Tag Archive: expat+HAREM

Remnants

The looming memorial of the September 11, 2001 tragedy has me thinking about things left behind.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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Self-Referentiality: Internal monologue turned external dialogue

What do the expat+HAREM, Dialogue 2010 and Lady Gaga have in common?

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Why?

An explosive encounter with a racist Czech granny prompts me to once again consider why it is I continue to live in Prague.

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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, ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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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