essays
Los Angeles Times
We moved from New York in a doughnut truck. Would L.A. offer new adventures?
NBC News THINK
'Sunday scaries' weekend anxiety getting worse? Blame Covid--and capitalism.
Salon
Netflix's pole dance therapy film "Strip Down, Rise Up" exploits trauma & is fixated on male gaze
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/15/strip-down-rise-up-netflix-pole-dance-trauma-feminism/
Los Angeles Review of Books
Twenty Years After "Twentynine Palms" Anticipated #MeToo
https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/twenty-years-after-twentynine-palms-anticipated-metoo/
Discomfort of the Unquantifiable: On Selina Mahmood's "A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital"
The Coachella Review Blog
Voice to Books: The Black Panther Party
http://thecoachellareview.com/2021/07/27/voice-to-books-see-it-read-it-love-it/
Book Review and Interview with Author Maggie Downs: Braver Than You Think
Summer Blockbusters of Yore: The Twentieth Anniversary of an Overshadowed Trilogy
Book Review: T Kira Madden's Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
The Favourite and Mary Queen of Scots: Putting the Period in a Period Piece
GXRL
The Summer of Pussy
https://gxrlpod.com/summer-of-pussy/
Devil: Tim Burton Adaptations; Advocate: Me
https://gxrlpod.com/tim-burton/
The Affair and the Narcissistic Philanderer
https://gxrlpod.com/the-affair-and-the-narcissistic-philanderer/
The American Institute for Psychoanalysis
Dark Phoenix as Psychoanalytic Allegory
https://aipnyc.org/latest-x-men-film-as-psychoanalytic-allegory/
Push and Pole
Now We’re Awake: Instagram Shadowbanning of Pole Dance Community
Medium
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and the Millennial's Place in the World
screenwriting
MOTHERLAND
One-Hour Dramedy Pilot - 2024 Film Independent Episodic Lab, 2023 Austin Film Festival Finalist
Logline:
A disillusioned Indian-American doctor who dreams of being a Hollywood star is in over her head when she finally lands a lead role…in a Bollywood movie. Now she’ll dive head first into the drama of stardom and Bollywood politics (and music!) all while hiding her ambitions from her overbearing mother, who has a secret past of her own.
GLAZED & CONFUSED
Half-Hour Comedy Pilot
Logline:
A New Jersey white collar felon needs a way to reclaim luxury and success, but without options, he enters the food truck business. Now with his unhelpful sole employee by his side, he must handle dramatic clients and mount an offensive against the head of the mafia-like food truck coalition all while trying to turn his modest new company into a donut empire from his Indian immigrant parents' garage.
STONE AGE
Comedy Feature - The Writers Room 50/50 Semifinalist; 2x Screencraft Quarterfinalist
Logline:
A raging feminist cavewoman who rails against the tyranny of the tribe patriarch instigates the first ever battle of the sexes. The winner could decide the fate of humanity.
FROM WITHIN THE WALLS
Horror Feature
Logline:
A young ironworker flees his Mormon community after his friends conjure spirits with a Ouija board and then gruesomely die one by one. But when his sister begins to tamper with the same forces that hunted his friends, he must return to face the mysterious evil that could be his only chance to get out alive.