I Want To Stop Counting But I Don’t Know How
I turned 36, five days ago. All I feel is lost, formless, restless.
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Where We Preen And Talk About Our Hair A Lot
I’m a vain peacock in the most obvious way possible.
I love my hair.
BOOK: A Pinch Of Nutmeg – Christine Ambrosius
A review of Christine Ambrosius’ “A Pinch of Nutmeg”
Dark Girls Have All The Fun
It’s the ultimate rejection of everything India thinks about dark women.
BOOK: In The Last Chance Saloon
The first time time I read ‘The Last Chance Saloon’, I didn’t like what it did to me. Which is not to say that I didn’t like it.
The Dating Thing: A Performance
I’ve started to figure that Performance Poetry or Spoken Word does not have to conform to specific rules. I’m choosing to interpret the form as an oral sharing of an idea, an emotion or a story. This could rhyme or not, it could involve gestures or not, could include voice…
Why I’m Not Protesting The #IndiasDaughter Ban
BBC India filmed a documentary about the 2012 Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) gangrape. The Indian government banned it. #IndiasDaughter
Old Healed Wounds That Ache In Bad Weather
At the Performance Poetry workshop I attended yesterday, we looked at some videos of performers. One of them had a few notes playing in the background and the performer speaking in a characteristic singsong, often-rhyming style. I blurted out, “But that’s rap!” The others smiled and told me that rap…
The Game – Neil Strauss: Negging & Begging
A pick-up artist wrote a book called ‘The Game’ and he may as well have called it, ‘A little negging, a lot of begging’.
Buzzfeed’s Imaan Sheikh & Rape Culture
Imaan Sheikh was the name on Twitter’s buzz because of a screenshot of her tweets from three years earlier.