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Black History Month is an opportunity to explain the pivotal roles Black people have played in shaping our ideas of collective liberation, strategies of political action, bold resistance, and resilience passed down from generation to generation.✊🏾✊🏾

It's Black History Month! As Ambedkarites, the power of our caste equity movement stems from solidarity between Black & South Asian communities. There’s a long history of Dalits gaining inspiration from Black lineage and power, & a history of collective resilience in the face of oppression.🤝🏾

'Islamophobia is on the rise again,' Equality Labs report warns – AsAmNews Social media companies have loosened moderation, and this is leading to a tinderbox online. Islamophobia is a danger to civil society, founder warns.

This piece from @asamnews.bsky.social features our new report "Manufactured Hate: The Muslim Invasion Conspiracy." The report examines the national rise of Islamophobic narratives in online spaces across the United States in 2025.

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6/ 📊Our team tracked these narratives in several states documenting not only an increase in Islamophobic content but also a growing volume of material explicitly designed to inflame tensions and incite violence. www.equalitylabs.org/research/pub...

5/ 🧾Our new report, “Manufactured Hate: The Muslim Invasion Conspiracy”, examines the national rise of American Islamophobia in online spaces across the US in 2025—especially around the orientalist and discriminatory theory of “Muslims invasion.”

4/‼️By 2025, Islamophobia in the United States developed into a nationwide ecosystem of false narratives, intimidation, and political targeting that erodes public safety, suppresses civic participation, and drives discriminatory policy.

3/ 📣Under the Trump administration, many communities have faced hate and bigotry, but Muslim Americans have quickly become among the most intensively targeted groups in coordinated disinformation campaigns.

2/ We have included these examples for awareness, organizing, and strategic analysis, and doing so required our team to engage with harmful content repeatedly. We encourage readers to proceed with care, pace themselves, and take breaks as needed when reviewing content that includes violent rhetoric.

1/ ⚠️Trigger Warning: This report contains content and images depicting discrimination, hate, and harmful stereotypes directed toward Muslims. Some material may be distressing for readers.

📣Join us Wednesday January 14th at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET for a community briefing on policy priorities for our AAPI community in 2026! Sign up at link in bio, or below!
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4/ Fatima Sheikh's legacy lives on today as we continue to advance her mission to end patriarchy and caste apartheid. Now, we must fight to ensure that Fatima’s contributions to India’s women and caste-oppressed communities will not be erased. Jai Bhim! 💛💙

3/ Despite severe opposition, Fatima fought to empower girls at a time when education was a privilege limited to dominant caste men, so we celebrate Fatima’s legacy with revolutionary joy and gratitude for her groundbreaking work.

2/ Fatima worked closely with fellow anti-caste and feminist activists of her time, including Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule, a couple who established multiple schools for girls of all backgrounds. Their friendship represents a model for interfaith and intercaste allyship that we celebrate.

1/ Today we celebrate Fatima Sheikh, India’s first Muslim woman teacher. Born in 1831, Fatima Sheikh was a dedicated and revolutionary educator who taught children of all castes and religions. ✊🏾💙📚

💙Thank you for standing with us this year. As we carry our work into 2026, we invite you to partner with us again. Please consider making a contribution today. Your support fuels our movement for caste abolition. https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/equality-labs/general_support

📣NCAPA is hosting an educational call TOMORROW Thursday December 18 1pm PT / 4pm ET

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾Join “From Self Care to Community Care” to share tips, perspectives, and strategies for self care in order to sustain yourself while communicating with empathy.

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‘Aligning Caste Interests With Extremists Has Not Worked In The US’: Winner Of 2025 Vaikom Award Vaikom awardee and executive director of Equality Labs, a US Dalit civil rights advocacy, Thenmozhi Soundararajan talked to us on identifying a “different orientation” for hope in the US at a time whe...

“There is always an attempt to diminish, undermine, or say caste does not exist…”

@equalitylabs.bsky.social co-founder & winner of 2025 Vaikom Award from TN @dalitdiva.bsky.social says anti-caste movement in the US is being eclipsed by the collapse of democracy

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/ In 2025, our caste equity work brought caste protection resolutions, Know Your Rights workshops, webinars, and mutual aid support for Dalit communities despite instability caused by immigration crises, budget cuts, and hate speech. 💪🏾💪🏾

This year, we published two landmark reports: 1) Caste, Race, and Religious Hate Speech On Bluesky and 2) Tracing the Online Hate of Zohran Mamdani. As a trusted voice in human rights and digital safety, we shine a light on hate speech and advocate for its removal from public discourse.

We’re all-in to protect our movement from digital harm during what will be a heated election year. Your support will help us meet rising demand, protect essential civil society organizations, and strengthen frontline organizers.

2025 has underscored that long-standing systems of oppression will not protect us. We are the winning strategy. We are the ones who have each other’s back. We are the architects of the future. ✊🏾Check out our kaleidoscope of movement work and join us in building the future all beings deserve.

💙💛 We’re Going All-In for 2026: Support our $50,000 Catalyst Fund Campaign! By giving to our Catalyst Fund, you’ll be providing the fuel we need to deepen our work to protect marginalized people, movement organizations, and democratic values. 💙💛

Caste Discrimination in US: Dalit Activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan's Groundbreaking Survey and Advocacy | Chennai News - The Times of India A groundbreaking US survey revealed widespread caste discrimination among Dalits, challenging the notion that it's confined to South Asia. Activist Th

Thank you, @timesofindianews.bsky.social for this primer on caste in the US. Our Executive Director, @dalitdiva.bsky.social states: "We deserve a diaspora that heals together, stands with survivors, and refuses to repeat the injustices we inherited."
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4/ We must also mobilize to empower Trans leaders, build safer and stronger communities, and ensure that all gender non-conforming folx can be seen through authentic, diverse, and accurate stories while navigating the world in safety as their full selves. 💪🏾💙💛Trans rights are Ambedkarite values!

3/ Last year alone, 27 gender-expansive folx lost their lives through violent means. Anti-Trans violence especially impacts Black and Brown Trans women. Today and every day, we celebrate all Trans people everywhere to combat disinformation, oppression, Transphobia, and hate.

2/ On Trans Day of Remembrance, we celebrate and uplift the lived experiences of Trans people and the countless contributions they have made to our movements, while also drawing attention to the dangerous barrage of transphobic legislation being introduced across the country.

1/ 🏳️‍⚧️To our Trans siblings on this Transgender Day of Remembrance: we value you and your resilience, and we stand in solidarity with you in fighting against the violence and discrimination that gender-expansive folx unfairly and constantly experience.

3/ 📣“Understanding these attacks is essential for safeguarding democracy and ensuring that communities can participate in politics without fear”, states our Executive Director, Thenmozhi Soundararajan.

2/📊The study tracks the rise of Islamophobia, xenophobia, red-baiting/anti-working-class narratives, and anti–South Asian disinformation, providing the most comprehensive picture to date of how hate campaigns are shaping political discourse in the US.