Why are her clothes your problem?

An article yesterday in The Telegraph shared pictures of M&S’s new range of burkinis. Okay, cool! An article on fashion and diversity? …not so much.

I didn’t expect to do another post on body shaming so soon but couldn’t help but comment when…

A Citizen of Their India

I am the culmination of the Indian dream 
because after centuries worth
Of festering culture 
A cookpot broth of wafting 
Delicacies 
All simmering in the passion
Of this place, 
One would think it’d come to some good. 
But either we kept it waiting too long
Or never let it simmer…

Society Expects Me To Explain Something That Had Nothing To Do With Me

I’ve been looking at the news all night, feeling distraught for the victims, feeling sadness for the refugees who fled there to escape this violence.

And angry. I feel angry.