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 more06 Mar, 2015
16 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 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 more15 Jan, 2015
home is a space where you don’t have to watch out for proper behavior or ways to be…
15 Jan, 2015
As I’ve worked on my What Is Home? project, I’ve recorded many conversations with my mother Zakia Sarwar about her multiple migrations – from North India to Lahore, Pakistan...
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...
Read more05 Dec, 2014
“home” is where you go when you’ve lost everything…
05 Dec, 2014
On a quiet Thursday morning after sharing tea with eL Seed and Asad Ali Jafri – who are visiting Houston as part of the Mitchell Center’s Intersections project at Doshi...
Read more19 Nov, 2014
“home” is my family…
19 Nov, 2014
In a conversation over coffee at Café Brasil, Maha Khan talks about home: For me, “home” is my family – a sense of belonging that has warmth because of...
Read more14 Nov, 2014
“home” is where you’ve been the happiest…
14 Nov, 2014
Over a snack-lunch of papri-chat, bhel-puri and Bombay roll at Sri Pavan Bhavan on Houston’s Hillcroft Avenue, Zeba Shah – after being away from Houston for several years during...
Read more07 Nov, 2014
it’s taken time for me to be okay with being in-between…
07 Nov, 2014
Shirin Herman, who works with Houston Independent Services’ Refugee Program, talks about her personal journey: At this point in my life, Houston is home; being with my husband at...
Read more