Oskar and René at TC drag show When I first told Minal that our friends Oskar and René were getting married and that Oskar invited me to serve as...
Read more10 Nov, 2015
27 Oct, 2015
a bachelor party..
27 Oct, 2015
MC Alexis Nicole Whitney Despite my years of being entrenched in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, I’ve never attended a drag show. But last night – even as I received flash...
Read more08 May, 2015
one more day…
08 May, 2015
laying out final excerpts from my memoir before documents are sent to Oskar to layout The last few weeks have been filled with meals as I spend time with...
Read more30 Apr, 2015
people don’t talk about the necessity of crossing…
30 Apr, 2015
Karen Martinez, a filmmaker and a recent college graduate, talks about “home” and crossing borders: Houston is my home. I was born in Tula, Hidalgo – Mexico – and...
Read more26 Apr, 2015
an earthquake and student voices…
26 Apr, 2015
Sagar’s apartment ceiling After a sleepless night, I wake up to read a text message by Hemangi, a Westbury High School student who participated in my storytelling workshop: Did...
Read more25 Apr, 2015
another assassination…
25 Apr, 2015
July 2007: L: Sabeen Mahmud at T2F; R: I offer my first reading at T2F My mobile phone ringer goes off while I’m at a lunch meeting. I glance...
Read more16 Apr, 2015
a lesson i learned about being desi and american is that boundaries are made up…
16 Apr, 2015
Zarana Sanghani, who recently returned to Houston after graduate school and working New York, talks about the issue of “home” – a subject that’s close to her heart: Feeling...
Read more14 Apr, 2015
you have to find home within yourself…
14 Apr, 2015
My friend Gordon talks about his sense of home as we drink tea and sip smoothies just a few blocks from his house in Freedmen’s Town, where he and...
Read more12 Jan, 2015
i’d feel more at “home” here if there were more people involved in the arts…
12 Jan, 2015
In a conversation with one of my oldest and dearest friends, “Justin” (name changed for personal reasons), I’m not surprised to hear his words: My deepest feelings of “home”...
Read more02 Jan, 2015
home is a space that I create for myself and not one that’s defined for me …
02 Jan, 2015
Filmmaker Yunuen Perez Vertti drops by my Houston house to eat a meal prepared by my mother. A native of Mexico City, Yunuen lived for a decade in Houston...
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