Dialogue over domination—may now be a fresher start to a newer road, a fresher relationship to power
— within a long winding road where so much seeks attention, accountability, repair… and righlty so. ❤️‍🩹

#permanentceasefirenow

birthday month’s highlight will never not be my lil guy & libra twin meanwhile this tee gift (with role models & the sun goddess aka TriShakti) & musings just becuz.
september, we’ll miss you! ♎️🌀

I’m excited to offer this workshop @pw.org in October, & work with writers unbacked by large wallets, on ways to reach their readers.

Fee waivers available for writers underrepresented in publishing. & a discounted fee for all, if you enroll by September 7. Join me. 🤎

www.pw.org/content/work...

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

What a time, Good Goddess.

And yet, the solidarity all around.

Morning walk today. The ancestors said, abundance is our natural state. But I was taught for much of my education to reject everything they said, even if mama Nature confirms otherwise.

And while this migrant knows Return is a fantasy, these days, I re-member, I reconsider, I reintegrate. 🪷🌳🤎

Thank you! And yep, Said’s is a bible for so many of us. 🙏🏽

The classroom and the page within our deeply violent, deeply unequal world are admittedly privileged spaces, but I would neither continue to write nor teach if I didn’t firmly believe in their potential for Change.

Here, a tired, content face after my last seminar, & *few books taught for the AY.

Rarely into social trends but sometimes I can’t entirely resist. And reiterate (via IG).

Rested weekend. 💫

What a loss for the literary world, and all of us decolonizing the mind.

Rest in power, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. 🖤🤎

A lil beauty from Rajasthan and the Thar Desert (with issues like any other place!) for whoever needs it. I’ll never not love my ancestral land’s colors, hospitality, and most of all, its stories within stories within stories.
From our Cali high desert to the Thar. 💞

"The implications for Indian students are profound. With 788 Indian nationals currently enrolled at Harvard, many now face a precarious situation — risking deportation or being forced to transfer if the government’s actions are upheld."

indiawest.com/harvard-vs-t...

Cuz everyday is Earth Day. 🤎

Trump cut nearly $3 billion in the first 100 days.

Cancer is the #2 killer of people.

Anyway, MAGA.

www.axios.com/2025/05/19/n...

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

"Mayar is among the more than 9,000 children in Gaza who have been treated for malnutrition this year..."

Israel starving Palestinians is a war crime.

www.latimes.com/world-nation...

So exciting! Can’t wait to read and huge congrats to Mushtaq and Bhasthi. ❤️💫

Among the many fierce mother figures I’m surrounded by, a *glimpse into this lineage too—cuz I’d be lost without its emotional inheritance. And working at repaying my debt. ✍🏽🌀

#MothersDay2025 #BookSky

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A prose poem for you as Mother’s Day approaches. Published in 2020 @raisingmothers.bsky.social, only litmag I know on BIPOC parenting, and such a badass one! 🤎

This one student, Mohsen Madhawi, has more courage than the entire Republican Party, billionaires, media personalities, powerful law firms, and corporate institutions who all bent the knee to Trump.

My phone just served me this picture, from a March 2021 CNBC hit, and I want to put it in a museum of pandemic times.

post-zoom selfie cuz first haircut in six months and silly joys.

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