Becky Blab

Since last Monday, I’ve watched in horror and disbelief at Superstorm Sandy’s devastation. At first it was unclear just how widespread the wreckage was, but it has been slowly unraveling with each day.  I wanted to do something and tried to sign up to volunteer through the Red Cross, but there were several obstacles: they [...]

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Wednesday night I went to a WAMentoring session (Women and Media) where Samhita Mukhopadhyay (@TheSamhita) was the main guest. In 2005 while a gender studies student at LSE, I stumbled upon the Feministing blog and devoured its abundant content. It was my first experience of a blog, and rather than commenting courageously on the posts, [...]

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It’s a beautiful summer day. I can’t believe it’s already June, the second. One year ago today, we arrived in the US. A year ago yesterday, we took our four suitcases and left our lives in India behind, almost five years worth of experiences, fears, memories, adventures. Salil has in fact just made that same [...]

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I have been working with UNICEF’s Social and Civic Media team since March 2nd and feel incredibly lucky for the opportunity. It is a new section, and doing a great job negotiating the sticky terrain which comes with attempting to organize social media for such an enormous, international organization. A few weeks ago, I had [...]

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This week, my grandfather celebrated his 97th birthday. We had a party on Sunday, that I helped to organize thanks to Facebook. His birthday was either the 9th or 10th, no one was sure since it hadn’t been recorded. Today, 97 years ago he was just a few days old. But this morning at 3am [...]

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