The woman in the photo is wearing no clothes. She has light brown skin, lighter than me, and her dark hair is swept back in a wave. Her breasts are emblazoned with the message “Made in Bangladesh.” It’s not shocking to me – I too am a child of diaspora, an American Bengali or Bengali […]
I want to lighten it up a little as we enter this week. I’ve been writing on heavy topics (both on the blog and in my private writing) because it’s better to let them out than to keep them rattling around in my head. However, I think we all deserve a good diet of sweet […]
Image via Feministing I got a news alert at 12:30am telling me that Georgia executed Troy Davis. I should have just rolled over and went back to sleep, but I lay awake, staring out of windows and wondering what could have prevented this. I was not personally affected by this case – heck, I only […]
(Emoticon courtesy of Link3Kokiri on DeviantArt) Anger is an emotion that I have lived with forever, and many times I have felt consumed by it. When I fail to complete a small task or end up late at a meeting, I feel the anger reflected inward towards myself. When I view injustice towards women, Muslims, […]
Today, I’m giving a brief list, in no particular order, of expectations I have of the U.S. government. So brief, in fact, that I will constrain myself to one pithy sentence each – which will be a strain on my typically long-winded writing style. Here it goes. 1. Keep AT&T from absorbing T-Mobile because its […]
Yes, we can. And we did.That is the mantra that is going through my head every moment after the presidential results were announced last night. We fought and won. It’s so amazing. I just… I had so much emotion last night at the election party. It was just so great to see that amazing number […]
As the teacher’s strike barrels into the end of its second week, people are starting to frustrate me to no end.After hearing all the different opinions from either side, I went to the open meeting at Samammish to listen to people speak their grievances and the board to explain themselves [which they didn’t do much […]
I have arrived home after a week and a half of our two-person crazy fest. Shouting/taking pictures/watching Current TV/dancing/clashing over musical tastes/changing clothes 50 bajillion times/talking until late hours about everything – that was the vacation time. I think we got a little bit on each other’s nerves, but that’s probably because I’m more surly […]