Tibetan threads
NAVIGATING LIFE IN EXILE
Our blog initiative centers Tibetan youth voices in exile, with a special focus on the unique perspective and unique experience that Tibetans growing up in Western spaces have had grappling with their identity. This works to serve our third pillar of equipping our youth community in exile with language they can employ to describe their experience while also pushing for our voices to be recognized in academic discussions on ethnicity, identity, and belonging.
Chinese Suzerainty over Tibet: an Expedient Invention
Chinese Suzerainty over Tibet: An Expedient Invention
Tibetan spotlights: Sonam Rikha Interns in U.S. Embassy in Thailand
“Because of my background growing up in one of the most diverse neighbourhoods in Chicago, and constantly being surrounded by refugees and immigrants, just naturally made me interested in what were the conditions that caused them to end up here in the U.S.”
OUR JOURNEY BUILDING ROKPA
“As Tibetan children in Tibet are being stripped from the privilege of dreaming, one of our greatest forms of resistance in exile becomes achieving our own dreams.”