Sonny Singh
@sonnysingh.bsky.social
Musician & social justice educator | New album SANGAT out now | he/him www.sonnysingh.com
An excerpt from a talk I did at UVM about the Sikh concept of Chardi Kala. I often begin sharing my family’s immigration story which means addressing the model minority myth head on. youtu.be/yxJETwiGhlw?...
Sonny Singh on the model minority myth and anti-Blackness in South Asian communities
YouTube video by Sonny Singh
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Compendium 244 - Song 12 Qais Essar & Sonny Singh - Beloved Album: Sangat Date: 2025 Web: sonnysingh.bandcamp.com/album/sangat Blue Sky: #QaisEssarMusic / @sonnysingh.bsky.social
Sangat, by Qais Essar & Sonny Singh
9 track album
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Chicago this Saturday night - we bring you Sangat, a musical journey rooted in beloved community and expansive solidarity. www.saichicago.org/calendar/san...
Qais Essar & Sonny Singh: SANGAT Album Release Concert — South Asia Institute
"Together the two musicians draw on centuries-old texts, often from the Sufi and Sikh traditions, to make music that embraces unity at a time of great division." — WNYC Afghan American rabab virtuo...
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Our time has come. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and his campaign have been chardi kala in action throughout this last year, and now we get to soak it in for a moment. Real HOPE. A taste of what is possible. Today happens to be Guru Nanak’s Gurpurab, the birthday of the founder of Sikh revolution.
you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:
Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor
See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.
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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
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NYC voters: There is so much mixed messaging from progressives and total confusion about ballot proposals 2-4. I voted yes on them. Check out this @jacobinmag.bsky.social article if you're confused about what to do, it's super helpful. jacobin.com/2025/10/new-...
You Can’t Have Social Housing Without Building Housing
Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.
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The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution. Donate here.
Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund
The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...
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NYC! Our Sangat album release show is TONIGHT Oct 9 at Drom. Still some tickets available. Hope to see you there as we delve into the intersection of the spiritual and revolutionary, the introspective and ecstatic. dromnyc.com/event/qais-e...
Qais Essar & Sonny Singh: SANGAT Album Release Show - Dromnyc.com
Join us aJoin us at DROM for a night celebrating a fusion of Afgani and Sikh voices, as Qais Essar and Sonny Singh present their newest project to date!
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Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
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How you can take action against ABC/Disney bending the knee to authoritarianism: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
TAKE ACTION AGAINST DISNEY-ABC for BENDING TO THE ADMIN
DISNEY-ABC: STOP BENDING TO AUTHORITARIAN PRESSURE. ACTION RESOURCE LIST WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE A few hours ago, Disney-ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air—just hours after the FCC threatened...
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Say it with me: we would not be seeing this authoritarian censorship takeover in the United States, had both parties, the media and elite institutions not already greased the path with the muzzling of speech on Palestine.
just not our students that we expelled for "difficult speech" </3
Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 12mo agoand the Pulitzer Prize for sophistry goes to …
Today marks 24 years since the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi—one of the first deadly post-9/11 hate crimes. Today, we honor Balbir ji’s memory, along with all those whose lives have been lost to or forever changed by violent hate 🕯️
Lovely piece in @bandcamp.com by Vrinda Jagota on NYC's growing Sufi music scene. Honored to be included in it - daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report...
Mapping NYC’s Qawwali Music Renaissance
Get to know the artists rewriting the rules of South Asian devotional music.
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@sonnysingh.bsky.social with some beautiful tunes, and a powerful message of our shared syncretic histories! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdW8... "The Guru Granth Sahib was not just written by Sikhs, right? It was written by Muslim Sufis, by Hindu Bhakti saints..." (1/2)
The Forgotten Legacy of Sikh-Muslim Musical Collaboration - SANGAT
YouTube video by Sonny Singh
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There is a hundreds of year-old history of Sikh and Muslim musical collaboration that has been buried. We make music and build community that transcends boundaries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdW8...
The Forgotten Legacy of Sikh-Muslim Musical Collaboration - SANGAT
YouTube video by Sonny Singh
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My new album with Qais Essar will be out October 17! You can presave it now and save the date for a show near you. sonnysingh.ffm.to/sangatalbum
Join me at Arts & Democracy’s Free concert Sept 4 at 7pm at Ave C Plaza in Kensington Brooklyn featuring @sonnysingh.bsky.social and Mafer Power Trio
Thank you, @crackmagazine.bsky.social, for featuring BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 and curator-contributor @sonnysingh.bsky.social 💜 www.instagram.com/p/DNlRAJUNPZn/
Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, says she could not stay silent on the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza. "My deep care for children doesn't stop at any border," she says. Watch the full interview: www.democracynow.org/2025/8/13/ms...
Artists are with Palestine. As BDS Mixtape curator & contributor @sonnysingh.bsky.social says: "It is our responsibility as musicians to get louder. We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide." www.amplifypalestine.org/bds-mixtape-...
This. It’s really disheartening to see the vitriol — we can disagree and critique without canceling (& making false equivalencies).
gary s broderick (he/him)@garybroderick.bsky.social · last yr.Fundamentally, the Left’s wrestling w/ @aoc.bsky.social is a proxy for wrestling with having power/ pursuing power/ governing while sharing power. Throwing away a leader when they do something you disagree with + moving at feverish speeds to discredit them explains some of why we are without power.
What a refreshing and powerful read from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social today, a nice pivot from a lot of the the NYT's terrible coverage on Zohran of late. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
Opinion | Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another
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July 19th in Queens, NYC! Thrilled to be a part of this epic @summerstage.bsky.social show curated by @djrekha.bsky.social along with Rashmeet Kaur, Rajuju, Tara Lily and more. Get there by 6:00 to catch my set!
Mixmag Asia on our new BDS Mixtape 💜 "'As crackdowns on Palestine solidarity activism and speech rapidly increase, it is our responsibility as musicians to get louder,' says [Mixtape] co-curator @sonnysingh.bsky.social" mixmag.asia/read/amplify...
Amplify Palestine drops cross-genre compilation exploring resistance through sound
‘Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3’ brings together experimental electronics, acoustic traditions, and 20+ musicians in 13 tracks
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BREAKING: Over Two Dozen Community Organizations Slam Eric Adams for Endorsing Event Featuring Hindu Supremacist Kajal Hindustani, and Demand His Withdrawal and an Apology
Huda Asfour and @sonnysingh.bsky.social talk curating Amplify Palestine's latest BDS Mixtape—out today
Sonny Singh and Huda Asfour Won’t Sink into Despair
The artists talk curating the latest BDS Mixtape for Amplify Palestine, the anti-fascist history of improvisation, and the necessity of sumud.
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