Teaching about Genocide:
Dylan Garity – “Rigged Game” (NPS 2013)
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Losing mother tongue – Linguistics by Maya
An Indian-American girl attracted a sizable audience at the White House when she narrated a poem that shared her experience as an immigrant and how it was painful to replace her mother tongue Tamil with English. “I have lost more than I have ever lost in sixteen years.
Sabrina Benaim – “Explaining My Depression to My Mother”
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Guante – “Ten Responses to the Phrase ‘Man Up'”
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[Movingwords.sg] – Poetry Slam @ Esplanade Xchange – Pooja Nansi
it is 7am on a damp London morning and I am caffeine and jet-lagged waiting to get to the front of the line one ticket to Waterloo? his eyes take in my appearance you mean one ticket to waterloo, please he turns to his computer and mutters don’t they teach these pakis anything I, am an Indian.