OOC: As far as the eye can see, the -iao/ao collectives contain both diaspora and homeland voices from all over Asia, looking just at the languages that are used in puns and wordplay—Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Canto, Mandarin, Hokkien being some of them— https://twitter.com/niaocollective/status/1309923955210420224

What unifies this united front is a rejection of authoritarian hegemonies, colonialism, and imperialism, as well as questions about our shared identities and experiences as participants in thoroughly asymmetrical power relations.

And, you know, dicks. Love that too.

One last thing: if Western leftists take a look, they’ll see that the things that we are fighting against here are... the same thing that _they_ are fighting against.

Billionaires? Yep.
Land seizures to rake in profits? Yep.
Ecological & environmental destruction? Yep.

What about the things we are all fighting for?

Self-determination? Yep.
Labour organizing? Yep.
Same-sex marriages and protection for LGBTQ+ people? Yep.
Decolonialism & autonomy of mvmt and existence? Yep.