Glitter, black eyeliner and two of the finest dancers I've ever seen equals a pretty damn good Thursday. Director Raeshem Nijhon's beautiful art film, Dark Water, is pure visual seduction. Featuring professional dancer-photographer Nilaya Sabnis and dancer Reshma Gajjar, the video is an interplay between two adorned…
Hey Group Thinkers, I wrote this when I was feeling too in my head, not enough in my body. We forget when we're hustling just to keep on with our work and art to breathe, fall and be animals.
I posted this super late-night, as I tend toward insomnia. Here's the Etymology of Whore for any folks that might've missed it. This is the first of many evocative, old, worn and complex words I'll be studying by mapping and connecting...Good writing exercise, I find.
Words travel across continents and eons of time. I wanted to start a series of etymological visual exercises that explain how words evolve through language.
We've all known lovers skilled in the bedroom that can't engage in philosophical conversation. Intellectual stimulation does wonders for stirring up intrigue, but how important is a potential mate's intellect to our sexual desire? Great conversations might lead to a midnight foray, but could someone's braininess…
Here's a piece I wrote for the amazing The Feminist Wire.
Here's the piece I wrote about Nina Davuluri's win, and how as a brown lady in the States—it's complicated!
As the 12 year Reign of Bloomberg grinds to a halt, we New Yorkers are starting to hear the pitter patter of mayoral candidate hype. You've got Christine Quinn, the lesbian City Council Speaker whose propensity for raging gripes and punishment has slighted Dems and fellow LGBTQ constituents. (She apparently cut funds…
My friend, muse and dancer, Desiree Godsell and I shot this at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She and I wanted to explore the new blossoms and greenery in some sort of flora goddess worship way. The end result draws inspiration from Octavia Butler, African American futurist and science fiction writer, and uses the…
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto in a patent infringement case, reminding us how crazy it is to patent life forms. Seeds have been harvested and saved for generations, since the beginning of agriculture, and women the world over have been instrumental in saving seeds that have given us diversity and…
The time difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh is ten hours ahead of New York City. Since I spent time living in New Delhi, I've always felt that one side of the world lives through an entire day, while the other side slowly catches up. The side which concludes the day first is wiser and more embittered, while the other is…
