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Anuradha Banerji

Anuradha is a politically engaged researcher, organiser, writer and a perennial dreamer.

The Presence of your Absence: Grieving as Translation

Anuradha Banerji

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Library of Feminist Legacies
Writing Sisterhood
In Translation
Record and Remembering
Women Labour Resistance

Library of Feminist Legacies
Writing Sisterhood
In Translation
Record and Remembering
Women Labour Resistance

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This book is an undoing, read with us so we can be

This book is an undoing, read with us so we can be undone together.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s ‘Theory of Water’ is our reading circle’s next read and so far it feels like a beautiful homecoming. Here water is more than life, ecology, resource, or metaphor but a map for us to chart relational and reciprocal ways of being. A map for as she describes it, ‘creating constellations of co-resistance.’

Honestly the more we learn of Indigenous knowledge systems the more we’re convinced it will save the world. Walk, swim, breathe, dream into this book with us!

Our online session will be on Oct 26th and we’ll share a zoom link closer to the date. We also have an Instagram group that’s almost at capacity, and will be starting a whatsapp group soon, get in touch for more info if you’d like to join.
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#writingwomen #readingcircle #theoryofwater #nishnaabe #mapstothetimesahead #leannebetasamosakesimpson #indigenouslit #indigenousknowledgesystems #worldmaking #readwithus #relationalliving #remaketheworld

“She carried the inherited duty and quietly tran

“She carried the inherited duty and quietly translated it, as obligation into care, as friendship. My mother didn’t just pass down recipes; she passed down the meaning of food in her life, rewoven into something entirely new for mine. Through her, I learnt that cooking isn’t only about feeding, it’s about nurturing, connecting, and practicing love in its everyday form.”

Sneha builds a moving visual narrative of her mother’s resistance, showing us how this translates into her own life. And the loving friendships they have grown are nothing short of revolutionary ❤️

Read/view in full on writingwomen.co along with other essays from the In Translation series co-edited with @hemlynr - also see @seeking_hope.magic and @womenandfriendships for more radical stories of care and friendship 🌺
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#writingwomen #intranslation #photoessays #inheritances #intergenerationallearning #radicalove #womensfriendships #womentranslatingwomen #feministnarratives #storiesofcare #mothersanddaughters #translationbeyondlanguage #womenintranslation #creativenonfiction

“We were never told to erase ourselves — but m

“We were never told to erase ourselves — but many of us did it anyway.”

Aishwarya takes us through folktales, foods, and stories from her childhood in this resonant piece because as she says, “I want you to feel what it means to carry a language in your mouth like a prayer you were told to outgrow. To love a word so much that even when you say it in translation, it still tastes like home.”

Read the full piece on writingwomen.co and see @aish_whereya_at for more essays and visual stories. This piece is part of the translation series co-edited with @hemlynr 🌺

If there’s a word that still feels like home to you, even after translation, we’d love to hear 🙌🏽
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#writingwomen #intranslation #mothertongue #languageashome #creativenonfiction #essays #onlanguage #bengali #womentranslatingtheirtongues

Hadeel Al-Gharbawi is a journalist and educator ru

Hadeel Al-Gharbawi is a journalist and educator running Al-Jawad camp and its incredible programs for displaced children in Gaza including meals, education, art, and much much more 🍉

The occupation army has now uprooted their camp and Hadeel is trying to find space to set up in the South, which requires immense funds and labour. If you can help, please donate through the chuffed link on their page or by using the QR code on the post 🌿

Donate, share, organize and act however possible, because mutual aid is loving practice, and as the children’s artwork tells us ‘you’re never too small to be mighty” ❤️
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#aljawadcamp #gaza #thechildrenarealwaysours

“…Freedom may have been captured, but it is no

“…Freedom may have been captured, but it is not dead. On roads heading my way, there are thousands in a convoy desperate to reach the unreachable, and not a single crow blemishes the sky. Because there is a force within humanity that surpasses death. Across a peninsula… there are no crows over starving bodies, crumbling bodies, dying bodies. Because vultures do not feed on that which will never die.”

Roa’a wrote this piece in June when the Madleen vessel of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was abducted by Israeli forces on international waters. She speaks of translating guilt and hope, and we can’t think of a more powerful way, than her poetic, lyrical essay symbolized by the crow, and the sea. Read it in full on writingwomen.co

As the Sumud Flotilla sets sail, the latest, and most hopeful, in a long history of freedom flotillas that have attempted to break the siege on Gaza since 2010, we hope beyond hope that they reach the shores and people of Gaza in ways that only people’s movements can.

The beautiful art and collage work is created by Nahal Sheikh, who thoughtfully tailors the art to each piece with so much care. In love with everything she makes! See both @roaa_t_eid and @nahalsheikh for more critical visual and written work!
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#writingwomen #intranslation #thecrowonthebeach #translatingguilt #translatinghope #gazafreedomflotilla #sumudfreedomflotilla #palestine #willbefree #breaktheseige #womentranslatingwomen #creativenonfiction #freedomcanneverdie

“I grieve the impossibility of translation betwe

“I grieve the impossibility of translation between two people who shared blood but no common tongue. Maybe shared rage, but never love. And in that grief, there’s a strange kind of loyalty as well, to the truth of what was, not the fairy tale of what should have been.”

In their deeply moving personal essay Addhaya troubles translation, violence and grief in all the right ways. Read it in full on writingwomen.co and see @okaddhaya for more!

This essay is part of the ‘In Translation’ series co-edited by @hemlynr , releasing slowly over the next few weeks
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#writingwomen #intranslation #dictionaryofmyfathersviolence ##personalessays #translatingviolence #translatinggrief #feministlit #troublingtranslations

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