Introduction
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Ongoing
2012-13: Artist-in-Residence at the Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Recent Activities:
Mar 2013: "Freedmen's Town Lives!". CITE 91, A Hand-Made Issue, March 2013.
Feb 2013: Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA Program's Wednesday Afternoon Conversation Series. Listen here.
Jan 2013: Served on NEA panel at the APAP|NY2013 conference in a session entitled Breaking Boundaries through Meaningful Engagements.
Dec 2012: Directed and created short videos Homes and Histories, a Voices Breaking Boundaries living room art production, Houston, TX.
Oct 2012: Poet-in-Residencefor Poets & Writers, October 1. October 9, October 15, October 22.
April 2012: Directed and created short videos for Women Under Siege, a Voices Breaking Boundaries living room art production, Houston, TX.
Feb 2012: Two poems Doc. 101: Intro to Life and How To Live It and Why Are You Looking at Me like That? in Vallum Contemporary Poetry, Montreal, Canada.
Jan 2012: Op-Ed: Observing social change, in Houston and Karachi, Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX.
Oct 2011: Slipping Between Borders, in South Asian Review, Special Issue, Pakistani Creative Writing in English, 31.3 pp. 106-11. Co-guest eds. Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Waseem Anwar.
Oct 2011: Reading for the Eastern Mennonite University's Language & Literature Department's Writers' Read Series, Harrisonburg, VA.
Aug 2011: "Devouring Mangoes with Gusto" in Dawn Books & Authors.
July 2011: Poetry performance at La Luz for Macondo Writers' Workshop,
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX.
May 2011: Performance on VBB's art car Revolution at the Orange Show for the Visual Arts Art Car Parade, Houston, TX; car was awarded First Prize in the Free Speech category.
Mar 2011: Video screenings and participation in panel discussion Women Speak on Global Citizenry at Bronx Community College, New York, NY.
Jan 2011: "Think Global/Act Local." Op-Ed in the Houston Chronicle, 30 January, 2011.
Nov 2010: Site-specific installation breaking silence / bearing witness / claiming dignity, at VBB's 2010-11 Season Opener Women's Voices, Houston, TX.
Oct 2010: Short video collage Why Are You Looking at Me Like That? screening at the 4th Cairo Film Festival, Medrar Contemporary Art Festival, Cairo, Egypt.
Mar 2010: Reading and panel at Karachi Literature Festival, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mar 2010: International Women's Day Creative Writing Workshop and Reading with Michelle Otero at El Paso Community College, Valle Verde Campus, El Paso, TX.
Jan 2010: "For Choice." in an on-line roundtable Pens and Swords. The Mantle, 26 January, 2010.