stories of radical feminism
past, present, future
Anu–baad, Translation
content note for sexual violence . My grandmother sits on the verandah, her legs spread out, descaling fish, one after another, after another, as the
The Oppressor’s Tongue
“Aapke paas paanch-das minute ka time hai kya? Mujhe Sassoon Dock ke baare mein jaankaari chahiye. (Could you spare 5-10 minutes? I need some information
A Caseworker’s Diary of Hope and Delusion
I recently witnessed the birth of my niece. Her first look made me believe that there is a piece of that child in me who
Traditions of the Tongue, Translating a Lepcha Folk Song ‘Mutanchi Lungten’
My sister’s favourite Lepcha song is not any of the current, modern songs ruling the local charts. Hers is a folk song known as ‘Muntanchi
The Presence of your Absence: Grieving as Translation
There is a story—part musicology, part myth—that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the Chaconne, the monumental final movement of his Partita No. 2 in D minor
My Mother’s Everyday Acts of Resistance and Radical Friendships
Pramila Shetty, a.k.a. Pamu, my mother, started cooking at an early age as a daily chore assigned by my Amma, her mother. She began cooking
The Taste of a Word You Cannot Say
Whether for the love of the story, or because of a colonial hangover we have yet to calm, children often grow up on fairytales that
The Crow at the Beach
“All Activists on the Freedom Flotilla have been Abducted by Israel” There is a crow at the beach. A murder on the shore. The cry
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Writing Women is a seed bank. Every story of radical feminism from our past and present is a seed that powers our imagination for the future. We seek to fill these pages with seeds of writings, oral tales, songs, poems and art that reveal resistance, sisterhood and decolonizing solidarity across borders of landscape and language from Palestine to Turtle Island, the Congo to Kashmir.
“There She Goes,” Reviewing The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
A handbook is an assortment of guidelines or instructions on a specific topic. But a handbook on killing joy? Who exactly is a killjoy, and why do we need a
The Many Lives of Syeda X: Whose Story Is It Anyway?
The aromas of different spices and herbs engulfed all my senses the moment we stepped foot in the area. We were at the Khari Baoli market as a part of
Transnational Truth-Telling as Sanity
Two books, this week, have kept me sane. One is Michelle Good’s collection of seven essays about Indigenous life in Canada aptly titled ‘Truth Telling,’ and the other is Isabella
