Happy Persian New Year + Dog Poem by Lalita Bawa + Podcast

da-AL
3 min readMar 22, 2024
Nowrooz is when I love to catch up with old friends!

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Growing up moving around quite a bit within the States and Spain, my parents from two different countries, and having two older brothers, my mind was often on gender and geographic politics, even at the age of four. As early as I could handle paper and pen, writing became a means of making sense of things (more on my background and books here).

Back then, I delighted in being a novelty. At the same time, I knew enough that it was tragic how presidents and kings war over map lines, treat people unjustly because of them, and use them to decree who can’t marry whom.

Now I delight in how citizens are taking matters into their own hands. These days, it’s hard to find anyone on my street who isn’t some sort of blend and proud of it. There’s everything to gain from meeting…

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