"From an almost 20-year Frida devotee who has found solace, comfort, and kinship in my study of her life and work, here are some facts you might not have known about this powerful woman." For Wear Your Voice Magazine, July 2017.
Category: Women
Black and Brown Sisters Are Doing Visual Media For Themselves
"When the dominant visual media paradigm is one of hegemonic whiteness, there are a limited number of choices for women of color. Submit yourself to the hegemony and take whatever scraps casting agents, directors, producers throw at you even if they might be problematic. Or, smash that shit and begin carving out your own space. More and more black and brown women are choosing the latter, and it is glorious." For Wear Your Voice Mag, June 2017.
Silicon Valley And South Asian Communities Keep Protecting Misogynists. Why?
"After a South Asian tech CEO abused his wife and daughter, he only got a slap on the wrist. She faces ostracism. This has to change." For Wear Your Voice Mag, May 2017.
Desi-Founded, Women-Run Luminoustudios is Fighting the Film Industry’s Patriarchy Problem
“At Luminoustudios, we’re very passionate about shattering the glass ceiling and giving more opportunity to women in the film industry.” For Wear Your Voice Mag, May 2017.
This White Woman’s “Protest Saris” Are Peak Appropriation
"When brown women wear saris, salwar kameez or hijab, they are told to 'go home.' But when a white woman does it, she’s celebrated. That’s appropriation." For Wear Your Voice Magazine, May 2017.