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Food Storytelling Collective presents “Cooking for Peace” Recipe Series: Part 4 Featuring Bengali Fish Curry

By Zulfiya Tursunova / December 9, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]— Written in collaboration with Dr. Zulfiya Tursunova, Sharmin Ahmad, Gerry Lor, and Phian Tran[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]For the fourth and final part of Food Storytelling Collective’s “Cooking for Peace” Recipe series, we present Sharmin Ahmad’s recipe for Bengali Fish Curry with tomato and dill, which she prepared with her son Taj Iman Ahmad Ibn Munir. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Sharmin…

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Food Storytelling Collective presents “Cooking for Peace” Recipe Series: Part 3 Featuring Tatar Zur Belish

By Zulfiya Tursunova / December 8, 2021

For the third part of Food Storytelling Collective’s “Cooking for Peace” Recipe series, we’ll be sharing a Tatar recipe for Zur Belish, provided by Rushana Rakhimova. Rushana was born in Tatarstan. She is a nurse who honors her culture, language,…

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Food Storytelling Collective presents “Cooking for Peace” Recipe Series: Part 2 Featuring Uzbek Dimlama

By Zulfiya Tursunova / December 7, 2021

We’re back for Part 2 of Food Storytelling Collective’s “Cooking for Peace” Recipe series! This recipe is for Dimlama, a traditional dish from Uzbekistan. It was shared by Aziza Eiffe, who is a proud mother of two kids and the…

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Food Storytelling Collective presents “Cooking for Peace” Recipe Series: Part 1 Featuring Uzbek Plov

By Zulfiya Tursunova / December 6, 2021

We’re excited to kick off this 4-part series with a recipe for Plov, which is a traditional Uzbek dish! The recipe was shared by Gulnoza Ishanova and Rano Ziyadullaeva. Gulnoza Ishanova is originally from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and currently lives in…

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Coming out as an Asian American

By Ruby / December 3, 2021

I questioned my sexuality for a long time because I never felt like my experience would fit the mold of the typical white queer American.

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Kids Deserve Diverse Media Representation

By Julia M / November 9, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From a young age, we are wired to notice differences and similarities between ourselves and others. According to UNICEF, babies notice physical differences like skin color at around 6 months and children can show racial biases at as early as 5 years old. Imagine being that young and exploring the world around you. Why do…

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how to make a zine: dreaming and creating for a better world

By Shania / August 16, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2684″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]step one: (un)learning[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]It starts when you feel a deep uneasiness in your body. Like a secret code between you and the earth that thumps and prods and irks; the earth whispers to you to open your eyes. You begin searching for safety, for care, for liberation, only to find that it is never…

On The Intolerance of Non-Standard American Englishes

By Nellie / August 11, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] My Mother’s English [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Last spring, I read Mother Tongue, an essay novelist Amy Tan had written about her mother’s English. Tan’s mother, who had immigrated to the U.S., held an “expressive command” of English. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]But her mother’s English was also grammatically imperfect. Because of this, she was ignored, mistreated by workers in department stores,…

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