Born Liminal: The Internal and External Displacement of a Third Culture Kid Experience
An essay I wrote in 2016 about not being able to fly after a TCK lifetime of airplane travel.
Tag: Racism
The Sexism and Whitewashing in ‘IT’ is More Disturbing Than Pennywise
And while Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise is interesting and different from Tim Curry’s iconic one, he is not enough to redeem this movie.
Stop Shooting Brown People — Whether They’re Muslims or Not
“The fact that President Trump refuses to condemn these hate crimes across the board in a timely manner only emboldens those who have their own crimes in the works.” For Wear Your Voice Mag, March 2017.
The Complicated and Sometimes Racist History of Referring to South Asians as “East Indian”
“Ultimately, the term ‘East Indian’ is a remnant of archaic geopolitical Eurocentric positioning and shouldn’t be used at all in a modern context, unless you are talking about people from the eastern part of India. To use it in any other context is playing to Orientalist — and yes, racist — othering of not only people from India, but also Native American populations throughout North America who shouldn’t still be called ‘Indian’ at all.” For Wear Your Voice Mag, Jan 2017.
Suicide Squad Is The Perfect Garbage Movie To Describe Garbage Year 2016
The title says it all. My 45th article for Huffington Post.