Events
December 6, 2023. Zoom poetry readings, from Greening the Earth: A Global Anthology of Poetry (Penguin Random House India).
October 21, 2023. Lit Crawl San Francisco with The Fabulist. Details.
October 10, 2023. Book Talk at the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Women's Spirituality Program, California Institute of Integral Studies.
October 8, 2023. Conversation with Ranjit Hoskote, South Asian Literature and Arts Festival, Menlo College, CA.
September 17, 2023. Reading at Black Bird Bookstore, San Francisco, 1-3pm.
August 24, 2023. Bright Parallel Book Launch and Celebration, Desai | Matta Gallery, San Francisco.
February 12, 2023. Poetry reading at Your Mood Gallery, San Francisco.
February 1, 2023. "Mystical Writing: Poetry and Hermeneutics." Guest Lecture, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Online.
November 4-5, 2022. "Crossing Into Integration: Medicine Narratives," 2022 El Mundo Zurdo Conference: Love, Loss, and Healing: Confronting Coatlicue and Embracing Coyolxauhqui in Corona, University of Texas, San Antonio.
October 29-30, 2022. South Asian Literature and Art Festival. Villa Montalvo, Saratoga.
October 6, 2022. "When Yoginis Appear with Animals: Animistic Relational Elements and the Non-Dual Matrix," Scholar Salon, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. Online.
June 16, 2022. Red Hen Press Readathon. Register.
April 20-21, 2022. Creative Writing MFA Alumni Symposium, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Details.
April 10, 2022. "When Yoginis Appear with Animals: Animistic Relational Elements and the Non-Dual Matrix," at Hearing the Invisible: Lessons from Sentient Beings and Inter-relational Ecosystems, International Symposium of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. Virtual.
April 2, 2022. MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project), San Francisco.
October 21, 2021. Guest Lecture: Creativity and Poetry as Sites of the Liminal for Transformative Justice, Transformative Philosophies of Justice course, California Institute of Integral Studies.
October 16-18, 2021. Women's Spirituality: Opening our Hearts in Response to this Time. Panel at the 2021 Parliament of the World Religions. Virtual.
September 18, 2021. Reading at Poetry with Prakriti: The Online Edition. Register.
September 10, 2021. Poetry at the 18th annual Architecture + The City Festival Opening Day. Spreckels Temple of Music/Concourse, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
August 13-17, 2021. "Homing Instinct" poem installation, Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision, Whitney Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA.
July 16-18, 2021. "Sarasvati," in An Exaltation of Goddesses, 2021 ASWM Online Symposium: Wisdom Across the Ages: Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas. Watch.
June 17, 2021. Invoking Regeneration. Summer Solstice Ritual and Earth Activist Training's 20th Anniversary/Fundraiser. San Francisco.
March 6, 2021. The World Is Circular: artist-poets and poet-artists recite (AWP / SMOL Fair Off-Site Reading).
November 14, 2020. Mystical Writing: Strategies and Imagination. Workshop. Asian American Women Artists Association.
November 7, 2020. Kabir: Mystical Poetry and Hermeneutics. Talk at the Oakland Summer School Fall 2020.
October 10, 2020. Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson (hosted by Drop Leaf Press). Register for link.
Spring/Summer 2020. Featured artist at the Popadum! art exhibition curated by Kamardip Singh for Asian American Women Artists Association. Online gallery.
May 16, 2020. Organizer and host of the Shelter in Sunset Reading Series, via video conference. On Facebook.
May 2, 2020. Bay Area Poets Reading. New Orleans (Virtual) Poetry Festival. Video recording.
April 23, 2020. Panelist on the Peer Review and Academic Publishing Panel, Center for Writing and Scholarship, California Institute of Integral Studies.
March 13-14, 2020. “Staying with the Trouble, Reweaving the World: A Speculative Manifesto for the Visionary/Poet,” Rivers of Change, Prophecy, Possibilities, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.
December 10, 2019. Community Healing Divination Ritual for People of Color. California Institute of Integral Studies.
November 21, 2019. Panelist on the Presenting at Academic Conferences Panel, Center for Writing and Scholarship, California Institute of Integral Studies.
