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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Disco Child

Galleyway * July 2020

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Screenshots from Quarantine

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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Why I Left My White Therapist

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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Men Loiter, Women Cloister

Open City * January 2016

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A Stranger in Our Midst

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 Trials of Purvi Patel

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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Little Pakistan's Mission Man

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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The Virtue of Visibility

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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City of Echoes

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