Zahra and I had a BLAST at South by Southwest - thanks to Dropbox for flying us out and making this experience happen! See, look at how happy we are in this cute video of all the Podcast Studio participants! You want those links to what we said? Check out what we talked about below:
- Taz's chapbook is available now - Emdash & Ellipses.
- Mishthi Music - Taz's South Asian diaspora music blog.
- Taz was honored in NBC's 31 Days of Feminism for the month of women!
- Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad was asked to take her hijab off at #SXSW. But just look at how cool she looks on the Ellen Show. How could you?
- Three boys were stabbed in Huntington Beach for speaking in Arabic.
- Three people were shot in Milwaukee for speaking another language and being Brown.
- And another three black men were shot & #OurThreeBrothers campaign started.
- Surashbhai Patel GHangout with 18MillionRising, check out the video #Justice4MrPatel.
- Protest of Trump in Chicago was led by Latino and Muslim students.
- Sanders took the Muslim vote in Michigan.
- Feminist critique of Clinton.
- Muslim themed children's books.
- Curious George celebrates Ramadan.
- Saqib Javed and his epic hair flip felt around the world.
- 7% of Muslims are voting for Trump.
- Trump's Muslim daughter - Ayesha Ali Trump.
- Muslim women removed from plane for staring. But like, aunties stare. So get over it.
- Taz's latest project w/ Rohin Guha, Bholo::Speak
- Zahra's YouTube Channel where you can watch her one-minute stories.
- The Coiled Serpent from Tia Chucha Press - the Los Angeles poetry anthology Taz is in.
- Thank you to Amanda Quraishi for moderating the Auntie Staredown!
While there, Taz was also able to check out South Asian musicians for her South Asian Diaspora site Mishthi Music. Check out the posts she wrote on the musicians here:
On the mic.
Zahra & Taz at #SXSW
The Podcast Crew.