Most of the interviews I’ve undertaken for my project have been with friends and family who were born in spaces other than Houston. For the next month until my...
Read more03 Apr, 2015
02 Apr, 2015
shukria / thank you…
02 Apr, 2015
Today is a special day. One of the storytelling workshop participants, Sunita, has opened out her Crescent Oaks apartment for a final gathering. This past spring, during the workshop...
Read more24 Mar, 2015
i think i’ve given up on the idea of one place being home for me…
24 Mar, 2015
photo by Salma Qazi Spending spring break at our family friend Shaista’s home in California’s Bay Area is a welcome break from our hectic Houston schedule. One afternoon, as...
Read more13 Mar, 2015
students share stories…
13 Mar, 2015
Photo by Michelle Garcia Baker Ripley Community Center bustles this Thursday morning since many activities are being organized around campus for a national reporter site-visit. I drop off VBB’s...
Read more09 Mar, 2015
celebrating international women’s day…
09 Mar, 2015
Today, International Women’s Day, is cold and rainy day. As I adjust to the spring time change, I reflect on the women’s workshops I’ve been offering in Houston’s Gulfton...
Read more06 Mar, 2015
my challenge is how to move and yet make sure the children get their time with their grandmothers…
06 Mar, 2015
After I close out a meeting with Ana Mac Naught, Community Developer at Baker Ripley Neighborhood Center — where I’ve been running a women’s workshop and am now planning...
Read more16 Feb, 2015
i need to be here right now to get my daughters through their education…
16 Feb, 2015
Sometimes, I get my hair touched up at Ruby’s salon on Harwin Drive, around the corner from Hillcroft. I go to the same place for threading and waxing, and...
Read more14 Feb, 2015
“at home” is where you know people, where you have friends…
14 Feb, 2015
photo by Maha Shahid Based in Boston where my sister Beena Sarwar has been for the last four years, she’s happy to spend a week in Houston and get...
Read more08 Feb, 2015
freedom on the streets…
08 Feb, 2015
photo by Minal Saldivar As we drive up the freeway ramp, I notice that the freeway shack that Minal and I documented a few months ago has been “torn...
Read more04 Feb, 2015
essay about my short trip to delhi…
04 Feb, 2015
snacks outside a Delhi train station My essay, No Borders: Delhi Twenty-Five Years Later about my travels to Delhi appeared in Aman Ki Asha, a print and online newspaper...
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