Food, water, shelter, healthcare… internet? How E-Sims for Gaza reveals the need for an essential new category of aidAs Israeli forces push ever further across destroyed Gaza, leaving rubble and crushed civilian livelihoods in their wake, the international community...
pomegranateby iravati iyer Her hands cradle the pomegranate as if it is the precious evolution she so longs for. It stains her fingers pink and she passes it to me. Look, she says, your lipstick matches. I hold the fruit between my traitorous fingers and watch her. I...
Letters to Edenby iravati iyerwanted to eat today; didn't. couldn't muster up the energy, wanted maybe to see what would happen; sickness to delusion to madness to enlightenment. privileged I know- you won't ever be afforded the same luxury. but wanted to know what it...
Bayou Bed by iravati iyer Sound of the fan haunts me; inexplicable reminder of nightspressed into each other, learning theshapes our souls made as they morphed together, like a sound (I) never heardfrom my mother's lips, like the tinkleof the your wind catcher as it...
If i weren't a woman by anahita sharma if death lay his intricate fingers on the skin of my back and ripped every ounce of hope in my heart, his touch would have been softer, even kinder, than the poison buried deep in your palms his claws would retract and his hands...
Faith, Power and What Constitutes Cultureby anahita sharma Some would say they live for faith. That their faith in God is the only thing that keeps them going. Because what is life if you have no one to believe in? What is life without believing in superstitions that...