Too many "articles" on the #MilkTeaAlliance treat it as a monolithic organisation instead of a fluid, loose coalition of diffrent movements/causes. Each movement contained is also not monolithic. It is spawling & has contradictions. There isn't a single source that covers it all

I am grateful to the journalists that have tried to cover this hard to define coalition in good faith. Each approaching it from a diffrent angle & using diffrent sources. It's hard as I don't think anyone has visibility of the whole interconnected glorious mess.

Even this amazing work (Defo go read it) doesn't capture it all. It is a 36 page peer reviewed paper by @taiwanadam & Autumn Lai on the #MilkTeaAlliance and this is the work of months not days but the MTA morphs and changes rapidly. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contention/aop/cont090105/cont090105.xml

We have to recognise that in all the diversity there will be contradictions, problems, challenges, bad faith actors but this shouldn't detract from the fact that as a vehicle to raise up the voices of the oppressed the #MilkTeaAlliance does that very well.

One important thing to remember is that many who are using/identifying with the #MilkTeaAlliance are in the middle of a struggle, often at the risk of arrest & death, they can't always learn all the geopolitics, nuance of the other struggles. They just want to be heard.

So don't look at the millions of tweets & 1000s of art works & dismiss it due to the contradictions and problems, while I wouldn't go as far as saying they are a feature, they are going to be there. After all it started as a shitposting war
Love to my #MilkTeaAlliance allies