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I created this newsletter as a space to write nonfiction essays about topics I care about, including climate justice, Long COVID and disability justice, prison abolition and psychiatric abolition, caste abolition and anti-Hindutva movements, anti-Blackness in Asian communities, Palestinian liberation, women’s sports, and more.

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  • Graphic with a gradient from light to dark blue with a very transparent map of Asia in the background. The text "Anti-Blackness in Asia: The Hyper-Criminalization of Blackness" is superimposed over the map in all caps.
    The hyper-criminalization of Blackness
    By deepa • June 11, 2025
    Part V in my series on anti-Blackness in Asia
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  • Graphic with a gradient from light yellow to light pink with a very transparent map of Asia in the background. The text "Anti-Blackness in Asia: The Destruction and Devaluation of Black Existence" is superimposed over the map in all caps.
    The destruction and devaluation of Black existence
    By deepa • June 4, 2025
    Part IV in my series on anti-Blackness in Asia
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  • Graphic with a gradient from red to orange with a very transparent map of Asia in the background. The text "Anti-Blackness in Asia: Histories of Black communities in Asia" is superimposed over the map in all caps.
    Histories of Black communities in Asia
    By deepa • May 27, 2025
    Part III of my series on anti-Blackness in Asia
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  • Graphic with a gradient from green to yellow with a very transparent map of Asia in the background. The text "Anti-Blackness in Asia: Dynamics intertwined with Asian anti-Blackness" is superimposed over the map in all caps.
    Dynamics intertwined with Asian anti-Blackness
    By deepa • May 20, 2025
    Part II of my series on anti-Blackness in Asia
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  • Graphic with a gradient from purple to orange with a very transparent map of Asia in the background. The text "Anti-Blackness in Asia: Identifying Blackness and Anti-Blackness in Asia" is superimposed over the map in all caps.
    Identifying Blackness and anti-Blackness in Asia
    By deepa • May 13, 2025
    Part I in my series on anti-Blackness in Asia
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  • Graphic with a gradient from light green to light blue with a gray map of Asia in the background. The text "On anti-Blackness in Asian communities: An introduction" is superimposed over the map in all caps.
    On anti-Blackness in Asian communities
    By deepa • May 6, 2025
    An introduction to a new series
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  • LGBTQIA+ People Aren't Going Back- Sins Invalid 10 Principles of Disability Justice In ASL
    LGBTQIA2S+ People Are Not Going Back: Queer Disability Justice
    By deepa • December 3, 2024
    Last week, Julia Serano, activist, musician, and author of several books including the foundational Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of…
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  • Don't stop fighting for a free Palestine by Deepa Sivarajan
    Don't stop fighting for a free Palestine
    By deepa • October 7, 2024
    A (rough) guide on how to join the fight
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  • Alyssa Thomas of the Connecticut Sun taking a free throw with one hand under the ball and the other on the side.
    Five WNBA stars to watch in the 2024 playoffs
    By deepa • September 24, 2024
    The last (for now) in my series on women’s basketball in the U.S.
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