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Exploring Creative Kinships and Finding Black Women Voices with Alice Walker’s Anthology

How 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 readDec 28, 2021

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Exploring Creative Kinships and Finding Black Women Voices with Alice Walker’s Anthology

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Sohel Sarkar

‘The White Tiger’ Is a Searing Indictment of Power, Let Down by the Stereotypes

In 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 readJan 22, 2021

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‘The White Tiger’ Is a Searing Indictment of Power, Let Down by the Stereotypes

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Sohel Sarkar

Netflix’s ‘The Betty Broderick Story’ and Why We Penalise Angry Women

In the fifth episode of ‘Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story’, a court-appointed therapist tries to guide an increasingly agitated Betty…

6 min readSep 22, 2020

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Netflix’s ‘The Betty Broderick Story’ and Why We Penalise Angry Women

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Sohel Sarkar

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?”

12 min readSep 18, 2020

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Memory as a Form of Justice in ‘I May Destroy You’ and ‘The Tale’

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Sohel Sarkar

The Fragile Utopia in Akwaeke Emezi’s ‘Pet’

3 min readJul 5, 2020

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The Fragile Utopia in Akwaeke Emezi’s ‘Pet’

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Sohel Sarkar

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…

4 min readJul 5, 2020

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Sisters in Solidarity: Review of ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’

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Sohel Sarkar
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Books Are Our Superpower

Sara 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 readJul 2, 2020

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Sara Ahmed’s Latest Book Is a Queer Take on ‘Use’ and ‘Usefulness’

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Sohel Sarkar

Centring the Colonised: A Review of Priyamvada Gopal’s ‘Insurgent Empire’

This extensive archival research sheds myths and reverses colonial narratives.

14 min readJul 2, 2020

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Centring the Colonised: A Review of Priyamvada Gopal’s ‘Insurgent Empire’

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Sohel Sarkar

Queer Pleasures of the South Asian Kitchen

The queer kitchen is a space for forming other kinds of communities of care outside of oppressive heteronormative structures of family.

4 min readJul 2, 2020

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Queer Pleasures of the South Asian Kitchen

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Sohel Sarkar
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Her Vision

‘Girl, Woman, Other’ Review: Navigating Identity, Difference & Togetherness

Evaristo’s book is a powerful and joyful counterpoint to the near invisibility of womxn of colour in literary productions.

7 min readJan 6, 2020

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‘Girl, Woman, Other’ Review: Navigating Identity, Difference & Togetherness

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Sohel Sarkar

Sohel Sarkar

Feminist researcher-writer and journalist. Just completed a Master’s degree in gender studies at SOAS and currently (anxiously) dreaming of a PhD. She/her.

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