About
Nimmi Gowrinathan is an activist, writer, scholar, and founder of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative that works to center the political voice of young women and queer folx. She is the Publisher of Adi Magazine, and the creator of the Female Fighter Series at Guernica Magazine. Described by Valerial Luiselli as proof of a “political imagination like no other” her first book, Radicalizing Her (Beacon Press, 2021), examines the complex politics of the female fighter. Her political essays, which have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Freeman’s Journal, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, and Foreign Affairs, among others have been described as “searing in a search for answers” (Publisher’s Weekly). Her forthcoming book, Occupation and the Body (Yale, 2026) reads injury from the intimate terrain of the body to locate deeper impulses towards liberation.
