Just as the public health crisis intensifies, the invisible labour of care risks further erasure.
Migrant domestic workers find themselves at the frontlines of the epidemic under increasingly unforgiving working conditions.
Yuli's story must not become a mere footnote in Hong Kong’s struggle for liberation.
How the current movement in Hong Kong affects migrant domestic workers and their continued battle for equality.
The coronavirus
Economy, culture, and labor in a time of pandemic.
‘Chinese Virus,’ World Market
The movements of the novel coronavirus are mimicking the pathways of the 21st-century global market.
The coronavirus is entangled with a deep-seated racism, where fear becomes a license for xenophobia.
Amplifying xenophobia in the diaspora may make the novel coronavirus harder to fight.
Neither crisis nor incarceration should vindicate the exploitation of women's labor.
Diseases do not discriminate based on language, national identity or political stance.
On labor
Workers' struggles are essential to our movement.
‘I am willing to take a bullet for you. Are you willing to go on strike for me?’
The government won’t listen. The police keep cracking down. So Hong Kong protesters are trying a new tactic: They’re forming unions.
Hong Kong’s movement must stop ignoring migrant workers
Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers are Hongkongers too, but their demands are not being heard.
Non-sovereign revolutions
Building power between communities, beyond the nation-state.
Non-sovereign revolutions: Thinking across Puerto Rico and Hong Kong—Part two
What futures, ideals, and models can we look to in a place without nation-state sovereignty?
Non-sovereign revolutions: Thinking across Puerto Rico and Hong Kong—Part one
What futures, ideals, and models can we look to in a place without nation-state sovereignty?
Facing down the right
Refusing the exploitative 'solidarity' of the global right.
Facing down the protests’ right-wing turn
Lack of ideological debate allows existing conservative structures to seep into the deepest core of the movement.
Born in an authoritarian country, you can still become an anti-establishment punk.
Hong Kong's right-wing localists seek Western intervention and blame mainlanders for the city's economic precarity.
Solidarity with Uyghurs must not be weaponized by Hong Kong's pro-independence, right-wing localists.
We must critically confront the injustices of Britain's past and present.
On liberation
What is the meaning of freedom in a dying city?
Between Washington and Beijing
Hong Kong is caught within a historical and geopolitical trap.
If our home is so wonderful, then what are we revolting for?
Succumbing to Cold War rhetoric narrows our avenues for insurrection.
How can this movement be sustained, and how can it win?
Hong Kong should not seek to restore the past, but instead to create anew.
Across borders
Navigating Hong Kong's geopolitical dilemma.
Can our ‘global city’ offer transnational solidarity?
Oppressed peoples of the world must stand together.
Have we actually put a revolutionary spirit into practice?
We must carefully draw a line between pro-Hong Kong solidarity and anti-Chinese racism.
The Chinese and Canadian states are part of a global system of violence.
Like Hong Kongers, Goans were never offered a choice about their future.
On the ground
Histories that shape Hong Kong's struggle.
How real estate hegemony looms behind Hong Kong’s unrest
An interview with Alice Poon.
Hong Kong political strikes: a brief history
For Hong Kong, general strikes are nothing new.
The margins
Voices from outside Hong Kong's political mainstream.
The left’s role in the Hong Kong uprising
Interview with Avery Ng, chairman of the League of Social Democrats.
Hong Kong's treatment of Yuli Riswati is a call for all of us to do better.
Hidden behind Hong Kong's civilized image, domestic workers experience myriad forms of violence.
Yuli's story must not become a mere footnote in Hong Kong’s struggle for liberation.
Is removing child protestors from their families really for their 'well-being,' or is it another form of political domination?
Nativism must be confronted in the movement for Hong Kong's self-determination. In its place, we need radical new imaginations of justice.
Sex workers have been central to the fight against police brutality—long before the anti-extradition protests.
What does it mean—and how does it feel—to be a leftist in the movement? Building power from the affect of dejection.
When 'housewives strike, tyranny will fall.'
The diaspora
Obstacles and opportunities of distance.
Neither close nor far away: on solidarity from afar
Distance allows us to imagine what this revolution could be.
Notes on a New York rally for Hong Kong
Examining inconsistencies in free speech, protest and policing.
The 'sixth demand'
What would it mean to disband the Hong Kong Police Force?
How to abolish the Hong Kong police
Thinking through the 'sixth demand.'
Thinking through capitalism, policing, and incarceration in Hong Kong.
The 'rule of law' is nothing more than a colonial myth.
Critiques of the Hong Kong Police Force may be the beginning of an abolitionist politics.
The police cannot be politically neutral—because the social order they maintain is not neutral.
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