At the beginning of every new semester, my shelves are graced with the delicate smells of the paper factory and the used bookstore. Thick textbooks and reprints of novels I haven’t read come in waves through our mail system, and even two weeks in I am still receiving packages loaded down with titles like And […]
This week, rather than focusing on a specific book, article, movie, or art piece that touched me, I want to give a list of all the things that have gotten me through this week and continue to make me feel strong in a time of great weakness. In different ways, for different reasons, these pieces […]
Yesterday, I wrote up my retrospective of 2011, so today I offer you some further great reading to reflect on for the year – pieces I’ve loved and wanted to follow up with. Here’s to a new year and new material to come! Guest postsI’ve been submitting several pieces into the larger internet world this […]
Image via DesiStudios This movie came out in 1996, and I didn’t hear about it until college. Clearly, I was deprived of some amazing works of art in my youth. Fire is a movie about two Indian women who are in arranged marriages within the same family; the marriages are loveless and often they must […]
The Date is my favorite episode! Find yours at the ABG website. I love this video series. When I need a good laugh (in between art projects and experiments) I turn to Issa Rae’s fantastic series to brighten my day. So why’s it so great? Here’s a rundown: Awkward Black Girl is a mini-soap opera […]
Muslimah Media Watch gives a great perspective on voices that are not often allowed to speak in either Western or global media: Muslim women. They bring together broad opinions about representation with very focused stories on the impact of decisions by governing bodies on Muslim women (such as FIFA’s treatment of the Iranian womens’ soccer […]
The Uniform Project is truly where fashion meets activism. It is an interesting project in that it took the deceptively simple challenge of wearing one black dress every day for a year and made it a metaphor that people could invest in – bringing kids the money they needed to go to school. TEDxDubai 2010| […]
This week, I read Colonize This!, a book of essays by women of color about their experiences finding – and molding – feminism. I read this book (394 pages) within four days – not just because the library due date was coming up, but because I was absorbed in the stories of these amazing women […]
This American Life Episode 435. This week, I am featuring one of my favorite episodes of This American Life! I listen to most of my podcasts while walking and/or jetting off to the next location, and This American Life always provides me with both entertainment and food for thought. This episode in particular really got […]
As I was trying to rouse myself from a literary stupor this week, I searched around the internet for some inspiration to fill myself up until I could no longer stand the feeling of not writing. One of the articles that I came across that most inspired me was The Rumpus‘ column Dear Sugar. Dear […]