductive justice remains a fundamental feminist framework addressing issues of bodily autonomy, equity, and liberation.

The 1982 strike led by immigrant women earned better workplace conditions and benefits for New York City’s garment workers.

The art of queer diaspora, surreal stories of contemporary China, journeys into the history of the Philippine-American War, and the story of the subcontinent through bodies of water.

The author of Sour Heart talks about channeling childhood in her fiction, balancing the soft with the scratchy in her stories, and getting tokenized as an Asian American writer.

This marathon reading features a powerhouse collective of Asian American women. In the aftermath of the horrific murders in Atlanta, GA, we offer this space ...

You spoke through the impossible and you teach us once more how a story, through a faithful, stubborn kind of continuation, can be like a collective strength.

a sunburn the shape of the settler dictator’s face on everyone who will claim / FREE PALESTINE’s earth but not FREE PALESTINE’s skin

She is girl. She is gravel. She is grabbed. She is grabbed like handfuls of gravel.

This is a poem about fire.

“There is something inherently powerful in adoptees speaking up and telling our own stories. And I will always believe that to be true.”

Join us for a special reading and conversation by novelist Esmé Weijun Wang, whose bestselling new essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias (Gray Wolf 2019) is a “riveting, honest, and courage…

Poet Don Mee Choi discusses the myth of fluency and what happens when translation is allowed to be hysterical

“Giving women voice” does not necessarily mean they will be heard or believed. From feminist refusal in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life to the quiet resistance of comfort women statues.

On translators’ labor and invisibility

“There is something inherently powerful in adoptees speaking up and telling our own stories. And I will always believe that to be true.”