readings, performances, other appearances
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Illusions // They Named Me Shadow
Forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue * 2024
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Notes on Possibly Dreaming Ways Home
Rowayat * April 2023
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Bourbon Milk Punch & Gold Dresses for the Revolution
Bellingham Review * November 2020
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Galleyway * July 2020
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Arts in Education Roundtable Blog * June 2020
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On Foolishness, or Desire: A List of Eleven Truths
Porter Gulch Review * June 2019
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the fool {a cutting}
The Felt, Glam’r Issue * May 2018
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Cul-de-Sac
Go Home! (Feminist Press) * March 2018
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Bodegas Are Where People See You
CNN.com * September 2017
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What the Uber Scandal Says About US
CNN.com * June 2017
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Filing Cabinet of Sorries
The Felt, Alternative Realities Issue * May 2017
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VICE * January 2017
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How Santeria Brings Hope to New Yorkers Who Need it Most
BuzzFeed Reader * September 2016
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This Alumna is Ready for Olympian Combat
Duke Magazine * June 2016
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There Can Be No Sex in Bollywood
BuzzFeed Reader * April 2016
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Prepping for My First Marathon Meant Running Through India's Rape Culture
BuzzFeed Reader * March 2016
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Open City * January 2016
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Open City * October 2015
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Good Girls Don't Say Such Things
The Margins * September 2015
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Shattering Silence in Banglatown
Open City * September 2015
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An Ode to the (Vanishing) Bodega
The Brooklyn Quarterly * August 2015
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Shedding the Security of Her Hair
Duke Magazine * July 2015
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What if Roy Lichtenstein Watched Desi Soaps
India Abroad * July 2015
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Ganesh & Kali: Seeing Myself in a Feminist Artist's Goddess of Destruction
The Feminist Wire * May 2015
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The Great Brooklyn Mojari Hunt
Open City * May 2015
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The Brooklyn Quarterly * May 2015
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Indian American Woman Sentenced to Prison for Feticide
India Abroad * April 2015
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They Do Not Do Silence: Transgender Poetry Duo DarkMatter
India Abroad * February 2015
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Open City * December 2014
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Narendra Modi in New York: The Protests
India Abroad * October 2014
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Racism's Past & Present in Ferguson
The Brooklyn Quarterly * August 2014
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Breaking the Silence Around Caste in the US
India Abroad * August 2014
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Coolie Woman: Behind the C Word
CIMA Magazine * January 2014
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The Anatomy of Muslim Masculinity
India Abroad * August 2013
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Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality
The Feminist Wire * May 2013
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Legacy of a Centenary: 100 Years of Indian Cinema
India Abroad * May 2013
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Helter Skelter * January 2013
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brown girl + the white savior industrial complex
Digital Natives with a Cause * December 2012
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Malkha: Going Back to the Days of Spinning Glory
The Alternative * August 2012
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Viral Fever: Kony & Slacktivism
The Sunday Guardian * April 2012
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Are Kurtas Too Casual For Work?
Wall Street Journal * March 2012
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Voices from Koodankulam
The Alternative * March 2012
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Koodankulam: How We Got Here
The Alternative * February 2012
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Requiem for a Dream: The Making of Taj Mahal Foxtrot
The Sunday Guardian * January 2012
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When Silence Becomes Audible: Women Bloggers Across Language Borders
The Alternative * November 2011
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OPEN The Magazine * November 2011
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Back of the House: The Struggle to Move Up in Chicago's Segregated Kitchens
Gaper's Block * October 2011
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Girls Fight Gender Discrimination, Shed Unwanted Names
Associated Press * October 2011
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exhibitions & published visual art
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Porter Gulch Review * 2019
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Project for Empty Space * 2018
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Pratt Writing MFA Visual Arts Showcase
The Space * 2018
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residencies & fellowships
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Kweli Journal Fellowship Program
2021
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Good Contrivance Farm Writers' Retreat
March 2021
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Voices of our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA)
June 2020
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Vermont Studio Center
February 2019
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Marble House Project
March 2018
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Project For Empty Space Feminist Incubator
2017-2018
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BuzzFeed Emerging Writers' Fellowship
2016
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Ace Hotel Artist-in-Residence Program
February 2016
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Asian American Writers' Workshop Open City Fellowship
2014-2015