• Désiaspora
• Activist Alert
• Calendar of Events
• Contacting Us
• Resources

South Asian Women for Action (SAWA) is a Boston-based, progressive, non-hierarchical collective of women of South Asian descent.

Members of SAWA

• Organize and dialogue across lines of age, class, sexuality, race, religion and language,
• Articulate what it means for us to be living as South Asian women in the United States,
• Give our experiences political and creative expressions through a variety of media like visual art, theater, and writing,
• Speak out and strategize against all kinds of discrimination.

We are committed to acting on, advocating and continually revising our agenda along with other progressive groups in our fight for social and economic justice.

Désiaspora
Our upcoming newsletter.

• The editorial sketches what SAWA has been up to in the past year.
• Reflections on coalition building. How do we do it?
• Sunu Chandy's "People of Color and the Law," "We Will Not be Used," and "What is a Valid South Asian Struggle?"

Activist alert: The immigration bill we mobilized against has been passed and is now in conference before being submitted to the president, but the underlying issue of access to public aid -- and the stereotype that some immigrants are more deserving than others -- remains very much alive. SAWA continues to be concerned about the punitive measures against illegal immigrants and legal immigrants in need of public assistance. We urge you to find out more about the legislation and its intended effects and ACT NOW to fight it by sending a letter to the President urging him to oppose it. We welcome material, suggestions, and strategies to counter this unfair legislation.

Contacting SAWA

Write to us with your reactions, comments, and suggestions at [[CONTACT PAGE]]. If you would like to become involved with SAWA, our meetings are on the second Tuesday evening of every month. Write us for information about time and place.

South Asian Resources

• We are updating our calendar of events, send anything you want included to [CONTACT PAGE].
• SAWNET (South Asian Women's Network) an ever-expanding resource for and about South Asian women in the U.S. and abroad.
• News from the Omnivore's South and East Asia page, with links to news from India, Bangladesh, South Asia in general. You will also find several information servers focused on Asia and the Pacific.
• Trikone, a South Asian gay and lesbian group based in the San Francicsco Bay area.
• The MIT Women's Studies home page.
• Archive of the "Third World Women" List.

[CONTACT PAGE] of any resources we may have missed. If they are relevant, we will link to them here.

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