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Andolan Photograph
An office warming party to celebrate their new space. Andolan went from meeting in Nahar's kitchen to sharing an office space with DRUM (whose co-founder had also won the Union Square Award that same year). They started writing grants and fundraising, and in 2003, were able to secure our own office space in Jackson Heights--a place for workers to feel at home, to meet, to organize.

Andolan Article
Article from Marie Claire about an Andolan worker's case

Andolan Brochure
First Andolan brochure

LGBTQ+ AAPI Pride Day of Visibility Proclamation
Proclamation from Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf declaring June 1, 2019 as Asian American and Pacific Islander Pride Day of Visibility.

Oral History Interview with Mimi Mondal
Mimi Mondal is an Indian speculative fiction writer based in New York and the first writer from India to have been nominated for any Hugo Award. She is a Dalit, Indian woman.

Oral History Interview with Sherry Singh
"Sherry Singh," a DACA recipient, is an aide at a public school in Queens. Here, she tells her story of coming to the United States "backtrack" from Guyana at the age of eight to reunite with her mother in 1996. This interview has been edited for clarity and to protect the vulnerable.

Mahaboob Ben Ali and His Chili Bowl: A Story of Family and Identity in the U Street Corridor
Honors thesis submission by Sonali Mirpuri entitled "Mahaboob Ben Ali and His Chili Bowl: A Story of Family and Identity in the U Street Corridor", submitted to the Georgetown University History Department on May 4, 2020. The thesis describes the history of Ben Ali—an Indo-Trinidadian immigrant to the U.S. who descended from indentured laborers—and his landmark Washington, D.C.

Urooj Arshad Oral History Interview
Urooj Arshad is a co-founder of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity and the first LGBTQ+ Muslim Retreat. In the oral history, Urooj describes growing up in Pakistan and Illinois, finding LGBTQ south asian community during college, and ongoing activism to resist islamophobia and queerphobia.

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Oral History Interview with Anjali R.
Anjali R. is the founder of Parivar, a trans and queer south asian space in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the oral history, Anjali describes growing up in India, exploring different permutations of gender expression while moving throughout the U.S. and Canada, and navigating transphobia within queer south asian spaces.

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