Our Stories
An Introduction to South Asian America
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Chapter 5: Identity & Equality

Explore this chapter:
• Brown
• What Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Wrote to Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois
• Queer South Asians in America
• A Very, Very Brief History of a Desi Transgender Man
• Jahajee Sisters
• Margins, or on Not Being with Most of You, Most of the Time
• SAADA's Archival Creators Fellowship Program

Brown
By Radha Modi
Page In the book For further exploration
173 "Body Image" Inset Discover more by Ushshi Rahman at @ushshi.
175 See the image in SAADA's archival collections.
What Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Wrote to Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois
By Manan Desai
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178 See the image and learn more about Black Desi Secret History at blackdesisecrethistory.org
180 See the image and read more from Manan Desai's and Tizarat Gill's "H.G. Mudgal, Harlem Editor" in TIDES.
181 "Dalits and the Persistance of Caste" Inset Read more about caste in the U.S. in "Survey of Caste in the United States" by Equality Labs
Queer South Asian Americans
By Mala Nagarajan and Sasha Wijeyeratne
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183 "Queer" Inset Learn about more terms and definitions from the LGBTQIA Resource Center
186 See the image in SAADA's archival collections
186 "SALGA and the India Day Parade" Inset Read the rest of Arun Venugopal's "South Asian LGBT Community Marches in India Day Parade" for WNYC News.
A Very, Very Brief History of a Desi Transgender Man
By Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
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192 See the image in SAADA's Road Trips Project.
193 "Alok Vaid-Menon and a Transfeminine Future" Inset Read the rest of Vrinda Jagota's "Alok Vaid-Menon on Building a Transfeminine Future" in Broadly.
Jahajee Sisters
By Suzanne C. Persard
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196 "Bolo Bahen! Speak, Sister!" Inset Read the rest of Taij Kumarie Moteelall's "Walking Our New Road into Being: Women of the South Asian Diaspora on Self-Awareness and Empowerment" from Bolo Bahen! Speak, Sister!.
197 Further Discovery Discover more about the Jahjee Sisters organization at jahajeesisters.org.
Margins, or on Not Being with Most of You, Most of the Time
By V. V. Ganeshananthan
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199 See the image and discover more art by Chamindika Wanduragala at chamindika.com
200 "Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha" Inset Learn more about Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's work at brownstargirl.org.
SAADA's Archival Creators Fellowship Program
Page In the book For further exploration
202 Read Dhanya Addanki's series of fellowship articles published in TIDES:
203 Read Gaiutra Bahadur's series of fellowship articles published in TIDES:
203 Read Mustafa Saifuddin's series of fellowship articles published in TIDES:
204 An Oral History Interview with Anjali R. Discover the rest of the Mustafa Saifuddin's conducted oral histories and fellowship exhibit at saada.org/qbf.
205 Discover the entirety of John Boopalan's oral history and the rest of Dhanya Addanki's conducted oral histories and fellowship exhibit at saada.org/dalithonor.
207 Discover the entirety of "Sherry Singh's" oral history and the rest of the Gaiutra Bahadur's conducted oral histories and fellowship exhibit at saada.org/thethingswecarried.