Rohan Zhou-Lee, a Black Asian nonbinary person in gray spandex shorts, leather harness, and red short cape, leads a diverse group of people in a march while holding a microphone.

On plantations in the 1800s, plantation owners used diversity as a means of division. “We lay great stress on the necessity of having our labor mixed. By employing different nationalities, there is less danger of collusion among laborers,” reports an 1883 Planters Monthly article. Sowing division was essential to maintaining the oppression of the working […]

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