America’s Angriest Store

How Whole Foods Attracts Complete Shitheads.

San Francisco’s Class War, By the Numbers

Counting the new tech boom

Those Damn Gentrifying Hipsters

Avoiding the pull of the “creative class” typecast

The Testing Ground for the New Surveillance

Oakland, California

 “We Don’t Need Another Dr. Khan”

The Meaning of Choice and identity as a South Asian Diaspora

The Faux Pas of the Well-Intentioned Westerner

A peek into the realities of “helping those less…

Willful Ignorance — On The Perception of Race

From the Perspective of Someone Too White to Be Black…

On Being Called Out

or: You Just Stepped on Someone’s Toe

Privilege is a complex thing. Because of its intersectional nature, understanding and pushing back against our axes of privilege is hard, sustained work, not an epiphany achieved by a singular triumphant…

Ma Noirceur

W.E.B. Dubois discussed a state of perpetual balance as twoness:

“an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn…