Asterisms

Bamboo Wedding

It was a quiet day at the admissions office at NYU. Somwattie and Devika stood…

Review: White-eye Bird – The Vegetarian by Han Kang

‘Shorn of its ceremony the body is, at best, a torn, riven thing – covered…

the world we choose, the world we love

  for Nicole Kaltz Pears ripen. The turtle crosses a walking path to her nesting…

A Love Song of a Dance

Following Sowmya’s dance debut there were angry letters to the editor in The Indian Standard.…

Difficult Women
On Being a Difficult Woman: Roxane Gay, Salma Hayek, Jessica Williams, and Radical Discomfort

When I was sixteen years old, the National Hispanic Institute nominated me to attend a…

Remedios: Breaking the Frame: Dreaming Into the Urgent Now

After years of high profile, extra-judicial killings of black people, I was struck by how…

Two Poems

  Oops!   Careful we have to be : Opening the door , Getting our…

Missing America: On Leonard Cohen

In the summer of 1991, I took a long bus ride from Kaniv in the…

Two Drawings In Response to Viramontes’ Novel, Cemetery Boys.

While listening to Helena Maria Viramontes read from her book, Cemetery Boys at Alphabet City/City of Asylum…

Call Me Soft

On a warm August night in Brussels, a curator, Orient, of feminist inclination, dressed up…