This piece is incredibly special to me; it’s about the beautiful, messy process of letting go.
Midnight Messages From a River
Class of 2022
To Future Fariya
I imagined what I would like to say to myself 15 years in the future.
Pledge of Allegiance (Revised)
Pledge of Allegiance: Revised” is a subversion of the American Dream through the lens of mental wellbeing; “gifted” is a gilded promise unraveled by statistics and a vow to embrace the strength of vulnerability.
Eternal Discourse: The Stanford Prison Experiment [Episode 1]
In the first episode of Eternal Discourse, a podcast centered on complex social issues, Salma and Ashley cover the Stanford Prison Experiment, the unethical psychological demonstration conducted by professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971.
Curvy Wars
Curvy Wars is a training plan to help motivate me to wear my back brace for the hours required. I wear a brace for scoliosis and have been for four years.
Letter from Home
A poem reflecting on the relationship between Earth and humans.
Kawtagain Shore
Growth spurts, while necessary, tend come with unavoidable growth pains. These pains—these fragments of limbo—make our eventual transformation all the more delectable.
dying unnoticed
This is a poem about environmental justice that adopts the voice of the Earth or Mother Nature and aims to bring awareness to how our actions can have a negative impact on our climate.
Nebula
A reading of the poem Nebula, accompanied by the art of Flow.
Nighttime routine in disguise as love poem
A poem about washing my face, and watching someone else wash their face, and being a hopeless romantic.
Surveillance
In a world where speech is heavily monitored, Hannan is left reeling after spotting her former friend at a protest. She attempts to tell her sister, wary of who might be listening.
By the Waterfront
WNYC Transmitter Park is a staple afternoon park for many, located at the bank of the East River. When observing the park and Greenpoint overall, I realize just how much it’s changed.
Don’t Water Dead Flowers
This is a piece, derived from my own experience, about the difficulty of letting people go. It was written in hopes of reaching an audience that, too, have experienced this and helping them move on.
Bruised Skies
A combination of photos taken this spring, as I prepared to graduate high school, along with poems attempting to capture a range of emotions I’ve struggled to articulate.
Blue Flower
A sketch piece from a story that takes place in cyberpunk Andalus.