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Uyghur Resistance Book

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Across the Uyghur diaspora we are building a path to freedom: you can help show the world our truth.


As Uyghur people, we are used to having others tell us who we are. That is why we are creating this book, to tell our stories in our own words. Through photos, essays, and stories from over thirty Uyghurs across the global diaspora, this book will stand as a testament to our collective power. 

This is our story of resistance: defined on our terms. - Nuria Khasim | Lead Editor

 

  1. Enable thousands of people to finally hear our stories in our words
  2. Defy the Chinese Communist Party’s aims to erase Uyghur culture and people
  3. Protect the freedom of our writers: we’re self-publishing to maintain independence so we’re relying on people like you instead of traditional institutions
  4. Every dollar creates impact: we are a volunteer-led team so the entirety of your contribution will exponentially expand the reach of this book
  5. Stand in solidarity: join the Uyghur struggle for freedom 
     

Without you, this book will remain nothing more than a draft on our computer

 

This is not a book about genocide: This is the story of people forced from their land who are fighting to forge a path back home. Anyone who picks up this book will be equipped to understand and meaningfully support our movement. 

With essays on topics from resistance through political advocacy, faith, art, journalism, poetry, and survival — this book is for anyone who seeks to understand our movement. Featuring 60+ photographs, Uyghur Resistance brings together Uyghur contributors from across the globe: Istanbul, Sydney, Paris, Montreal, Boston, Taipei, and London. It captures the Uyghur diaspora at a point in time when one of the most powerful states in the world is trying to eliminate our very existence. 

 

We have chosen not to partner with a publisher to retain full editorial independence. This includes our vocal solidarity with Palestine. As a consequence, we don’t have access to the institutional power of a traditional publisher. Instead, we are relying on the power of people. We are a fully independent, volunteer-led crew of ordinary people dedicated to getting this book into as many hands as possible. 

Our goal is to have thousands of people finally hear our stories of defiance. But we need help.

You will be part of the movement that is boldly standing against one of the largest genocidal colonisers in history.  

Your support will enable this book to be printed, marketed, and read by thousands of people. 

This book is an act of resistance that you can make possible.

 

 A note from Nuria Khasim | Lead Editor

 

As Uyghur people, we are used to having others tell us who we are. 

My childhood was consumed by trying to square what the CCP told me about my people, and what I myself knew about my people.

I remember visiting family in East Turkistan as a child and staring with awe at the armed police in riot gear who patrolled the streets of Urumqi — a sight I had never witnessed while growing up in Beijing. That told me that we Uyghurs are unruly, violent people. 

I remember learning that Ilham Tohti, an Uyghur professor at the university where my mother worked, was jailed for being a ‘separatist’. I struggled to understand how the university I loved like a home — where my toddler brother had soccer training and where auburn leaves would carpet the sidewalk in autumn — was the breeding ground for separatism. That told me that no Uyghur is trustworthy, no matter how respected by institutions and society. 

The year I graduated high school, news broke that the CCP had arbitrarily detained millions of Uyghur people. That told me that the apparent problem with Uyghurs is something inherent in who we are — our problem is our Uyghur-ness. Through the criminalisation of Uyghur identity, the CCP has ‘justified’ its genocide. 

Meanwhile, China has facilitated the mass migration of Han Chinese people to occupied East Turkestan through the erasure of Uyghur humanity — our homeland is frequently portrayed as a vast and empty repository of untapped resources and opportunities, ripe for the taking by Chinese migrants. 

Outside of China, Uyghurs are subject to the same imposition of external narratives onto our experiences. Genocide-deniers cast Uyghur people as liars and paid actors, commentators describe us as one-dimensional victims of atrocity crimes, politicians treat us as an irritating barrier to their attempts to build economic, diplomatic and military relationships with the state that has ordered our systemic annihilation. 

That is why we are making this book. To tell our truth: on our terms. 

Uyghur Resistance is a collaborative project that unravels the individual and diverse threads of Uyghur resistance to tell our story. 

 

  • Our goal is to have as many people as possible reading this book. But without the backing of an institutional publisher, we’re relying on the power of people like you.
  • Every dollar that we receive will be used by our volunteer-led team to cover the initial phase costs of production. If we reach our target we’ll be able to exponentially scale the impact of this project through grassroots awareness strategies.
  • The Uyghur genocide is permitted by politicians and corporations outside of China who profit from our forced labour and land theft. They must be held accountable. So to create tangible change there needs to be a groundswell movement of people, willing to stand in solidarity. Together we can pressure those, including our politicians, who are complicit in the Uyghur genocide. We believe this book has substantial capacity to grow the movement of activists and ordinary people who are defying the CCP.
     

You can help build this movement.

Our timeline

2021- 2025: 

  • Writing, photography, thousands of meetings, and a lot of noodles (these expenses are already covered) 
     

February–March 2025: 

  • Design and print preparation
     

April 2025:

  • If we reach our initial target of $56k AUD the book will be sent to print and general pre-orders will open
     

September 2025: 

  • The book is back from the printers, and we kick off our launch events with the first one in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia
  • We start mailing supporter packs out
  • The book will be available for mass distribution

We'd love to hear from you:

uyghur.resistance.book@gmail.com


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