November 14-17, 2019. Moderator, Living Knowledge: Women of Color Resisting Epistemicide and Reclaiming the Sacred, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, San Francisco.
August 29, 2019. Kin to Each Other: Examining Our Borderlands, Atta Galatta, Bangalore.
July 20-21, 2019. Bengaluru Poetry Festival.
June 1, 2019. No Opposite Backyard Poetry Reading, Oakland, CA. Listen.
May 16, 2019. I am organizing and moderating Doing Academia Differently: Emotional/Mental Wellness While Dissertating and Beyond, a panel featuring faculty and doctoral scholars at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
April 16, 2019. “Feminism on the Borderlands: Reclaiming Our Relationships with Modernity, Secularization, and Our Shadow Spaces,” Online Scholar Salon, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology.
April 4, 2019. Retrospective interview of Mallika Sarabhai, California Institute of Integral Studies. Watch.
March 28, 2019. Poetry & Magic. The Raven's Wing, Portland.
March 27-30, 2019. Towards a Visionary Poetics: A Female Gaze. Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference.
March 5, 2019. Doctoral Dissertation Defense, California Institute of Integral Studies. Video.
February 11, 2019. "Autohistoria/teoria: Knowledge, Self, and Culture In Borderland Genres," Interdisciplinary Dissertation Methods Forum, California Institute of the Integral Studies.
December 12, 2018. I am organizing and moderating Non-Western/Other Research Epistemologies & Frameworks, a graduate student panel, at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
December 8-9, 2018. "Colonial Roots of Our Disenchantment" at Oakland Summer School's Winter Gathering.
November 8, 2018. "To Dwell in Our Indigenous Wellness," A Presentation at the Wellness Center, California Institute of Integral Studies.
October 27, 2018. Invocation to Justice with Starhawk & Friends. Reclaiming Spiral Dance, Richmond, CA.
October 12-14, 2018. “Remantling Serpent Energies for the Healing of Post-Patriarchal Possibilities for the Body,
Intimacy, and Futurities,” Women’s Ancestral Wisdom, Witches, and Spiritual Connections to Nature, Women Rising! New Visions for a Post-Patriarchal World, San Francisco, CA. Listen to the talk.
October 10, 2018. Community Healing Divination Ritual for People of Color, A Workshop with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, California Institute of Integral Studies.
March 16-18, 2018. “Serpents, Earth Energies, and the Priestesses that Awakened Them: India’s Pasts, Presents, Futurities Available to a Borderlands Reclaiming,” Scholarly Speculations: Animal, Earth, Person, Story, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference.
April 21, 2017. “The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational Culture,” CIIS Founders Symposium on Integral Consciousness.
March 25, 2017. “The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Remythologizing the Goddess in South Asia/Transnational Culture,” Mythology, Women and Society: Growing the Groundswell, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Symposium.
March 17-19, 2017. “The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Remythologizing the Goddess in South Asia/Transnational Culture,” American Academy of Religion, Western Region.
December 29, 2016. Community Grief Ritual for Ghost Ship Fire, Terra's Temple, Berkeley.
September 21, 2016. An intimate evening of poetry at The Sacred Well - Oakland. Watch.
July 16, 2016. Un Re-Mixing Tied Tongue, Beast Crawl 2016 - Leg Three, Stork Club, Oakland.
June 24, 2016. The Hundy, Wolfman Books, Oakland.
April 16, 2016. Lantern Review reads at the American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco.
February 24, 2016. Poetry at Noise Pop 2016 (supporting Mitski), Swedish American Hall, San Francisco.
October 27, 2015. Season of the Witch, Small Press Distribution, Berkeley.
September 13, 2015. Reading at The Long Haul, Oakland.
August 8, 2015. Bay Area Poetry Marathon: Eighth of the Eighth Summer Event, Artists' Access Television, San Francisco.
June 6-7, 2015. URBAN x INDIGENOUS: Spirits of the Streets, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco.
April 17, 2015. “Dialogical and (Inter)Subjective: Writing Theory as Bricolage,” The Many Voices of East-West Psychology, Cultural Integration Fellowship.
March 7, 2015. Community Grief Ritual, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
February 5, 2015. Silverlining Reading Series, Oakland.
