Stranger Ties
Raksha VasudevanThoughts on solidarity, creativity, and media by a former aidworker + now-journalist.
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I’m back in the throes of book revision these next few months. As inspiration for me (and hopefully you), I’m inviting a series of artists, journalists, and researchers to speak with me about their work. Some of these brilliant thinkers hav...
Q&A with Isaac Samuel of African History Extra
A few housekeeping notes to begin with:
- I’m teaching my 4-week course on writing a book proposal again this summer through Off Assignment. We have a stellar line-up of guest speakers this year, including Pilar Garcia-Brown, Senior Edit...
Racial time
1. In 2017, I traveled to Niger on assignment. This was back when I was an aidworker, and I’d been sent here by CARE International. CARE had gotten funding from the Gates Foundation to support “women’s empowerment”—a cursed term if there e...
Ghosts in the Garden
The tulips don’t care about war. In Denver, their red heads are already pushing through the dirt, reaching for the sun, indifferent to missiles and murder on this soil and elsewhere. The crabapple and cherry trees, already in full white and...
Redneck Asians
Longing for whiteness is not new for south Asians or Asians as a whole in America. “We are reputed to be so accomplished, and so law-abiding, we will disappear into this country’s amnesiac fog,” writes Cathy Park Hong in her seminal book, M...
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Former aidworker turned writer. My nonfiction debut EMPIRES BETWEEN US is forthcoming from Graywolf & Knopf Canada.
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