Sohel SarkarExploring 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…15 min read·Dec 28, 2021----
Sohel Sarkar‘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…6 min read·Jan 22, 2021----
Sohel SarkarNetflix’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…6 min read·Sep 22, 2020----
Sohel SarkarMemory 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?”12 min read·Sep 18, 2020----
Sohel SarkarSisters 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…4 min read·Jul 5, 2020----
Sohel SarkarinBooks 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.8 min read·Jul 2, 2020----
Sohel SarkarCentring the Colonised: A Review of Priyamvada Gopal’s ‘Insurgent Empire’This extensive archival research sheds myths and reverses colonial narratives.14 min read·Jul 2, 2020----
Sohel SarkarQueer 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.4 min read·Jul 2, 2020----
Sohel Sarkar‘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.7 min read·Jan 6, 2020----