by Vijaya Nagarajan | Apr 30, 2020 | Personal Essays
April 30, 2020 The Moral Imagination of a Refrigerator By Vijaya Nagarajan It was 1993 and I was living in the beautiful city of Madurai in southern India, filled with the scent of fresh jasmine flowers woven into the hair of Tamil women’s braids. I was there on a...
by Aya de Leon | Apr 29, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
You’re only as sick as your secrets. I am fat, Black, and female. And it was at the intersection of these identities that I learned about fat and the body—what would become my fat body and the bodies of others. Latina women, Black women, white women, and other women...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Apr 15, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays, Reviews
The erosion of everyday life as we have never imagined it before. We can see potential death all around us, as we do the most normal things we know how to do. Breathing. Touching. Learning to talk with a 6-foot distance between us, “Two shopping carts long,” the...
by Aya de Leon | Apr 13, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Last week was hard. The conservative majority on the highest Wisconsin state court ruled that their citizens would be forced to risk death in a pandemic in order to vote. This, in spite of an injunction by the WI Governor to delay the primary and have citizens vote by...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Apr 1, 2020 | Personal Essays
Coronavirus Lockdown Sends Migrant Workers On A Long And Risky Trip Home–NPR Over the past week, Indian men and women of all ages, including families and elders, have been migrating out of the urban centers of Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai. Hundreds of...
by Aya de Leon | Mar 30, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Yesterday, author Twitter blew up over the issue of payments to writers. According to Publishing Weekly, “the Internet Archive unilaterally granted itself emergency powers to lend a corpus of over 1.4 million ebooks without any restrictions, contrary to its own stated...
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