art
Resilience & community through fibre arts: a tatreez workshop
Tatreez requires patience and an attention to detail: the small fibers used to cross stitch are easily tangled in the back, and pulling them to the correct tension can be tedious work.
economics
Banning sweatshops won’t fix poverty, says visiting professor
“Welfare of the workers is the goal,” Powell said. “... We [must] have a means-end discussion about what policies deliver on that."
2022
Priya Ragu’s 2021 “damnshestamil” pays homage to her Tamil heritage
Released in 2021, her debut album “damnshestamil” is a warm combination of contemporary music and an ode to her heritage, incorporating audio clips of women speaking in Tamil overlayed with traditional South Indian beats.