Books – Writing Women

Keepers of the Womb

Aditi Dasgupta

Hey, It has taken me months to pen this down—a letter I suppose I’m writing to you, to me, to her. I remember reading Chughtai’s Dust of the Caravan over

Recording Resistance: How Domestic Workers Use TikTok to Challenge Precarity in the Gulf

Aditi Verma

The machinery of our global capitalist economy is designed to exploit caregiving and domestic labor, while erasing the humanity of those who perform it. In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Friendship and the Kitchen; Three Women and their Quest for Space

Tinaz Nawaz

Seeing my mother hate the kitchen and my aunt love it, I was very confused. Growing up, I couldn’t decide if liking it would betray my mother, or hating it

Press(ing)work: The Labor Economics of Feminist Small Press Publishing in the Philippines

Faye Cura

Gantala Press, a Filipino women’s press that I founded while employed in a private library, celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2025. I reflect here on how we, in our smallness,

In Begumpura, their bodies shall find rest.

Aishwarya AVRaj

For an audio-visual project on outward migration from Bihar, I was speaking to professor Brahma Prakash, a writer and Professor at JNU, over a Zoom meeting. He said, “…Britishers took

Boiling Water: for Tea and The Enemy

Rawan Gamal Agha

For the longest of times, women are portrayed… No. Not even portrayed. Simply, “Women belong to the kitchen,” they say—a phrase that can be traced back to Eve, who was

Hands That Hold a Marketplace

Zufishan Rahman

The marketplace is not merely a place of trade; it is a realm of labor, endurance, and negotiation: a living organism held together by the hands of women. These hands,

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