video excerpt by Ayesha Kamran; La Zona Rosa club in downtown Los Angeles Last weekend, some friends and I attended Discostan, a monthly event in downtown LA that was founded by filmmaker and DJ Arshia Haq, to...
Read more16 Feb, 2019
15 Feb, 2019
one coup per dictator…
15 Feb, 2019
A decade ago while I was in Karachi, I captured this graffiti scrawl in Karachi. Today, as Trump declares national emergency to enforce the creation of “a wall,” I...
Read more24 Jan, 2019
black wings…
24 Jan, 2019
a section of the cover of my novel, Black Wings; images by Minal Saldivar and collage by Oskar Sonnen Behind every story is another story. The new cover of...
Read more23 Jan, 2019
protesting for equal education for all…
23 Jan, 2019
teachers picketing outside Burbank Middle School, Highland Park, Los Angeles The teachers’ strike in Los Angeles started last week and stretched for six long days, encompassing some of the...
Read more19 Jan, 2019
women’s march, year three…
19 Jan, 2019
This morning, just like two years ago, Minal and I met up with my writer friend Elline Lipkin at Sierra Madre Villa’s metro station, so we could attend the...
Read more10 Jan, 2019
barbed wire…
10 Jan, 2019
barbed wire rolled around iron-wrought fence Close to where I currently live is a park, next to which is a public high school. A US Marines headquarters building sits at the edge...
Read more07 Jan, 2019
new work in papercuts’ nomad issue…
07 Jan, 2019
In summer 2018, writer Sorayya Khan invited me to submit new work to Desi Writer’s Lounge’s latest Papercuts issue, Nomad. The online publication was launched on December 31, 2018,...
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