Writing Sisterhood – Writing Women

A letter of Complaint, A Letter of Resistance

Gurpreet Kaur

I write a letter, not to a person, place, thing. But a letter to a time. To a time with co-workers who were friends and allies. To several colleagues and

‘Teslam Eedek’

Roa'a Eid

I do not remember the first time I said ‘teslam eedek’ to my mother. It is quite a strange phrase when taken out of its Egyptian context but it can

Architects of Joy, Over and Over Again

Maryam Fatima

My mother and her sisters were born at a table where harm was never too far. It has been an eight seater for as long as I have been here.

A Graduate’s Denial

Vaishnavi Manju Pal

Some people graduate once in a generation. My oldest memories are of seeing a room full of onions—or in this case, two-thirds of the house filled with onions harvested from

Migrant Women and Freedom

Akankasha Choudhary

Jyoti used to live in Gagodhar, a small village in the Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh. In her village, as soon as girls hit puberty, the elders start searching for

Tired Mother and Technology

Fouziya Tehzeeb

The picture of a standing mother in a kitchen is ubiquitous. From dawn till beyond dusk. I have always observed my mother, managing the household chores. I have heard stories

Disquiet of the Labouring Body

Tanyaa Sharma

I After a night’s sleep intermittently interrupted by sharp, penetrative period cramps, announcing the arrival of a difficult cycle, my alarm rings at 7 am. It reminds me of what

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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