Zarana Sanghani, who recently returned to Houston after graduate school and working New York, talks about the issue of “home” – a subject that’s close to her heart: Feeling...
Read more16 Apr, 2015
14 Apr, 2015
you have to find home within yourself…
14 Apr, 2015
My friend Gordon talks about his sense of home as we drink tea and sip smoothies just a few blocks from his house in Freedmen’s Town, where he and...
Read more07 Apr, 2015
i think of windows when i think of home…
07 Apr, 2015
I meet up with my friends Sally, Beverly and Yolanda, who I know through many Houston-based spaces and organizations including Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and the University of Houston’s...
Read more03 Apr, 2015
for me, everything is here: friends, family, health, doctors…
03 Apr, 2015
Most of the interviews I’ve undertaken for my project have been with friends and family who were born in spaces other than Houston. For the next month until my...
Read more02 Apr, 2015
shukria / thank you…
02 Apr, 2015
Today is a special day. One of the storytelling workshop participants, Sunita, has opened out her Crescent Oaks apartment for a final gathering. This past spring, during the workshop...
Read more24 Mar, 2015
i think i’ve given up on the idea of one place being home for me…
24 Mar, 2015
photo by Salma Qazi Spending spring break at our family friend Shaista’s home in California’s Bay Area is a welcome break from our hectic Houston schedule. One afternoon, as...
Read more13 Mar, 2015
students share stories…
13 Mar, 2015
Photo by Michelle Garcia Baker Ripley Community Center bustles this Thursday morning since many activities are being organized around campus for a national reporter site-visit. I drop off VBB’s...
Read more09 Mar, 2015
celebrating international women’s day…
09 Mar, 2015
Today, International Women’s Day, is cold and rainy day. As I adjust to the spring time change, I reflect on the women’s workshops I’ve been offering in Houston’s Gulfton...
Read more06 Mar, 2015
my challenge is how to move and yet make sure the children get their time with their grandmothers…
06 Mar, 2015
After I close out a meeting with Ana Mac Naught, Community Developer at Baker Ripley Neighborhood Center — where I’ve been running a women’s workshop and am now planning...
Read more16 Feb, 2015
i need to be here right now to get my daughters through their education…
16 Feb, 2015
Sometimes, I get my hair touched up at Ruby’s salon on Harwin Drive, around the corner from Hillcroft. I go to the same place for threading and waxing, and...
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