Yusra QureshiDesi for a Day: The Commercialization & Appropriation of Brown Culture in the USChai in India — good chai — is darker than my skin. It steeps in tea leaves and spices for ten minutes, boiling and cooling over and over…Mar 25, 2021Mar 25, 2021
Yusra QureshiBlame it on the Alcohol: How Hand Sanitizer Overuse May Create a SuperbugPublished in Washington University in St. Louis’s Review of Health, Frontiers Magazine.Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Yusra QureshiNetflix and Colonize: An Analysis of White Supremacy in Never Have I EverThis research paper was written as the final assignment in my College Writing Program class “Writing Identity.”Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Yusra QureshiSeeing the Opioid Crisis in ColorThis position paper was written as a final assignment for my first semester of Medicine and Society, a four-year anthropological program…Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Yusra QureshiViolent Silence: A Valley InstitutionA look into white suburbia’s complicity in systemic prejudice through its victims’ eyesAug 10, 2020Aug 10, 2020
Yusra QureshiCreating the Rape Capital of the World: part 1, a historyIn 2011, I spent six months in Hyderabad, India, steeping in the culture of my parents. To say I enjoyed every second would be a lie — but…Jul 17, 2020Jul 17, 2020