South Asian
Stop normalizing racism towards South Asians
February 3, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer Content warning: descriptions of anti-South Asian rhetoric. Whether it’s “taking our jobs,” “ruining the economy,” or not “assimilating” to western norms, immigrants are increasingly being used as an excuse for our “crumbling” society. This is compounded by the normalization of racism towards South Asians. Such scapegoating and racist rhetoric has risen and continues to solidify itself as an abhorrent norm in day-to-day life. Though it’s nothing new, as seen even in 1914 with the Komagata Maru incident when hundreds of Indian immigrants were turned away from Vancouver’s ports — history has a cruel way of…
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Dil Ka invites audiences into the intimacy of a heated kitchen
March 15, 2024By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Writer and filmmaker Lee Nisar sums up her first full-length play as combining “the power of buzzcuts and biryani into one unapologetically queer story.” Dil Ka has been years in the making, with…
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Children Who Dance in the Rain highlights privilege as a “double-edged sword”
June 7, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Content warning: mention of sexual abuse, sexual abuse by family member. It’s been several years since I’ve been as moved by an illustrated book as I was turning through the pages of Children Who Dance…
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