Nishita Rao

In 2025, the Queer Ecology Hanky Project was exhibited at the Tang Teaching Art Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. This is a travelling exhibit with its inception at the White Page Gallery in Minneapolis, MN (2019). Michael Warner, a literary critic once wrote that being queer means constantly challenging “the common understanding of what gender difference means, or what the state is for, or what 'health' entails ... or what a good relation to the planet's environment would...

Well, she was the inspiration behind your favorite drink! Now there are two competing claims to the invention. One from Chun Shui Tang in Taichung, Taiwan, where a product development manager dropped tapioca balls into an iced Assam Black Tea during a staff meeting, held in 1988. The competitor however, hails from Tainan, Taiwan, who is the owner of Hanlin Tea room, claiming to have been inspired by local tapioca white balls in 1986. While the latter called it Pearl Tea, the former called it...

"It's not Shiva, it's Sheeva! Get to know the God you are talking about before asking the question." This was bellowed in a zoom panel meeting on "What is Sacred?" organized on 26 September 2023 by the AASECT Tantra Special Interest Group. The comment was addressed to me, an Indian and one from a Hindu family. And so, my response was: "It is my tradition, my religion, my Gods, and I am the only one here who has the ability to speak conversational Sanskrit because it was one of the languages...