Getting to the inaugural Crazy Funny South Asians variety show at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater was a trek given the near-apocalyptic scale of this season’s first snow on November 15. But somewhere between the endless lines outside Penn Station mere blocks away, the unnecessary but – I’m calling it – quintessentially Indian queue skipping … Read More
Misha Japanwala stands on a sheet of plastic in the middle of her small room, naked and motionless. She has pushed her bed to one corner and the desk to another. Just a few minutes earlier, her assistant painted liquid silicone onto the front of her body. The fast-drying blue liquid is layered. It dribbles … Read More
Generations of young women were taught to live, love and be happy–just not in their brown skin. It was the plop sound of the goopy cream, its silken texture and slight luminescence that called out to me on the days I felt ugly: a thin, white veneer of televised fable to put between my brown … Read More
