Kavitha Rajagopalan
@kxraja.bsky.social
Founding director, Asian Media Initiative @ccmnewmarkj.bsky.social. Writer. Previously Sr Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affrs. Global migration + Asia-Pacific. Pediatric transplant mom.
This absolutely unhinged quote from the president of the United States is in the 19th paragraph in this article. Barely remarkable! But also just astonishing.
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This absolutely unhinged quote from the president of the United States is in the 19th paragraph in this article. Barely remarkable! But also just astonishing.
You have a budgie!! I have a little flock of 3. They’re my little angels.
October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
You have a budgie!! I have a little flock of 3. They’re my little angels.
You can search by city name or metro area as well:
July 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
You can search by city name or metro area as well:
To this point:
In-language and community centered news owned by and serving immigrants **are** providing this type of coverage.
Stay tuned for our upcoming series on how Asian American community news is responding to ICE, surveillance, etc. in Nonprofit Quarterly
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...
In-language and community centered news owned by and serving immigrants **are** providing this type of coverage.
Stay tuned for our upcoming series on how Asian American community news is responding to ICE, surveillance, etc. in Nonprofit Quarterly
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...
![Bouie: Just on the question of national media coverage, I think it's important to remember that there's CNN, there's ABC, whatever, but there's also local news affiliates and a lot of this stuff is being covered —
(OP HIGHLIGHTED) Cottle: Are there? Are there still local news affiliates?
(OP HIGHLIGHTed) Bouie: [Laughs.] There is still local news.
Goldberg: There's still local TV news, 100 percent.
Bouie: Right, and local TV news actually does cover this stuff on the regular because it involves community members, it involves public spaces that people are familiar with. It doesn't even necessarily have to catch on in the national media for people to be aware of this and aware of it — the sense that it's pervasive.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6nndzuerlukz6rdbtlme3mi3/bafkreifh3hc7q2anhnkiksgkgbha6sestmj73tshyd66hcqeak4lhuk2da@jpeg)
July 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
To this point:
In-language and community centered news owned by and serving immigrants **are** providing this type of coverage.
Stay tuned for our upcoming series on how Asian American community news is responding to ICE, surveillance, etc. in Nonprofit Quarterly
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...
In-language and community centered news owned by and serving immigrants **are** providing this type of coverage.
Stay tuned for our upcoming series on how Asian American community news is responding to ICE, surveillance, etc. in Nonprofit Quarterly
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...
Imagine publishing a case for democrats to tack to the right on immigration policy when masked men are disappearing nursing mothers at their court appearances, ICE is assaulting senators and driving through crowds, and hundreds have been sent without due process to be tortured overseas.
July 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Imagine publishing a case for democrats to tack to the right on immigration policy when masked men are disappearing nursing mothers at their court appearances, ICE is assaulting senators and driving through crowds, and hundreds have been sent without due process to be tortured overseas.
Worth noting that 1898 was the year the U.S. annexed the Philippines, Guam, Cuba and evtl Hawaii. An interesting read on how Filipinos born to parents who’d have been citizens as colonial subjects have fallen thru cracks: www.philstar.com/opinion/2007...
June 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Worth noting that 1898 was the year the U.S. annexed the Philippines, Guam, Cuba and evtl Hawaii. An interesting read on how Filipinos born to parents who’d have been citizens as colonial subjects have fallen thru cracks: www.philstar.com/opinion/2007...
After several cycles of losing enthusiasm and ground with previously taken for granted constituents, you’d think this would be the only takeaway that matters: he managed to expand the electorate.
June 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
After several cycles of losing enthusiasm and ground with previously taken for granted constituents, you’d think this would be the only takeaway that matters: he managed to expand the electorate.
Community media doesn’t always react right away, but the Iranian American community has a robust and extensive media ecosystem. Want to hear from them and hearing crickets from mainstream? Follow their own media: amimap.journalism.cuny.edu
June 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Community media doesn’t always react right away, but the Iranian American community has a robust and extensive media ecosystem. Want to hear from them and hearing crickets from mainstream? Follow their own media: amimap.journalism.cuny.edu
We commemorate this #AAPIHeritageMonth as the US threatens immigrant communities, scholars, and history.
How are community archives preserving and protecting Filipino- Japanese- and South Asian American history?
Join us June 5 for a virtual event:
www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/commu...
How are community archives preserving and protecting Filipino- Japanese- and South Asian American history?
Join us June 5 for a virtual event:
www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/commu...
