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    How I Gradually Found
    My Queer Community in Connecticut

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    Feb 17, 2023
  • The Names We Call Each Other
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    The Names We
    Call Each Other

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    Aug 30, 2022
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    Crop Tops, Saris,
    and Unlearning Gendered Fashion

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    Jun 20, 2022
  • A white sketched outline of two people are crouched over a soup pot. One is feeding the other.
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    Closing the Distance With a
    Dash of Salt and Cumin

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    Feb 21, 2022
  • a cityscape of New Haven, CT at dusk, dappled in pink sunlight
    first person

    How I Gradually Found
    My Queer Community in Connecticut

    P
    Feb 17, 2023
  • The Names We Call Each Other
    first person

    The Names We
    Call Each Other

    P
    Aug 30, 2022
  • A black long sleeved crop top against a background of brightly colored patterned fabrics
    first person

    Crop Tops, Saris,
    and Unlearning Gendered Fashion

    P
    Jun 20, 2022
  • A white sketched outline of two people are crouched over a soup pot. One is feeding the other.
    first person

    Closing the Distance With a
    Dash of Salt and Cumin

    P
    Feb 21, 2022
a cityscape of New Haven, CT at dusk, dappled in pink sunlight
first person

How I Gradually Found My Queer Community in Connecticut

There were a few months where my mother, who lives back in Bangladesh, stopped talking to me after stumbling across some essays I’d written about my queerness. This confusing and…
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Feb 17, 2023
The Names We Call Each Other
first person

The Names We Call Each Other

On specific language, families, mispronunciations, and revisiting Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake.”
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Aug 30, 2022
A black long sleeved crop top against a background of brightly colored patterned fabrics
first person

Crop Tops, Saris, and Unlearning Gendered Fashion

I’d avoided saris all my life. It was during the pandemic, when crop tops brought me a sense of freedom and gender euphoria, that I realized saris weren’t too far…
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Jun 20, 2022
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A white sketched outline of two people are crouched over a soup pot. One is feeding the other.
first person

Closing the Distance With a Dash of Salt and Cumin

In the middle of a pandemic, 8,000 miles away from Dhaka, Bangladesh, I craved my favorite dish in the world: beef bhuna, a curry made of tender meat and rich,…
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Feb 21, 2022
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