After a fun night out, Yara comes home and feels the anxiety of being alone. In many attempts to ease the discomfort, Yara tries something she hadn’t felt good enough to do in a long time.

Resilience, beauty, and overcoming adversity.

A “word dump” poem I wrote when my grief felt too big to hold inside of me, and I was seeking a form of self-soothing.

This is my second story for Yara that overviews the nuances of grief and loss as she recollects her last evening with her grandmother.

This is the first story I wrote for Yara. On a late October night, Yara must decide between choosing to protect herself or protect Aidan.

An elementary tale of an alien’s journey to find home

In the summer of 2020, my best friend, Nabihah, and I found ourselves engaging in a lot of conversation around the Black Lives Matter movement in our Bangladeshi communities. We noticed that there were gaps in language that created barriers to understanding the movement. Thus, we put together a video to help begin to bridge that gap.