Theory

Literature by ZohraJuly 10, 2009September 14, 2009

a thesis on the work of mythologizing my family and our history of migration

This is an excerpt of a Senior Thesis by Pat Chau about my poem “The Difference Between Rubies and Pomegranates.” It was an honor reading this and to see myself nestled among my own feminist heroes: bell hooks (who taught me to teach), Gloria Anzaldua (who taught me the word mestiza), and Audre Lorde (who […]

Zohra Saed Projects by ZohraApril 9, 2009October 29, 2018

High School Zohra: The Recession Now and the Recession Then

This is my favorite. A flashback to the recession of the early 1990s, sophomore year at Sheepshead Bay High School, Brooklyn. Goth music, dark matte lipstick, and scrunchies ruled supreme. My name was spelled different (before I reclaimed the name I was born with and not the name the translators misspelled on my passport paperwork […]