Five Reasons to See This Year’s South Asian Film Festival
Still from Tanuj Chopra’s ‘Brown Girl Stoner Film’ (working title). (Courtesy: Chops Films) By Lakshmi Sarah OCTOBER 23, 2015 This article originally appeared in KQED Arts One of the first … Continue reading
New Map Charts Changing Landscape for Arts in Bay Area
By Lakshmi Sarah OCTOBER 20, 2015 This article originally appeared in KQED Arts https://kqedarts.cartodb.com/viz/2f206b60-76a0-11e5-b346-0e3ff518bd15/embed_map With the rising cost of living in the Bay Area, arts organizations across the region have … Continue reading
5 Lessons We Can Learn from the Long Life of Activist Grace Lee Boggs
OCTOBER 6, 2015 This article originally appeared on KQED Arts Author, activist and feminist, Grace Lee Boggs passed away yesterday at the ripe age of 100 years old. After seeing Boggs … Continue reading
True Stories of Being Black in Germany
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 This article originally appeared in KQED Arts At San Francisco’s Goethe Institut, Homestory Deutschland presents photographs of Afro-German men and women alongside their achievements in various areas of … Continue reading
Do these statements make India’s Prime Minister look sexist?
This originally appeared in AJ+ Medium Warning: Satire. The following includes direct quotes from India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, followed by a possible interpretation of his thoughts. Is Modi clueless … Continue reading
India’s Heat Wave Is Now the 5th Deadliest in the World
This post originally appeared in Global Voices. Heat is a constant phenomenon across much of India during summertime, but the country’s most recent heat wave has killed over 2,300 people … Continue reading
You wouldn’t think we’d have to publish a non-white reading list.
For AJ+ on Medium #AJPlusReads: Our “Don’t call it an ’alternative’” alternative book list We weren’t impressed with The New York Times summer reading list. Not only were all the … Continue reading
What’s racist about dots and feathers?
For AJ+ on Medium “Dot or feather?” is a racist idiom sometimes heard in conversation in the U.S., when asking or joking about whether someone is of South Asian or … Continue reading
Thoughts from Nepal: Trying to remember what normal feels like
Compiled for AJ+ on Medium A collapsed house is pictured after the April 25 earthquake in Kathmandu May 10, 2015. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar “It just feels like Nepal has been … Continue reading
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