The otherness is not somewhere out there. It’s in me. Still, my search did not stop to this discovery. It took me profoundly even further. It took me to love and poetry.
"I wrote Asha’s story to give voice to all the women in rural Bangladesh who cannot speak out against their abusers or society."
I wrote “The Crevasse: A Love Letter” to help me grapple with confusing changes to the terrain of my life.
This is a love letter to my people, my family and a version of me trying to overcome the trauma of almost seeing their mother die.
Gratitude is a recurring theme I hear from readers of Patricia Leavy’s social fiction. This is an essay about Patricia Leavy novels.
"From dancing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to the Cow Palace in San Francisco, every venue taught me valuable lessons."
The Resistant Analysand: A Memoir Author’s Memo My memoir is about my growing up as the daughter of a Freudian...
This piece is a creative reflection which emerged out of the auto-ethnographic reflections from my PhD around research extraction.
This piece explores the ways in which identity and esteem are interwoven into the topic of Black hair.
What happens when a witch is black? This piece is a salute to the transformational beauty of cosplay & all the laughter it inspires.
The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents Author’s Memo “The Wave” examines the problem of pleasure and...
I offer the following five poems to you. I hope that when you read/hear them you see a way into your own stories and ideas of poetic voice.