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BECAUSE Keynote 2014: Holding Hands

I was nineteen years old, at a party in college, and this friend of mine, Kira, had just broken up with her live-in boyfriend. I asked her…

Jun 13, 2020

Jun 13, 2020

The Arrival

San Francisco, Chicago, London: first days of April 2005

Jun 21, 2018

Jun 21, 2018

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The Body My Immigrant Parents May Never Understand

Sri Lankan writer and academic Mary Anne Mohanraj on writing erotica

Apr 3, 2018

The Body My Immigrant Parents May Never Understand

Apr 3, 2018

Easier to Pull Him Out

I phrased and rephrased, trying to find a way to tell my son’s first grade teacher what was likely to work with him, without making him…

Sep 15, 2016

Easier to Pull Him Out

Sep 15, 2016

The Window: On Writing, Cancer, Emotional Labor, and Time

There’s a quote in Lois McMaster Bujold’s novel, A Civil Campaign. Miles is talking to Ekaterin, the woman he loves, and he’s telling her…

Jul 26, 2016

The Window: On Writing, Cancer, Emotional Labor, and Time

Jul 26, 2016

Towards a More Welcoming War

In this volume of the Wiscon Chronicles, we find ourselves considering what it means to live at the intersections of various identities…

May 30, 2016

May 30, 2016

Birthstones

Suresh sat across the kitchen table from the slender woman, sharing a last evening cup of tea, surprised yet again by how lovely Priyanka…

Mar 4, 2016

Birthstones

Mar 4, 2016

Navigating Masculinity: A Roundtable

Mary Anne: I’m Mary Anne Mohanraj, your host for this discussion of intersections and alliances; we’ll start with questions of maleness and…

Feb 21, 2016

Feb 21, 2016

Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Mohanraj

Author of Bodies in Motion (Asian American Book Awards finalist), The Stars Change (Lambda finalist), and eleven other titles. Professor, gardener, cook, mom.

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