Nahida S. Nisa

Devices, Not Literary

March 2, 2017March 28, 2017

It is a terribly mournful activity, having to erase your life. Certainly, deleting traces of your identity from your devices so that prying customs agents don’t flicker through them with bored expressions and malicious objectives isn’t the same as packing your few belongings onto a rickety boat, watching your home burn to ashes, severing yourself […]

Writing Inspiration

January 9, 2017November 13, 2017

On a drizzling Thursday in October, I decided to dance salsa. It was after a long day at work, and in the thirty-minute drive to the modest classroom-turned-studio, I felt a primal part of myself turn impassioned and pristine. I sped across the highway like all I needed was a good dance. I had ironed […]