The statement below (written collaboratively by Diya Bose, Alicia Vogl Saenz, and me) was read in the order of writers above: Jamie Asaye Fitzgerald, Alicia Vogl Saenz, Elline Lipkin, Manuela Traude Gomez, Diya...
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30 Jul, 2019
macondo2019 after a tough take-off…
30 Jul, 2019
Workshop participants Reyna Grande, Macarena Hernández, Olivia Meña, Amelia María de la Luz Montes and partner, Liliana Valenzuela, Fan Wu, and Macondo board member Pat Aldrete with Sandra Cisneros and Ruth Behar at Liberty Bar “I’m...
Read more09 Mar, 2019
global standout for peace / LA…
09 Mar, 2019
poster designed by Priyali Sur Last week, as fear of war between Pakistan and India, two nuclear-armed countries, remained a viable threat, activists around the globe organized to call...
Read more16 Feb, 2019
“faluda islam” at discostan…
16 Feb, 2019
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 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 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 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 more04 May, 2017
borderlines book launch…
04 May, 2017
photo by Jimmy Castillo I spend a fleeting two days in Houston to kick off Voices Breaking Boundaries’ latest publication, Borderlines Volume Three. The publication, co-edited by Margot Backus...
Read more27 Mar, 2017
no borders, no walls….
27 Mar, 2017
a fence dividing two nations To celebrate spring break, the family and I drive down the coastline to visit San Diego. On our last morning, we dip down to...
Read more03 Feb, 2017
VBB’s upcoming publication…
03 Feb, 2017
Borderlines Volume Two; image by Veer Munshi, cover design by Angela Martinez Now more than ever it’s important to push past rising walls. In about a month, Voices Breaking...
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