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Identity

An Indian man in his late sixties sits on a sofa in jeans and a dress shirt, cuddled up next to a white-and-gray cat.

Rice and khadi

My father Ashvin had this comforting soup-type thing for lunch at least once a week when I was growing up. It came up in a course I’m taking about partswork and ancestry, and one of my fellow students asked for the recipe. Here is how I make it, based on my recollection.

Ashvin Chudgar’s Tomato Soup Recipe

Ashvin Chudgar’s Tomato Soup Recipe

This recipe, never before written down, is one of my father’s “third culture” recipes. It is easy to do, cheap and warming, and nice for children and grown-ups alike.

An x-ray of the side of my head, showing the bottom of my skull, the jaw, and some neck vertebrae.

How I am learning to be embodied

The radical political insights of disability justice are changing everything for me — not just how I see the world, but how I understand myself as an embodied person and as a coach to my clients, who are all embodied too.

Animated GIF of a Progress Pride flag snapping in a fresh breeze.

Queerness and liberation

My own ongoing liberation from traumatized sexual shame to queer joy feels like the central fact of my life these days, and it’s the story of ongoing healing I share with coaching clients the most.

Scanned Polaroid photo of a South Asian man, a white woman, and their 9- and 1-year-old sons.

What I’ve been learning about racism

What does it mean for a coach like me to put anti-racism into practice in my work? Thinking through that question has led me to understand my own cultural identities differently.