Exploring Creative Kinships and Finding Black Women Voices with Alice Walker’s AnthologyHow does the Black woman writer-artist come of age in a world where the only available role models are White and/or male; how does the…Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021
‘The White Tiger’ Is a Searing Indictment of Power, Let Down by the StereotypesIn 2015, Indian actor Salman Khan was convicted for killing a homeless man in a hit-and-run crash in Mumbai, 13 years after the accident…Jan 22, 2021Jan 22, 2021
Netflix’s ‘The Betty Broderick Story’ and Why We Penalise Angry WomenIn the fifth episode of ‘Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story’, a court-appointed therapist tries to guide an increasingly agitated Betty…Sep 22, 2020Sep 22, 2020
Memory as a Form of Justice in ‘I May Destroy You’ and ‘The Tale’“What is it for, the past, one’s own or the world’s? To what end question it so closely?”Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020
Sisters in Solidarity: Review of ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’With a title like this, the opening had better not disappoint. And Oyinkan Braithwaite’s ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ does better than…Jul 5, 2020Jul 5, 2020
Published inBooks Are Our SuperpowerSara Ahmed’s Latest Book Is a Queer Take on ‘Use’ and ‘Usefulness’The question, “what’s the use?” is the engine that drives Sara Ahmed’s queer feminist critique of use and usefulness in her latest book.Jul 2, 2020Jul 2, 2020
Centring the Colonised: A Review of Priyamvada Gopal’s ‘Insurgent Empire’This extensive archival research sheds myths and reverses colonial narratives.Jul 2, 2020Jul 2, 2020
Queer Pleasures of the South Asian KitchenThe queer kitchen is a space for forming other kinds of communities of care outside of oppressive heteronormative structures of family.Jul 2, 2020Jul 2, 2020
‘Girl, Woman, Other’ Review: Navigating Identity, Difference & TogethernessEvaristo’s book is a powerful and joyful counterpoint to the near invisibility of womxn of colour in literary productions.Jan 6, 2020Jan 6, 2020