Author Archives: Andrew Abdelmessih

When reading Mythri Jegathesan’s piece Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka, it was not obvious to me at first what Jegathesan was articulating when differentiating from the older times of Sri Lanka, before colonialism. However, … Continue reading →

Since the beginning of time, we have come to recognize the progression of people’s different sexualities and the positive change in norms presented towards races. However, this only applies to the United States, whereas many other third world developing countries … Continue reading →

In Shange’s “Progressive Dystopia”, we learn Shange’s ethnographic approach to a much larger issue that many don’t comprehend until further observation has taken place. In Shange’s observation, we learn her relationship between her casual classroom observations to her closer interviews … Continue reading →