lunch with the gorgeous and kind-hearted Adriana Hoppe today who gave me this beautiful gift – a piece of jewelry from mexico. love u so much my sweet sister and hope to return to mexico many more times, hopefully with u by my side. but first we will enjoy nyc together 🙂
rest in power richard reilly – committed to anti-racism and anti-war work, fierce activist in the palestine solidarity movement, a true comrade in the struggle for justice across the globe. inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.
my cousin akhzar and i, many years ago. so grateful that our families are still connected here in north america. it’s a blessing to have an older brother.
what a magical time with my cousin and his family who visited us from toronto over the weekend. sunday was perhaps the most beautiful winter day of the season with the woods clothed in immaculate snow and the sun shining its warm light on so much beauty. mendon ponds park’s ‘birdsong fairy trail’ was all it promised to be.
delicious vegan dinner at ted and ali’s tonight, with some photography by the brilliant morgan and lots of cuteness by their terrier lucy. thank u for a lovely evening forsyth fam <3
perfect day full of fun at mendon ponds park with my cousin and his fam <3
delicious #lebanese brunch – including fabulous muhammara and kanafeh – at sonia’s house where i got to catch up with some wonderful friends ? thank u for this gorgeous treat sonia hadchity. #rochesterny
best gift ever – ‘le petit prince’ in #urdu. thx so much dear Reilly.
received a warm welcome at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester where i gave a multimedia presentation on ‘islamophobia is racism.’ thank u to Barbara de Leeuw for organizing and to Pamela Kim for introducing me. thank u to all who came out on this cold winter day and added to the discussion.
with all due respect to football fans (including my son), the super bowl is one heavy-duty bit of commercial entertainment. an obscene embodiment of american excess. capitalism is pretty vulgar, my friends. so apart from racism and colonial hypocrisy, it’s a bit hard to understand the (white) abuse and panic triggered by shakira and J Lo’s performance. what did people expect? brittney spears?
at the risk of infuriating liberals, i have to say that i couldn’t care less about nancy pelosi’s clapbacks or ripping of speeches. it’s so much theatrics, which is all the democratic establishment is good for. they’ll take trump over bernie any day of the week, and protect their interests/privilege from a more equitable distribution of the country’s wealth. that’s what it comes down to. the rest is just shenanigans.
love this.
The artist recalls the first time he saw Barkley L. Hendricks’s painting “Steve” (1976). More here.
lovely meeting Rachel Y. DeGuzman today in this beautiful space: woc art collective WOC?Art #rochesterny
Barbara Smith: “When we use the term ‘identity politics,’ we are actually asserting that black women had a right to determine our own political agendas. We, as black women, we actually had a right to create political priorities and agendas and actions and solutions based in our experiences in having these simultaneous identities—that included other identities via the working class, gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc. So that’s what we meant by it. That didn’t mean we didn’t care about other people’s situations of injustice. We absolutely did not mean that we would work with people who were only identical to ourselves. We did not mean that. We strongly believed in coalitions and working with people across various identities on common problems.” More here.
with Iman Abid and Allyson Perkins this morning at @starrynitescafe. perhaps my favorite thing about activism is to get to know strong, courageous and brilliant young women who want to change the world and are doing that hard work – it reassures me, for we are in good hands. love u both <3
