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...
Read more21 Feb, 2022
25 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 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 more13 Mar, 2021
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...
Read more14 Nov, 2020
six-feet-apart….
14 Nov, 2020
Six-feet-apart signage in Los Angeles at a health clinic, a grocery store and at a taqueria When the pandemic first broke out, signs were temporary—masking tape for pickup lines...
Read more16 Sep, 2020
burning up…
16 Sep, 2020
More than 30 fires are burning up along the Pacific coastline. Closer to us, the Bobcat fire started up on September 6, and expanded from 33,000 acres to 45,000...
Read more25 Jun, 2020
kendrec mcdade’s last words: “why did they shoot me?”…
25 Jun, 2020
L: Black Lives Matter poster designed by Minal; R: a poster at the Juneteenth protest “This is where he began to run,” Jasmine, a Black Lives Matter-Pasadena representative, spoke...
Read more31 May, 2020
to the helicopter reporter who referred to the men ransacking the adidas store as “cockroaches”…”
31 May, 2020
To the NBC4 helicopter reporter who referred to the men ransacking the adidas store as “cockroaches:” Last night, I watched as you offered commentary from your helicopter about the...
Read more24 Apr, 2020
“the present is a transit lounge…”
24 Apr, 2020
Arundhati Roy talking with Imani Perry on YouTube; organized by Haymarket Books Yesterday morning, I disrupted my schedule to listen to Arundhati Roy’s conversation with Imani Perry, The Pandemic...
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