This is my brilliant friend @MekkiLeeper. He just got nominated for an Emmy for Best Writing in his show Jury Duty. His episode is BRILLIANT. I’ve watched, and re-watched it, and yes, then again re-watched it. There is SO much to celebrate about him. I learn so much from him: how everything is funny, being kind, and the relentless process, patience, and commitment towards excellence in comedy. Congratulations, Mekster. I feel lucky to be your friend. Much love 🥳
This is my brilliant friend @MekkiLeeper. He just got nominated for an Emmy for Best Writing in his show Jury Duty. His episode is BRILLIANT. I’ve watched, and re-watched it, and yes, then again re-watched it. There is SO much to celebrate about him. I learn so much from him: how everything is funny, being kind, and the relentless process, patience, and commitment towards excellence in comedy. Congratulations, Mekster. I feel lucky to be your friend. Much love 🥳
This is my brilliant friend @MekkiLeeper. He just got nominated for an Emmy for Best Writing in his show Jury Duty. His episode is BRILLIANT. I’ve watched, and re-watched it, and yes, then again re-watched it. There is SO much to celebrate about him. I learn so much from him: how everything is funny, being kind, and the relentless process, patience, and commitment towards excellence in comedy. Congratulations, Mekster. I feel lucky to be your friend. Much love 🥳
This is my brilliant friend @MekkiLeeper. He just got nominated for an Emmy for Best Writing in his show Jury Duty. His episode is BRILLIANT. I’ve watched, and re-watched it, and yes, then again re-watched it. There is SO much to celebrate about him. I learn so much from him: how everything is funny, being kind, and the relentless process, patience, and commitment towards excellence in comedy. Congratulations, Mekster. I feel lucky to be your friend. Much love 🥳
This is my brilliant friend @MekkiLeeper. He just got nominated for an Emmy for Best Writing in his show Jury Duty. His episode is BRILLIANT. I’ve watched, and re-watched it, and yes, then again re-watched it. There is SO much to celebrate about him. I learn so much from him: how everything is funny, being kind, and the relentless process, patience, and commitment towards excellence in comedy. Congratulations, Mekster. I feel lucky to be your friend. Much love 🥳
Proud Moments 🏳️🌈 TO. Roma xo
Proud Moments 🏳️🌈 TO. Roma xo
Proud Moments 🏳️🌈 TO. Roma xo
Proud Moments 🏳️🌈 TO. Roma xo
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
Read an excerpt of Fatimah Asghars, “When We Were Sisters” at the Young Lions Fiction Awards Event. The award, founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland in collaboration with The New York Library, shines light on extraordinary books and novelists and their newly released fiction works advancing the craft of fiction literature. Fatimah Asghar is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her works celebrate women, Muslims, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. Never have I read a book this fast. Never. “When We Were Sisters” is a powerful story that makes me think about family, service, sex, and sisterhood. I never felt like a ‘good reader’ because I didn’t relate to ‘the classics’ as they were defined to me as predominantly English or assimilating literature – but this book redefined the notion of classic for me. As a South Asian Canadian woman and daughter of immigrants, for me, this book is a classic. Sitting across a dinner table, listening to Fatimah’s stories on life, her fight for integrity and truth, and artistry, I felt empowered. I feel I’ve found a peer and hope I have the privilege to read her work again. And because we’re both lactose intolerant, we did a little but very critical cheers to our lactose pills before we downed an amazing Mediterranean cheese plate. Essential. Credit: Young Lions Fiction Awards, Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland, Hosted at New York Public Library Video Credit: @nicolecounts
And finally, 8th up. My mother 🤎😌🌿 Everything begins with the mother. And I wanted to celebrate this series of sensational artists, activists, movements with the silhouette of the woman whose stories I grew up listening to: my mother. A daughter whose parents died young and had to step out of her masters, a feet no one in her family had accomplished, to raise a family of 7 children. A teacher whose students still rejoice when my mother goes to meet them in India. A wife, who’s continually supported her husband in all his dreams. A mother, relentlessly in service, staying up as late as needed to make sure I have my lines off for the next day. Thank you Mom, for allowing me to grow into an extension of your silhouette. Love you <3 ………………………………………………………………………. Collage Graphics Design: Wilson Huynh @wingwilly Happy Asian American Month, lovebugs. I think we are all, in a way, expressions of our histories. I wanted to share the pieces of Asian and Asian-American history made in the last couple years, inspiring the artist I am today and working to be tomorrow.
And finally, 8th up. My mother 🤎😌🌿 Everything begins with the mother. And I wanted to celebrate this series of sensational artists, activists, movements with the silhouette of the woman whose stories I grew up listening to: my mother. A daughter whose parents died young and had to step out of her masters, a feet no one in her family had accomplished, to raise a family of 7 children. A teacher whose students still rejoice when my mother goes to meet them in India. A wife, who’s continually supported her husband in all his dreams. A mother, relentlessly in service, staying up as late as needed to make sure I have my lines off for the next day. Thank you Mom, for allowing me to grow into an extension of your silhouette. Love you <3 ………………………………………………………………………. Collage Graphics Design: Wilson Huynh @wingwilly Happy Asian American Month, lovebugs. I think we are all, in a way, expressions of our histories. I wanted to share the pieces of Asian and Asian-American history made in the last couple years, inspiring the artist I am today and working to be tomorrow.
And finally, 8th up. My mother 🤎😌🌿 Everything begins with the mother. And I wanted to celebrate this series of sensational artists, activists, movements with the silhouette of the woman whose stories I grew up listening to: my mother. A daughter whose parents died young and had to step out of her masters, a feet no one in her family had accomplished, to raise a family of 7 children. A teacher whose students still rejoice when my mother goes to meet them in India. A wife, who’s continually supported her husband in all his dreams. A mother, relentlessly in service, staying up as late as needed to make sure I have my lines off for the next day. Thank you Mom, for allowing me to grow into an extension of your silhouette. Love you <3 ………………………………………………………………………. Collage Graphics Design: Wilson Huynh @wingwilly Happy Asian American Month, lovebugs. I think we are all, in a way, expressions of our histories. I wanted to share the pieces of Asian and Asian-American history made in the last couple years, inspiring the artist I am today and working to be tomorrow.
And finally, 8th up. My mother 🤎😌🌿 Everything begins with the mother. And I wanted to celebrate this series of sensational artists, activists, movements with the silhouette of the woman whose stories I grew up listening to: my mother. A daughter whose parents died young and had to step out of her masters, a feet no one in her family had accomplished, to raise a family of 7 children. A teacher whose students still rejoice when my mother goes to meet them in India. A wife, who’s continually supported her husband in all his dreams. A mother, relentlessly in service, staying up as late as needed to make sure I have my lines off for the next day. Thank you Mom, for allowing me to grow into an extension of your silhouette. Love you <3 ………………………………………………………………………. Collage Graphics Design: Wilson Huynh @wingwilly Happy Asian American Month, lovebugs. I think we are all, in a way, expressions of our histories. I wanted to share the pieces of Asian and Asian-American history made in the last couple years, inspiring the artist I am today and working to be tomorrow.
