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Tag Archive: expat+HAREM
The economics of migration, Alice Awards and other updates
Updates on my new guest posts live at the expat+HAREM and The Displaced Nation as well as the Alice Award I won, and more!
My Foreign Body
My newest guest post for the stellar expat+HAREM poses the question: Do warm places make warmer people?
Remnants
The looming memorial of the September 11, 2001 tragedy has me thinking about things left behind.
“With/out borders” on the expat+HAREM
My newest expat+HAREM post, “With/out borders”, is featured on their beautiful site for the next week.
Whites Only?
A She Writes blog post by an African-American woman calling for “White Ambassadors To Help Me Cross Over” provokes a blog series, in which this piece is one of seven reactions.
A Love Letter To Beloved Dead
My friend Catherine’s amazing expat+HAREM post “Death at a distance”, one of the most powerful essays I have ever read, has left me processing a great deal of unresolved grief.
Self-Referentiality: Internal monologue turned external dialogue
What do the expat+HAREM, Dialogue 2010 and Lady Gaga have in common?
Why?
An explosive encounter with a racist Czech granny prompts me to once again consider why it is I continue to live in Prague.
What’s In A Name?
The name on my birth certificate reads Sezin Piotruszewicz Menekshe Rajandran. I was named with the same initials as my grandfather on my father’s side, SPM Rajandran. He died just months before I was born, and in fact my mom was so upset at his funeral that her amniotic sack tore and she might have…
Intimate Strangers
The first in a series of reflections on the incredible Dialogue 2010, curated by Rose Deniz and on the topic of hybrid identities and location.
Fear Of Flying
In 1973 Erica Jong wrote the feminist anthem, Fear Of Flying. The heroine, Isadora, though terrified of flying, boards a plane and her subsequent journey leads to a spiritual and sexual awakening that was the one of the first of its kind in print. Jong’s thesis is that the fear of flying is the fear…
Inside Outsider: An expat+HAREM Guest Blog
My first ever guest blog has gone live at expat+HAREM, a neo-cultural hub for expats and voyagers. http://www.expatharem.com/2010/02/25/the-inside-outsider/
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