May 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We commemorate this #AAPIHeritageMonth as the US threatens immigrant communities, scholars, and history.
How are community archives preserving and protecting Filipino- Japanese- and South Asian American history?
Join us June 5 for a virtual event:
www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/commu...
How are community archives preserving and protecting Filipino- Japanese- and South Asian American history?
Join us June 5 for a virtual event:
www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/commu...
Following the massacre of 28 Indian civilians in Kashmir, India has now struck Pakistan. Pakistan plans to respond. Two nuclear powers.
May 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Following the massacre of 28 Indian civilians in Kashmir, India has now struck Pakistan. Pakistan plans to respond. Two nuclear powers.
From this must-read on the political philosophy driving current Trumpism: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/o...
May 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
From this must-read on the political philosophy driving current Trumpism: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/o...
Before you can “design for terrorists” you have to define terrorist. If it just means anyone Black, Latino, Muslim, nonwhite, non-powerful, we all have problems.
April 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Before you can “design for terrorists” you have to define terrorist. If it just means anyone Black, Latino, Muslim, nonwhite, non-powerful, we all have problems.
FYI. So if you see something that says 4% of Democrats approve and 90% of Republicans approve, that’s 1.8 mm and 32.4 mm — a total of 43.2 mm Americans who may be approving. Of course polls don’t include every registered voter.
www.bbc.com/news/resourc...
www.bbc.com/news/resourc...
April 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
FYI. So if you see something that says 4% of Democrats approve and 90% of Republicans approve, that’s 1.8 mm and 32.4 mm — a total of 43.2 mm Americans who may be approving. Of course polls don’t include every registered voter.
www.bbc.com/news/resourc...
www.bbc.com/news/resourc...
Grateful to the good folks at Brooklyn Rescue Mission / Bed Stuy Farm growing and giving out fresh organic food in the community. The kids celebrated Tamil New Year and Easter by serving food insecure neighbors in our community 🙌🏽
April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Grateful to the good folks at Brooklyn Rescue Mission / Bed Stuy Farm growing and giving out fresh organic food in the community. The kids celebrated Tamil New Year and Easter by serving food insecure neighbors in our community 🙌🏽
Spent the morning pamphleting with young leaders 🙌🏽
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Spent the morning pamphleting with young leaders 🙌🏽
Really grateful for the DEI in NYC’s public school calendar. Because our Spring breaks happen later to align with Passover, and because we have extra school holidays, we get a midwinter break. So needed this year: stillness and contemplation on a frozen lake.
February 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Really grateful for the DEI in NYC’s public school calendar. Because our Spring breaks happen later to align with Passover, and because we have extra school holidays, we get a midwinter break. So needed this year: stillness and contemplation on a frozen lake.
MAGA and xenophobic Indian Americans (AAPI in general) could stand to learn more about Asian exclusion, alien land laws, and violent pogroms like Bellingham, Watsonville and mass lynchings of AAPI.
February 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
MAGA and xenophobic Indian Americans (AAPI in general) could stand to learn more about Asian exclusion, alien land laws, and violent pogroms like Bellingham, Watsonville and mass lynchings of AAPI.
Last year my 8yo who survived childhood illness told me he feels haunted by his past. A dear friend said he was likely talking about me, that he fears I am haunted by his past. So yesterday we crossed a bridge under churning sky and over a turbid river with Jeremy the Frog and looked to the future.
January 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Last year my 8yo who survived childhood illness told me he feels haunted by his past. A dear friend said he was likely talking about me, that he fears I am haunted by his past. So yesterday we crossed a bridge under churning sky and over a turbid river with Jeremy the Frog and looked to the future.
This Sunday, I will be reading at the launch an anthology born in a women’s writing circle convened by the incomparable Nayomi Munaweera. We witnessed loss and sorrow and made meaning from it. Available today: amzn.to/3VvEqWz
Join us 12/15 + 17 on Zoom: stmarys-ca.zoom.us/j/9200612765...
Join us 12/15 + 17 on Zoom: stmarys-ca.zoom.us/j/9200612765...
December 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
This Sunday, I will be reading at the launch an anthology born in a women’s writing circle convened by the incomparable Nayomi Munaweera. We witnessed loss and sorrow and made meaning from it. Available today: amzn.to/3VvEqWz
Join us 12/15 + 17 on Zoom: stmarys-ca.zoom.us/j/9200612765...
Join us 12/15 + 17 on Zoom: stmarys-ca.zoom.us/j/9200612765...