It includes being spied on while participating in Muslim student association meetings and playing cricket and soccer at public parks in Brooklyn and Queens. Our collective community history since 9/11 includes being subjected to hate violence while praying at a Sikh gurdwara, attending school and spending time inside our own homes. It is about our people, our families, our communities, ourselves.įor 15 years, Muslim, South Asian and Arab communities have been in the midst of an unprecedented and relentless backlash. You are ready to build this resistance, to be on the frontlines, to give voice to the struggle.īecause this is personal. To my younger South Asian sister-activist-warriors: In its entirety, this letter is reprinted with permission from the author and the curators of Letters. This letter was published as part of Letters to the Revolution – an online platform where leading artists and activists from marginalized communities were asked to write letters of strength and focus in light of the new administration of the United States government. To read more letters like this one, please go to
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