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Solidarity with the Hunger and Labor Strike by ICE Detainees at Delaney Hall

Asian American histories of immigration are inseparable from the histories of African and Latin American immigrants suffering and fighting against the same imperial world order.

BY THE ILLUME MAGAZINE EDITORIAL TEAM

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  • How to Drop a Lit Match on a Paper Trail

    Precedents like birthright citizenship hardly feel like paths to sanctuary when they’re the exact paper trails that any given administration can soak in gasoline to expunge the people it’s always considered foreign.

    BY KARISSA KORMAN

  • Putting the Politics Back in ‘Asian American’

    The ways in which Kim Sae-Ron and Sulli were both exploited for entertainment and subsequently discarded by the public, the nation, and perhaps even the support systems in their respective lives, are two sides of the same coin presenting one of Korea’s most pressing issues today.

    BY JULIANA GEORGE

    Aegukga

    “How else to describe this but immortal? Forget the war that birthed you and find redemption in a translation that matters.”

    BY ASHLEY WHEE

  • Achilles

    “what am i but the tropical breeze passing through the tree line. bare feet meandering through short blades of grass”

    BY ryan siddhaRTH

Conversational Ruptures

The New Yorker’s Victor Guan on Imbuing Culture in Graphic Design

Victor Guan, assistant art director at The New Yorker, discusses imbuing Chinese American lifestyles, traditions, and meanings into his design practice, and the art of documenting memory.

BY ENZO NGUYEN

Conversational Ruptures: Decolonizing Taste Buds with @papayapetite

Beyond recipes, Lao American creator @papayapetite’s content invites her audience to reflect on food history, cultural erasure, and colonialism.

BY VIENNA CHANG

Literary Arts

Anger looks good on the both of us

BY KEVIN SEN ZHANG

generic diasporic poem

BY JULIANA GEORGE