By sheer coincidence, we find a public school in Pasadena that offers similar programs to those in Minal’s Houston school – her new school is International Baccalaureate and also...
Read more15 Aug, 2016
08 Aug, 2016
dismantling helmut’s designer coffee table…
08 Aug, 2016
Packing and dismantling objects that we have collected for decades is more exhausting than I envisioned. In the past, I have either packed a suitcase and flown, or thrown...
Read more03 Jul, 2015
from sydney…
03 Jul, 2015
Dr. Ruqaiya Hasan, Hong Kong, Feb 2015; photo by Lexie Don When our flight lands in Auckland, I turn on my phone to find messages from my sister, who...
Read more11 May, 2015
afterwards…
11 May, 2015
audience members at the Baker Ripley Community Center; photo by Paul Hester A month has floated away, and I’m still processing my What Is Home? production, one that took...
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 more07 May, 2015
essay in gray matters…
07 May, 2015
photograph of my 2009 “Listening from Within” installation dedicated to my father, Dr. Mohammad Sarwar; photo by Eric Hester An excerpt from my longer essay “That Long Monday Afternoon”...
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 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 more07 Apr, 2015
i think of windows when i think of home…
07 Apr, 2015
I meet up with my friends Sally, Beverly and Yolanda, who I know through many Houston-based spaces and organizations including Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and the University of Houston’s...
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