Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 18, 2009, 6:18 pm
I received 3 emails today from different sources, asking for my blog posts on the intersectionality of immigration and LGBT rights. I will just index everything I have written on the issue (not much)...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 16, 2009, 2:40 am
Never one to be a Kareena Kapoor fan (let alone a Saifeena one), when the Shiv Sena took out a ‘morcha’ against the new poster of Kareena in Kurbaan, with her back in nude, I momentarily a...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 12, 2009, 9:02 pm
Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in ...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 11, 2009, 5:30 pm
It’s Pirate of the Fiji Islands, the third sequel. The first two starred Sitiveni Rabuka but he was dethroned by George Speight for the third movie, which really crashed and burned at the box of...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 8, 2009, 9:11 pm
I finally broke my silence and spoke out in the media against the repressive Fijian regime. And now I probably cannot come back home. Who would want to go back to Fiji in this state? People are not t...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 8, 2009, 3:31 am
The House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962 (Affordable Health Care for America Act) known here as a bailout for private insurance companies, in what is lauded as a victory for Obama and health care...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 7, 2009, 8:04 pm
Media Bias on Fort Hood Tragedy This isn’t particularly surprising. American civil liberties get massacred during such crises. Instead of calling Major Hasan an ‘alleged’ shooter t...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 5, 2009, 10:00 am
They raided the law society in Fiji, sacked the judiciary, put journalists in jail, punched and deported academics. I have a BA in Political Science, an MA in International Relations, currently a law ...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 4, 2009, 6:45 pm
Dear Illegal PM of my country, I hope this email gets to you or gets published in a medium that can reach you. Unfortunately, you seem to have isolated yourself from the press instead of using it to ...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 4, 2009, 6:23 pm
Now illegal Prime Minister of Fiji, Voreqe ‘Coupster’ Bainimarama has totally pissed me off with his detention expulsion of leading academic Dr. Brij Lal from the Fiji Islands. An Austral...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 4, 2009, 3:02 pm
There is an outpouring of sympathy and empathy in my email box today regarding the loss of marriage equality in Maine last night. This is what I officially thought about losing Question 1. My radical...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 3, 2009, 1:34 am
An index of my immigration blogs for Change.org last month 9500 Liberty: 9-11 Not the Same as 7-11 Waiting for Change One Step Closer to Lifting the HIV+ Travel Ban Showdown: Gavin Newsom vs. Sanc...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Nov 1, 2009, 10:45 am
The latest press freedom index rankings released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has Fiji plunging 73 places to 152 after a crackdown on the media by Fijian dictator Frank Bainimarama. No criticis...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 31, 2009, 2:13 am
“Fiji is my home. I love Idaho but my heart will always be home in Ca’audrove.” -Hosanna Kabakoro This story about a 16-year old Fijian-American teenager winning a beauty contest i...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 15, 2009, 9:22 pm
Commodore Bainimarama’s speech to the UN General Assembly last month: Fiji has suffered more than 20 years of mismanagement, corruption, and nepotism. Our infrastructure, our judicial system, a...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 14, 2009, 5:44 pm
Alright, so I promised some changes and here they are - I took a job as a blogger at Change.org for their Immigration cause so it is likely that all my immigration blogging would go there, primarily....
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 13, 2009, 4:30 pm
To quote him, ‘the worst is yet to come.’ I am not a doomsayer but Immanuel Wallerstein is a much respected economist, credited for World Systems Theory. I would usually stray away from pr...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 13, 2009, 3:09 am
After my more serious message at Change.org Immigration today, lets have some fun with this ‘illegal alien’ bloke. In no particular order, seriously Columbus, you had huge navigating prob...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 10, 2009, 3:10 am
Fantastic cover shot from The Advocate referring to how Obama has let down queers.  He certainly owes the LGBT community much more than he has delivered thus far. But he is telling us to ‘wait&...
Comment - Like

Prerna L. posted an article on No Borders and Binaries - Oct 7, 2009, 3:13 am
Given that Juan Gomez–an undocumented student from Florida–is studying at Georgetown University, I found this bit of their law school application quite fascinating: It’s the only law school out...
Comment - Like