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Month: August 2011
Birds
Early Friday morning “Why are you on the roof? Get down!” “Chidhya phir aayege lautke. The birds are building a nest outside your window.” “Yay. They came back to say hi to me!” I exclaimed happily. “Say bye-bye.” “Nooooooooooo.” Whine. Read More …
Deconstructing the New DHS S-Comm Announcement
“ICE has determined that a [memorandum of agreement] is not required to activate or operate Secure Communities for any jurisdiction” — Director John Morton in letter to states saying no agreement is necessary on their part for S-COMM. I read Read More …
Negotiating Identity In Asian Spaces
“She’s white? What is she doing here?” For the past few weeks, I’ve had to wrestle with various different Asian-American spaces from the Bay Area Solidarity Summer (BASS) to the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) dinner to the Read More …
FanMail
My lovers from VDARE — a white supremacist site — sent us this present: Prerna Lal, [Email him] is a self described “Queer Fiji-Indian (South Asian) law student, writer, tech-geek, and riot maker.” He’s mentioned in Allan Wall’s column today, Read More …
Plantar fasciitis
Every day is an exercise in walking on shattered glass. Today was much worse. My feet cannot carry my growing weight. That may or may not be a metaphor. My heels are constantly throbbing. Sometimes the pain is more intense Read More …