South Asian

Preethi Ramaprasad The floor rumbled through the theater, transporting me immediately to the mountainous source of the Ganga, commencing Chitresh Das Institute’s performance at ODC Theater, “Invoking the River.” …

I was sixteen when I read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Sixteen years reading fairy tales, American Girl books, and required school readings until I finally read a book where I saw myself reflected in its pages. And then it was Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies that…

Do you ever read a book or watch a movie or sometimes just go so deep into an Instagram spiral that you begin to see yourself as a particular character or person? Your mind begins to adapt their point of view, their mannerisms become your mannerisms, their quirks yours, their thoughts and opinions your thoughts and opinions? Not forever, just for a short or intermediate amount of time relative to how deeply a particularly life shattering piece of work has pierced your psyche? No? Just me? Great, thought so. This is what happens when you had trouble connecting with others when you were younger and spent all…

I don’t really want to write this post. I’m not feeling particularly up to sharing my thoughts right now. But I’ve missed a few posts already and I know if I don’t put something up tonight it would be that much easier to not post something tomorrow. I’ve just been in the real world, structuring my days, getting back in the flow. Trying to just…be. Be intentional. And be…

As a teenager, I turned my nose up at female classmates that read and admired Jane Austen’s work. “Why would you read books that imply a woman’s existence revolves entirely around marriage? It’s demeaning!” And with that huffy remark, I’d march off to read Vonnegut and Heller. It took me…

This post was written by Erica Jones and Lydia Creech, Project Film Specialists in the Moving Image Department. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services: Grant #MA-245614-OMS-20. Visit www.imls.gov. …

It ebbs and flows. This feeling of thinking I am going to make it. When I was younger I thought that success would play out like a movie sequence. You’ll probably hear that a lot — that I think something will happen like it does in a movie rather than real life. In fact one of my favorite, and unhealthy things I do, is to reframe all of my thoughts and experiences as if they were happening to the…

Written by Dr. Komal Gupta. Reviewed and Edited by Leah Berk Colorism is a sensitive issue that is difficult for many of us to acknowledge and talk about. As a mental health professional and a South Asian woman, I feel that it is very important to create a safe and…