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Activist research that conducts social investigation and analysis can be the key first step in organising at the grassroots and movement building. This paper critically analyses two research reports titled 'The Foreign Exchange of Hate' (Sabrang/Coalition against Genocide 2002) and 'In Bad Faith' (Awaaz South Asia Watch 2004) produced by progressive activists situated in progressive mobilisations in the North American and British South Asian diasporas. This research was amongst the earliest to systematically investigate and expose the transnational networks and activities of Hindu nationalism. Drawing on the scholarship of Aziz Choudry, I discuss key influences, goals, impacts and costs of these activist research projects. The analysis offer situated insights into the relationship between activist research and movement-building in the context of collective resistance to Hindu nationalism in Eurocentric, liberal multicultural societies.

Finding Asian Americans during the 2020 presidential election requires us to take up the paradoxical task of looking for what is not there. Elections stage our national narratives, resurrecting or revising them to define who we imagine ourselves to be. To be left out of the election narrative is to be neglected in the national imagination. This article contrasts the outsized effect of COVID-19 on Asian American populations with our near absence from election news coverage and neglect by presidential campaigns. Rather than remediate national narratives, I turn to the work of photographer Corky Lee to visualize Asian Americans outside of those narratives and to contest the assumption of homogenous national time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with artist Hong-An Truong collected from 2018 announce rallies and calls to advance and unify the University of North Carolina is presented. Topics include talks about nationalism as current moment, how are you feeling about the nation; and considered desire for Asian Americans to be invisible.