In this episode, Zahra and Taz branch off to explore their own produced narratives of home and belonging.
In this episode, Taz explores the only Little Bangladesh located in the heart of Los Angeles. It got it’s official designation in 2010 by the City of Los Angeles.
Our guest for the eating tour is illustrator and author and fellow punk Bangladeshi Fahmida Azim! (And check her IG @Fahmida_Azim)
Fahmida Azim is the illustrator behind the book Muslim Women Are Everything that just published this spring.
Fahmida and Taz met because we did a page in a book together - Six Words Fresh Off the Boat.
The music we hear in this episode is by the amazing Bangladeshi-New-York hip hop artist Anik Khan.
Fahmida’s gibbly nihari illustration that got her started on her path is very delicious looking.
The music we heard came from the Bangladesh Academy of Los Angeles.
Bengal Liquor had no Bengali liquor.
The book that helped Taz connect with her mom is Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies.
The walking tour of Little Bangladesh took us through delicious eats that we highly recommend you visit - check out Bangla Bazar, Asian Mart, Deshi Food and Groceries, Katsuri Halal Meat, Aladin Sweets, and Biriyani Kabob House.
In Zahra’s piece, she talks about the body’s ability to be in homeostasis.
Hanna’s family escaped Palestine because in the Nakba - learn more about it here.
