I have joined the rest of the world in watching the horror in Mumbai over the last few days; seeing flames pour out of the windows of a hotel where my brother and I had a Christmas dinner in 2005. I join a lot of Indians, people, all over the world who are sad, angry, and [...]

My post workout elation this morning was ruined as the instructor began a familiar dire in these parts: what’s wrong with Doha, i.e. the country of Qatar. What was particularly disturbing to me was the tone of the conversation. As you know, I’m trained in postcolonial, or in other words, to be disturbed by feelings [...]

If you’ve seen the email forward of the guy on the bike, riding through traffic, on the back of his t shirt is the slogan "It’s called a white house for a reason" then you know some of the fallout from the election results. People are justifiably upset by this slogan and it’s racist underpinnings. [...]

Lately it seems that if you are without a child and a woman between the age of 25 – 25 then you’re society’s newest oddity. This is a funny realization because I qualify in this category, but more so because for most of the last seven years I qualified in another equally condemed status: single woman, no [...]