TAPAS and Ruodi Duan presented on how, from waging the Vietnam anti-war movement to standing in solidarity with BLM, AAPI political identity is and has been shaped by a solidarity with a diversity of struggles from around the world.

Ruodi Duan is is a Ph.D. candidate in international history. She is currently working on a dissertation about the discourses and practices of Afro-Asianism from the post-Bandung vantage points of China, Tanzania, and the transnational networks of the African American left. Her other academic interests include Asian American history, Pacific history, and cultural and ethnic studies.