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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12 Dec, 2014
home is where it’s not always a comfortable path…
12 Dec, 2014
I am introduced to artist Masooma Syed by family friend and artist Salima Hashmi, who knows Masooma through Lahore, where Masooma grew up. Currently based in Delhi and married...
Read more03 Dec, 2014
the space for “home” is moveable…
03 Dec, 2014
My friend Kairn Klieman responds to questions about home: Home is feeling relaxed and free and at ease–hidden from all of life’s demands. It feels cuddly. Home is not...
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 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 more18 Oct, 2014
i feel at “home” when I’m relaxed and comfortable…
18 Oct, 2014
I converse with my friend/social worker/fellow-mother Stephanie, as we wait for our children to wrap-up soccer practice. I feel at “home” when I’m relaxed and comfortable, and able to...
Read more15 Oct, 2014
for me, “home” means being around family wherever family is…
15 Oct, 2014
Part of my What Is Home? project includes raising question (with a few more thrown in, thanks to my friends Jaspal and Yaksha) to family members, friends and others...
Read more01 Sep, 2014
reflections on ferguson and gaza…
01 Sep, 2014
In her August 28, 2014 essay “On growing up in Ferguson and Palestine” published in the Washington Post, poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes: In Ferguson, an invisible line separated...
Read more19 Apr, 2010
patti smith in houston!…
19 Apr, 2010
I first met Patti Smith in La Guardia Airport in 2003 when she was on her way to Houston to install her Strange Messenger exhibition and perform in a special...
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