The following is a transcript of the first-half of our roundtable panel at the 2025 Association for Asian Studies conference in “Columbus, Ohio, USA.” The panel was entirely comprised of members of Asian-Indigenous Relations. We are not including our close reading of Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel in the transcript, as it was done in relation…

How can labour research employ workers’ inquiry to account for the capitalist settler-colonial relations defined by the connection that labour exploitation has to private property and colonial dispossession? In July 2023, Steff Huì Cí Ling circulated Art Workers’ Inquiry for Decolonial Potential, a workers’ inquiry inviting art workers to respond to questions about worker identity,…

Dearest Ji-Youn, It was such a pleasant surprise when I came across your writing about asian settler complicity. I had spent a lot of my undergraduate time thinking that I was alone in my complicated feelings about my positionality as a settler of color: I had met other people online who critiqued boba liberals, but…

Dear Ty, It was so nice meeting you last year. How fitting it is that we met each other in the context of two research projects aptly named “Transnationally Indigenous” and “Indigeneity in a Global Context”? Who would’ve thought that a member of We Wai Kai First Nation and a half Bidayuh-half Hakka girl from Ottawa…