Shania Baweja

This past weekend marked the commencement of the 21st annual South Asian Awareness Network conference, or SAANference. This year’s theme was “Beyond Borders: Confronting Division and Forging Unity” — aimed at facing the existing “borders” and divisions that penetrate the South Asian diaspora. Speakers and participants spent the weekend identifying these “borders” and drawing upon […]

Some of the highest forms of art focus on tragic images and stories of women in deep despair. Throughout much of my childhood, I was overtaken by beautiful yet heartbreaking images of miserable women. These visuals were strewn throughout the old Bollywood movies that I watched as a child and still watch today. A woman in a red wedding lehenga being ripped away from her one true love. Meena Kumari dancing on broken glass as her feet gushed with blood, mirroring the red-painted feet of classical d…

This past weekend saw the continuation of a recent Michigan in Color tradition that is becoming a highlight for artists and art lovers.

Much of the internet discourse has declared that being critical of Barbie and liking Barbie are mutually exclusive, yet such a declaration