Rohan Zhou-Lee (They/Siya/祂 (Tā) is a Queer/Non-Binary Black Asian author, dancer, and organizer in New York City. Zhou-Lee is the founder of the Blasian March, an initiative to build solidarity between Black, Asian and Blasian communities through education and celebration with chapters in New Haven, Los Angeles, and Chicago. They have been featured as an activist on AJ+, CNN, NBC Chicago, WNYC, USA Today, and other news outlets, as well as Caribbean Equality Project’s Live Pridefully exhibit at the Queens Museum and as a community storyteller at the Newark Museum of Art Carlos Villa exhibit with Rutgers University. Their writing on Black Asian solidarity can be found in them Magazine, Truthout, Mochi Magazine, Pigment International, Mixed Asian Media, Prism Reports, NextShark, Reappropriate, and Newsweek. 祂 has spoken on Black-Asian solidarity, Asian American writing, queer feminism, and more at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, UCLA Berkeley, Harvard University, and others. Their written piece Why Abolition Is Essential for Black-Asian Solidarity was incorporated into Asian American studies courses at California State University. Siya spoke on the Blasian March and performed poetry, contemporary ballet, and operatic work at the 2022 Unite Festival and Enough Festival in Zurich, Switzerland. Zhou-Lee holds a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Ethnomusicology from Northwestern University.

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