We make fiction that disrupts the status quo, examines change as a collective bottom up process, centers marginalized communities - and is neither utopian nor dystopian.
I left Pakistan to live in a society that was supposedly free from bias and discrimination. What happened?
Recognizing that privilege is unearned is essential to dismantling the white saviour complex.
We ask each other: "do you even lift, bro?" It’s about being big or being shredded. Preferably both.
Might pain and oppression be like love—a simple thunderbolt at times, and in other circumstances complex and slow burning over generations?
Seeing a mass of drunk and high naked white people celebrating their newfound liberty with police officers standing guard is a slap to the face.
When you make your trauma a crucial aspect of your identity, it becomes harder to heal from it.
What happens when your cause is ill-suited to campaigns that tug the heart-strings?
Racism isn’t all in individual heads; it doesn’t just reveal itself in interpersonal relations. History, politics, and economics matter.
The Charleston murders are consistent with the violence and racism that has characterized America since its creation.