Samra’s Poem

See, my name is Samra Samra Kesinovic. By now, the letters that string together into the formation of my name Have disappeared into the horizons of numbers and numbers ticking into television screens, tallied dashes, And flying announcements. “One gone!” the media screeches! “Never Come back!” they cry. See, my name is Samra and my…

Why it Simply Sucks to be a Bosnian in a Western Muslim Community: Genocide, Rape, and Approaching Community Politics

February 16,  21 years after the independence of Bosnia in the bloody genocide where Chetnik Serbs slaughtered women, men, and children for the sake of the “Greater Serbia,” the first Bosnian was registered as a Bosnian. The number of tweets about this: not enough to make it trending or show up. Number of Facebook posts…