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