L: Photo of tents by Quratulain Bakhtiari along a street in Sindh (August); R: Image from a helicopter by Haris Gazdar of submerged fields in Dadu district (September) In...
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12 Apr, 2022
visiting new and old corners of houston…
12 Apr, 2022
Sections of murals by Genzo; (L) Tu Lucha; (R) Every Beautiful Poem “Women’s rights are human rights,” said Dr. Sima Samar when talking about the future of Afghan women...
Read more21 Feb, 2022
telling our own stories. . .
21 Feb, 2022
Found art collage by Minal, Karachi 2013; materials: flower petals, leaf, photographed on red floor Yesterday, my essay, My Chicana-South Asian daughter, finding her roots in Karachi and south...
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love in the time of omicron…
02 Feb, 2022
L: Roasted corn, camel, and sunset (photo by Minal S); R: With siblings, cousins, and Ammi at Usman’s mehndi celebration My two weeks in Karachi were punctuated with wedding...
Read more25 Dec, 2021
flying to the moon …
25 Dec, 2021
A long line ahead of Minal and me on a cold and rainy morning as we waited to get tested for COVID so we could fly today Even though...
Read more21 Oct, 2021
last weekend to see “on belonging – community responses to home and the pandemic”…
21 Oct, 2021
Photos by Milly Correa Hernandez Almost three weeks have slipped away since one of my On Belonging – community responses to home and the pandemic installations was stolen /...
Read more07 Oct, 2021
theft/disappearance of my “on belonging – community responses to home and the pandemic” project. . .
07 Oct, 2021
L: “On Belonging – community responses to home and the pandemic” at McDonald Park; photo by a Pasadena parks employee; R: The live oak tree after being stripped of...
Read more24 Sep, 2021
discostan for afghanistan …
24 Sep, 2021
Afghan dancer Samira Karami at Discostan’s fundraiser for Afghan refugees Last Saturday, I felt as if the pandemic had slipped away when I joined more than 500 bodies at...
Read more16 Aug, 2021
afghanistan, haiti, covid . . .
16 Aug, 2021
Like most people I know, all week I was tracking the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. And as predicted by many, yesterday morning, I woke up to a new headline:...
Read more04 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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