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		<title>The journey, not the destination&#8230;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been exploring the Gabrielino Trail for the past few years, and even more so over the past year since the Eaton fire has led to many other local trails being closed off. And while doing the hike, I&#8217;ve heard people reference &#8220;the waterfall&#8221; along the trail as a spot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>homelessness and flooded fields&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[L: Photo of tents by Quratulain Bakhtiari along a street in Sindh (August); R: Image from a helicopter by Haris Gazdar of submerged fields in Dadu district (September) In his New Yorker essay, &#8220;Pakistan’s Biblical Floods and the Case for Climate Reparations,&#8221; Mohammed Hanif opens with: &#8220;We have tried, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>visiting new and old corners of houston&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sections of murals by Genzo; (L) Tu Lucha; (R) Every Beautiful Poem &#8220;Women&#8217;s rights are human rights,&#8221; said Dr. Sima Samar when talking about the future of Afghan women at an event on March 30 for which I flew to Houston. Dr. Samar was speaking in the wake of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>telling our own stories. . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Found art collage by Minal, Karachi 2013; materials: flower petals, leaf, photographed on red floor Yesterday, my essay, My Chicana-South Asian daughter, finding her roots in Karachi and south Texas, was published in Los Angeles Times as an op-ed. Minal, the subject of the essay, was a wonderful reader, who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>love in the time of omicron&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 22:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[L: Roasted corn, camel, and sunset (photo by Minal S); R: With siblings, cousins, and Ammi at Usman&#8217;s mehndi celebration My two weeks in Karachi were punctuated with wedding festivities on one side as the family gathered to celebrate my nephew Usman marriage to Barira, held against the backdrop of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>flying to the moon &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2021 01:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A long line ahead of Minal and me on a cold and rainy morning as we waited to get tested for COVID so we could fly today Even though I have flown between the US and Karachi, Pakistan for more than three decades, I feel as if preparing for today&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>last weekend to see &#8220;on belonging &#8211; community responses to home and the pandemic&#8221;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 23:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Photos by Milly Correa Hernandez Almost three weeks have slipped away since one of my On Belonging &#8211; community responses to home and the pandemic installations was stolen / removed from McDonald Park. Even after investigations by a Pasadena detective who called me three times, no one came forward with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>theft/disappearance of my &#8220;on belonging &#8211; community responses to home and the pandemic&#8221; project. . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[L: &#8220;On Belonging – community responses to home and the pandemic&#8221; at McDonald Park; photo by a Pasadena parks employee; R: The live oak tree after being stripped of the installation Below is the letter I sent out to community members who are involved in my project: Dear friends and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>discostan for afghanistan &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Afghan dancer Samira Karami at Discostan&#8217;s fundraiser for Afghan refugees Last Saturday, I felt as if the pandemic had slipped away when I joined more than 500 bodies at Zebulan to support Afghan refugees and artists. To enter the event, one had to make a donation to causes listed in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>afghanistan, haiti, covid . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 18:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like most people I know, all week I was tracking the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. And as predicted by many, yesterday morning, I woke up to a new headline: AFGHANISTAN&#8217;S GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES A second headline read: 7.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES HAITI Lower in headline streams, was information about COVID-19&#8217;s Delta [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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