Building a cultural initiative is one thing. Sustaining it is another.
We’re looking for four people to join BlindianProject’s advisory board, bringing experience across arts, philanthropy, finance and education.
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Two works from my ongoing Diagram Studies appear in Mute Points: Wandering Reflections on Afro-Asian Solidarity by Kandis Williams, published by Montez Press
An essay examining the tensions, contradictions and limits of Afro-Asian solidarity.
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I began making these diagrams to visualise complex ideas for myself and the BlindianProject community.
They’ve become a way of thinking in public, tracing how power moves through everyday life.
Explore Diagram Studies:
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Reconstruction Lab · Reading 002
We’re reading @NedBertz on Indian Ocean cinema, race, diaspora and nationalism in urban Tanzania.
Read. Annotate. Think with us.
Come with questions. Leave something in the margins.
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A viral post about "wifey material" started the conversation.
The question of who gets close to whom turned out to be much older.
New Bandung Banter: WIFEY
MATERIAL ™
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A short piece on a ongoing project which seeks to understand trajectories of recent African migration to Mumbai, and the contributions of Africans to the city's economic + cultural landscapes. Thanks to @AsianStudies @MIASA_UG for support humanitiesacrossborders.org/…
BLINDIANPROJECT ARCHIVE
EAST AFRICA COLLECTION — ENTRY 003
OBJECT TYPE: Formal Family Portrait
LOCATION: Kampala, Uganda
DATE: c. 1960s
SUBJECT: Serwano W. Kulubya
STATUS: Recovered from domestic family archive
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Recovered from a family home in Nankulabye, Kampala.
Every few months, we're back having the same conversation about anti-Blackness.
A year ago, I started making diagrams to better understand those patterns and where they come from.
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People often recognize a feeling long before they have language for it.
Sometimes a sentence or diagram simply makes an existing tension speakable.
Not closure.
Just language for what communities have carried quietly for years.
Kenyan Indians who've been following the conversation after @shikshaarora_ 's comments on the podcast
This is the time to listen. To be honest. To reflect deeply.
Proximity does not equal relationship
As excellently articulated in @blindianproject
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Community screenings of Mathonga Elizwe (Spirits Of The Land) documentary about land restitution in South Africa. Providing a platform for people to talk about this pertinent matter in a land that still suffers from the legacy of colonial and apartheid brutal thefts. Spread it.
Last week we partnered with Dream Big Youth Foundation
and launched a campaign to build long-term infrastructure for this work.
Because this can’t rely on moments—it has to be sustained.
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Faith in a Box is live with Goya
How does caste travel through packaging, branding, and the global spice aisle?
What is moralised on the plate often becomes normalised in policy.
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Which hand?
We talk about eating with our hands.
We rarely ask which hand.
Power enters the body before we have language for it. 👇🏽
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What Southasian spaces lose when anti-Blackness goes unspoken and what past movements can teach us about widening the circle again.
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Solidarity doesn’t collapse because people disagree.
It collapses when hierarchy goes unnamed.
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For: @SapanNews @beenasarwar
We’re pleased to welcome Kavitha Rajagopalan as a Board Member of the BlindianProject.
As the board comes into formation, we’re focused on building cultural infrastructure with care, accountability, and long-term stewardship.
Before consent, there was the kitchen.
Reconstruction Studies 001 is now public — a foundational text on how power is learned before it’s named.
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