My writing and visions center around one core objective: how can we center healing and wellness as a priority for all of humanity and Mother Earth?
My Research and Publications:
I write about the liberatory potential of yoga, social movements, immigrant and racial justice organizing, and abolition. Several of my essays are open access and can be read for free.
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2023. "'Om-washing': Why Modi’s yoga day pose is deceptive." Al Jazeera. June 22, 2023.
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2020. “Towards a Critical Embodiment of Decolonizing Yoga,” Race and Yoga, 5(1): pp. i-x.
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2020. “Embodying Yoga Liberation: Growing Roots in Philly.” Abcdyogi.
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2020. “Spectacles of Compassion: Modi’s Weaponization of Yoga,” Jadaliyya. May 4, 2020.
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2021. “The City of Radical Love: A Philly Story of Oppression, Resistance, and Healing” in Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom, Edited by Cara Hagan.
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2018. “‘They Can Only Stretch the Bond. They Can’t Break it.’” Colorlines.
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2018. “Cultivating a Yogic Theology of Collective Healing: A Yogini’s Journey Disrupting White Supremacy, Hindu Fundamentalism, and Casteism,” Race and Yoga, 3(1).
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2017. “DRUM’s Soulful Beat: Desis Embodying Radical Healing” in Reimagining Magazine, Chicago Wisdom Project.
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2016. “Color-Blind Racism in the Media: Mindy Kaling as an ‘Honorary White,’” Race and Contention in 21st Century U.S. Media, Edited by Bhoomi Thakore and Jason Smith, Routledge, New York.
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