January 24, 2015. The Hundy, E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, Oakland.
October 21, 2023. Lit Crawl San Francisco with The Fabulist. Details.
October 10, 2023. Book Talk at the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Women's Spirituality Program, California Institute of Integral Studies.
October 8, 2023. Conversation with Ranjit Hoskote, South Asian Literature and Arts Festival, Menlo College, CA.
September 17, 2023. Reading at Black Bird Bookstore, San Francisco, 1-3pm.
August 24, 2023. Bright Parallel Book Launch and Celebration, Desai | Matta Gallery, San Francisco.
February 12, 2023. Poetry reading at Your Mood Gallery, San Francisco.
February 1, 2023. "Mystical Writing: Poetry and Hermeneutics." Guest Lecture, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Online.
November 4-5, 2022. "Crossing Into Integration: Medicine Narratives," 2022 El Mundo Zurdo Conference: Love, Loss, and Healing: Confronting Coatlicue and Embracing Coyolxauhqui in Corona, University of Texas, San Antonio.
October 29-30, 2022. South Asian Literature and Art Festival. Villa Montalvo, Saratoga.
October 6, 2022. "When Yoginis Appear with Animals: Animistic Relational Elements and the Non-Dual Matrix," Scholar Salon, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. Online.
June 16, 2022. Red Hen Press Readathon. Register.
April 20-21, 2022. Creative Writing MFA Alumni Symposium, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Details.
April 10, 2022. "When Yoginis Appear with Animals: Animistic Relational Elements and the Non-Dual Matrix," at Hearing the Invisible: Lessons from Sentient Beings and Inter-relational Ecosystems, International Symposium of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. Virtual.
April 2, 2022. MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project), San Francisco.
October 21, 2021. Guest Lecture: Creativity and Poetry as Sites of the Liminal for Transformative Justice, Transformative Philosophies of Justice course, California Institute of Integral Studies.
October 16-18, 2021. Women's Spirituality: Opening our Hearts in Response to this Time. Panel at the 2021 Parliament of the World Religions. Virtual.
September 18, 2021. Reading at Poetry with Prakriti: The Online Edition. Register.
September 10, 2021. Poetry at the 18th annual Architecture + The City Festival Opening Day. Spreckels Temple of Music/Concourse, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
August 13-17, 2021. "Homing Instinct" poem installation, Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision, Whitney Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA.
July 16-18, 2021. "Sarasvati," in An Exaltation of Goddesses, 2021 ASWM Online Symposium: Wisdom Across the Ages: Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas. Watch.
June 17, 2021. Invoking Regeneration. Summer Solstice Ritual and Earth Activist Training's 20th Anniversary/Fundraiser. San Francisco.
March 6, 2021. The World Is Circular: artist-poets and poet-artists recite (AWP / SMOL Fair Off-Site Reading).
November 14, 2020. Mystical Writing: Strategies and Imagination. Workshop. Asian American Women Artists Association.
November 7, 2020. Kabir: Mystical Poetry and Hermeneutics. Talk at the Oakland Summer School Fall 2020.
October 10, 2020. Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson (hosted by Drop Leaf Press). Register for link.
Spring/Summer 2020. Featured artist at the Popadum! art exhibition curated by Kamardip Singh for Asian American Women Artists Association. Online gallery.
May 16, 2020. Organizer and host of the Shelter in Sunset Reading Series, via video conference. On Facebook.
May 2, 2020. Bay Area Poets Reading. New Orleans (Virtual) Poetry Festival. Video recording.
April 23, 2020. Panelist on the Peer Review and Academic Publishing Panel, Center for Writing and Scholarship, California Institute of Integral Studies.
March 13-14, 2020. “Staying with the Trouble, Reweaving the World: A Speculative Manifesto for the Visionary/Poet,” Rivers of Change, Prophecy, Possibilities, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.
December 10, 2019. Community Healing Divination Ritual for People of Color. California Institute of Integral Studies.
November 21, 2019. Panelist on the Presenting at Academic Conferences Panel, Center for Writing and Scholarship, California Institute of Integral Studies.
November 14-17, 2019. Moderator, Living Knowledge: Women of Color Resisting Epistemicide and Reclaiming the Sacred, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, San Francisco.
