Photo: Courtesy Getty (via the Guardian) On September 28,a 7.5 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The city of Palu was destroyed as were other villages...
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13 Sep, 2018
exploring little tokyo…
13 Sep, 2018
One afternoon, while exploring Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, my friend Jamie and I stumbled on murals designed by Bunnie Reiss.
Read more19 Apr, 2018
stories all around us…
19 Apr, 2018
General Manager Mahbubul Alam, Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh (photo from my 2013 Bangladesh visit and interview) Yesterday, I returned to the printer cartridge store where I had purchased toner...
Read more24 Mar, 2018
march for our lives…
24 Mar, 2018
On our second last day of spring break, Minal made sure that we woke up early to take LA Metro to Union Station. Once at the station, we joined...
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taking a break…
23 Mar, 2018
This week, our spring break, René, Minal, and I boarded a flight to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, which is just two hours away from Los Angeles. When we landed in...
Read more06 Mar, 2018
revisiting the border…
06 Mar, 2018
the Texas-Mexico fence at Old Hidalgo Pumphouse Last week, I dipped into the Rio Grande Valley for 24-hours to participate in an arts and literature festival. The morning after...
Read more23 Feb, 2018
recovering….
23 Feb, 2018
Photo by Vicente Lozano Three weeks have passed since I performed On Belonging inside the Menil Collection’s Byzantine Fresco Chapel and set up the installation on the tree outside...
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on belonging in houston…
26 Jan, 2018
On Belonging survey response cards placed on ajrak, a fabric from Sindh, Pakistan and Gujarat, India; participants’ mothers’ born in (left) China (right) Thailand Houston weather has been good...
Read more09 Dec, 2017
a tribute to nora…
09 Dec, 2017
Minal’s painting dedicated to Nora Nora, our family’s beloved cat, passed away two days ago. Minal, René and I created a collaborative post in memory of her: We miss...
Read more01 Dec, 2017
my tortoise is trans…
01 Dec, 2017
November 2015: Oskar and René’s wedding “My tortoise is trans,” comments Tina. “She’s female actually,” explains Tina’s brother John. “But even though we’ve had the tortoise for more than...
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