June
To Exist Is to Resist: The Memory of Tiananmen and the Entangled Struggles of Formosa, Tibet, and Palestine
Last year, at a Palestine solidarity encampment on campus, I had a tense exchange with a Zionist student. He sneered, pointing at a map: “Where is Palestine? I only see Israel.” In that moment, it hit me again—some identities, some memories, are not erased because of what they’ve done, but simply because they exist. This is the reality in Tibet, East Turkestan, Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia, and across China itself: even remembering the Tiananmen Massacre is a punishable offense. Existence itself is treated like a crime...
June
June was born on the western edge of the Pacific and lives on Turtle Island—a diasporic internationalist and a drifting academic worker. They move between research, writing, and activism, centering the everyday lives, resistance, memory, and knowledge-producing of those in the shadowed corners of empires—Palestine, East Turkestan, Tibet, Taiwan, and Asian American communities.