L: Artist Mel Chin; R: Cover of good, designed by Mel Chin (2000) I met Mel Chin twenty-two years ago when I was invited to submit an essay for...
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04 Jun, 2021
gaza sunset…
04 Jun, 2021
photo of sunset over Gaza by Hadeel Assali This morning, I called Hadeel Assali, a friend from Houston, Texas who recently defended her dissertation at Columbia University. I had...
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say their names. . .
19 Mar, 2021
Four days after six women of Asian descent were murdered by a white supremacist in Atlanta, the mainstream media is barely releasing the women’s names. Few details about the...
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a year has passed…
13 Mar, 2021
my family began the year by ordering black and gray masks but have now accumulated patterns that we can match with our clothes One year has slipped away since...
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south asian writers resist…
01 Feb, 2021
zoom screenshot featuring: (top row L to R): Beyond Baroque Executive Director Quentin Ring, me, Shreerekha Subramanian; (middle row L to R): Mahmud Rahman, Torsa Ghosal, Neelanjana Banerjee; (bottom...
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