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had to sit down and coach myself out of a writerly "freak out" when i found my book on a list w @zzpacker + #sandracisneros -- so many feels; a lot of gratitude.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar
@chayab77
Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist.
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- true story re: Rush Limbaugh: He criticized (on his radio show) the fact that I ran a soup kitchen where we served Indian food to homeless people. He actually spent time railing against the fact that I was presumptuous enough not to serve "normal American" food to those in need.
- Replying to @dancingofpensIt also completely erases Black Jewish people in a thoroughly disgusting way.
- No, it is not an artifact of time, because people I know of all ages (specifically women including trans women) have told me that their partners do not clean the toilets, they do. That actually has not changed.
- this should be ALL OVER the news (it's a Matthew Shepherd level of hate crime/ killing, it's a Narwez Mody hate crime, Srinivas Kotchibatla, Vincent Chin level of a death) -- it's a historic event that has to be paid attention to, for what it means about our humanity
- Please can someone make sure @priyankachopra is aware that Michael B Jordan is SINGLE. Priyanka Chopra + Michael B Jordan. I would buy the dolls, I'm not ashamed to say. I would.Replying to @LakshmiGandhiThe phrases "she can do better" and "O fo" and "Bilkul disaster hai" are ringing in my ears right now....
- Replying to @sadqueer4lifeThere isn't a day I don't think, for a few seconds, about the baby I lost at the start of the 2nd trimester who looked "fine" on an ultrasound and then completely vanished by the next visit...all the bleeding in between. I will never forget her. My littles call her "our sister"💔
- Replying to @Mike00860290 @missmayad and @KyivIndependentexcellent. do this for Syrian refugees, those fleeing Islamophobic genocide in South Asia, Rohingya refugees, and we can talk about the Deutsche Bahn's humanitarianism. only then.
- Replying to @ElizabethH_WIthis is so unacceptable, you actually could report this person for bi-phobia. It is bi-phobia when anyone demands that to prove our queerness, we marry only a same-sex partner. It's nonsense. they don't get to decide whether we're bi- or what that means. We decide this. 🌈
- Replying to @vijayiyer and @randajarrarone thing I'm realizing; people on the side of the ceasefire are not resorting to these disgusting tactics; leaving plenty of room for this aggression. Imagine targeting pro-IDF students this way with bloody images of murdered Palestinian kids. but we won't.
- Hello! Are you a South Asian or other BIPOC screenwriter?? Please get in touch. Have a paid opportunity for you if you are agented, have at least 2 screenwriting credits on projects that got made or got to pilot stage, and have been in at least 1 writers room for film or TV. ♥️🙏🏿
- Replying to @PAKPAC @realDonaldTrump and 6 othersOk. And what will you say when he creates the Muslim Registry that he tried to in his first administration and that is part of Project 2025 as well?
- JUST GOT INVITED TO TEACH FICTION WRITING WHERE I WENT TO UNDERGRAD OMG TOO BIG A DEAL...i need to do this to calm down...
GIF - Wow. I just discovered that there are non-POC women writers WRITING UNDER INDIAN NAMES to sell romance novels about arranged marriages. WOW. wow. How is that #OwnVoices?? it's outright appropriation. Brownface.