August 29, 2019. Kin to Each Other: Examining Our Borderlands, Atta Galatta, Bangalore.
July 20-21, 2019. Bengaluru Poetry Festival.
June 1, 2019. No Opposite Backyard Poetry Reading, Oakland, CA. Listen.
May 16, 2019. I am organizing and moderating Doing Academia Differently: Emotional/Mental Wellness While Dissertating and Beyond, a panel featuring faculty and doctoral scholars at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
April 16, 2019. “Feminism on the Borderlands: Reclaiming Our Relationships with Modernity, Secularization, and Our Shadow Spaces,” Online Scholar Salon, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology.
April 4, 2019. Retrospective interview of Mallika Sarabhai, California Institute of Integral Studies. Watch.
March 28, 2019. Poetry & Magic. The Raven's Wing, Portland.
March 27-30, 2019. Towards a Visionary Poetics: A Female Gaze. Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference.
March 5, 2019. Doctoral Dissertation Defense, California Institute of Integral Studies. Video.
February 11, 2019. "Autohistoria/teoria: Knowledge, Self, and Culture In Borderland Genres," Interdisciplinary Dissertation Methods Forum, California Institute of the Integral Studies.
December 12, 2018. I am organizing and moderating Non-Western/Other Research Epistemologies & Frameworks, a graduate student panel, at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
December 8-9, 2018. "Colonial Roots of Our Disenchantment" at Oakland Summer School's Winter Gathering.
November 8, 2018. "To Dwell in Our Indigenous Wellness," A Presentation at the Wellness Center, California Institute of Integral Studies.
October 27, 2018. Invocation to Justice with Starhawk & Friends. Reclaiming Spiral Dance, Richmond, CA.
October 12-14, 2018. “Remantling Serpent Energies for the Healing of Post-Patriarchal Possibilities for the Body,
Intimacy, and Futurities,” Women’s Ancestral Wisdom, Witches, and Spiritual Connections to Nature, Women Rising! New Visions for a Post-Patriarchal World, San Francisco, CA. Listen to the talk.
October 10, 2018. Community Healing Divination Ritual for People of Color, A Workshop with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, California Institute of Integral Studies.
March 16-18, 2018. “Serpents, Earth Energies, and the Priestesses that Awakened Them: India’s Pasts, Presents, Futurities Available to a Borderlands Reclaiming,” Scholarly Speculations: Animal, Earth, Person, Story, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference.
April 21, 2017. “The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational Culture,” CIIS Founders Symposium on Integral Consciousness.
March 25, 2017. “The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Remythologizing the Goddess in South Asia/Transnational Culture,” Mythology, Women and Society: Growing the Groundswell, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Symposium.
March 17-19, 2017. “The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Remythologizing the Goddess in South Asia/Transnational Culture,” American Academy of Religion, Western Region.
December 29, 2016. Community Grief Ritual for Ghost Ship Fire, Terra's Temple, Berkeley.
September 21, 2016. An intimate evening of poetry at The Sacred Well - Oakland. Watch.
July 16, 2016. Un Re-Mixing Tied Tongue, Beast Crawl 2016 - Leg Three, Stork Club, Oakland.
June 24, 2016. The Hundy, Wolfman Books, Oakland.
April 16, 2016. Lantern Review reads at the American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco.
February 24, 2016. Poetry at Noise Pop 2016 (supporting Mitski), Swedish American Hall, San Francisco.
October 27, 2015. Season of the Witch, Small Press Distribution, Berkeley.
September 13, 2015. Reading at The Long Haul, Oakland.
August 8, 2015. Bay Area Poetry Marathon: Eighth of the Eighth Summer Event, Artists' Access Television, San Francisco.
June 6-7, 2015. URBAN x INDIGENOUS: Spirits of the Streets, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco.
April 17, 2015. “Dialogical and (Inter)Subjective: Writing Theory as Bricolage,” The Many Voices of East-West Psychology, Cultural Integration Fellowship.
March 7, 2015. Community Grief Ritual, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
February 5, 2015. Silverlining Reading Series, Oakland.
January 24, 2015. The Hundy, E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, Oakland.
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