Featured Photo: Juneteenth Painting. June 19th 2023 Dear Fellow Warrior, Happy Belated Juneteenth! I wanted to share this in this space, because I do feel it belongs here too. This is a piece I wrote on Medium (my third article there) which I had written in honor of Juneteenth this past Monday. I just intended…
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Just Another Ode to Pakistan… From an ABCD
Dear Fellow Warriors, I wrote this piece a few months ago, and I have been meaning to share it for a while now. Just mustering up the courage, because it may be slightly embarrassing and exposing perhaps, and imposter syndrome can always make it worse. But I am someone who remains an open book nonetheless,…
Dance… and don’t mind who’s watching…
“When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.” – Paulo Coelho Last month, I attended the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The conference coincidentally fell on the same week I attended the National Youth Leadership Forum of Defense, Intelligence and Diplomacy back in 2002, my final year…
My “Resilience Portfolio”
Dear Fellow Warrior, It has been difficult to break through the creative blocks I am facing at the moment, but I am trying. I feel sometimes I am moving in so many directions and when that happens, I am unable to move at all. But I feel one step at a time, I will just…
“High School Popularity Contests” and the “Politics of the ‘Like'”
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity, there is beauty, and there is strength.”– Dr. Maya Angelou Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.~ Mahatma Gandhi Since the start of this year, I had been listening to music…
The Radical Brown “Damsel in Distress”
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dear Fellow Warrior, Following the previous poem I posted a few weeks earlier, “I wrote a poem on 2020,”in this post I share that specific poem that I wrote in my…
Reflecting on Five Years Running the DC Gaza 5K
Today I ran my 5th Consecutive Gaza 5K in Washington, DC!!! Year Five of the DC Gaza 5k warrants some deep reflections, but this post will have to be brief. I have written seldom on this blog the past year, as I’ve been consumed by my doctorate studies… but I remain committed to sharing some…
I am just like you….
…I am just like you… As a kid, I was guilty of watching a lot of TV. There were six of us, so I won’t blame the rents for needing their space. Do you remember Full House, Saved by the Bell, Family Matters, Growing Pains, Step by Step, the Torkelsons, Doug, Are you Afraid of…