Category: local

south asian beauties in orientalist postcards

stunning shoot today at #rctv #studio for ‘fleshing out the #collective #body: #southasian #beauties in #orientalist #postcards’

shot beautifully by dylan toombs and boris sapozhnikov 

the postcard #women were performed to #perfection by 
Urvashi Bhattacharya 
Fatimah Arshad and
Sumayia Islam

interfaith iftar

interfaith iftar at the islamic center of rochester this evening. always lovely to see all our interfaith friends, of course, but how i love my muslim community. warmth, kindness, and wonderful generosity. such an honor to break our fast with everyone and then pray and eat together.

muna, shabnam, ayesha, halima, obaida, fatima, husain, samiha, navaira, wegdan, munye bhai and of course my daughter mimi ?

my art at link gallery, city hall

my #art series ‘this #heirloom’ at the #linkgallery at #cityhall
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this #exhibition celebrates APAA’s 10th #anniversary exhibition, ‘embracing our #heritage’ and will be on display may 7 to june 17
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along with my work, art by #japanese american artist rie maywar and #korean american artist jina park is also on display
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lovely opening reception today that my daughter was also able to attend. 

nakba rally

at the nakba vigil yesterday, where palestinians, jews, muslims, and christians came together to commemorate 71 years of the nakba or catastrophe whereby 700,000 palestinians were ethnically cleansed in 1948. i talked about palestinian poet dareen tatour who was harassed, house arrested and imprisoned over a period of three years for writing a poem titled, ‘resist, my people, resist them.’

i’ll be teaching in the fall :)

so it’s official. i will be teaching a class at Saint John Fisher College this fall. it will be called ‘through another lens’ and it’ll sit at the intersection of film, art, politics and poetry. the class will be part of the honors program and i will have quite a lot of leeway to use film in order to engage with world politics. we will be discussing borders, displacement, memory, identity, and alternative world views and philosophies. i will also be taking the students out of their classroom and into parts of rochester where new ideas, solidarities, and culture creation are happening. i’ve already approached some friends, pls let me know if u have other ideas. pretty psyched!

Write in Sareer Fazili

Pittsford friends, as we all know from the painful stories of racism we have heard recently, many things need to change in our schools. One of them is more diversity and POC representation on our school board.

My friend Sareer A. Fazili, a known leader in our community, is running for the Pittsford School Board as a write-in candidate.

A write-in candidate is a candidate in an election whose name does not appear on the ballot, but for whom voters may vote nonetheless by writing in the person’s name.

The election is May 21st. Please go to Barker Road Middle School between 7:00 AM and 9:00 PM and WRITE IN Sareer Fazili.