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Fall 2022

Contested Histories

Spring 2022

Afghan Women: A Polyphony

Winter 2022

Her Traces

Fall 2021

Unpeopled Terrain

Spring 2021

Flash the Coup / Stories from Myanmar

Winter 2021

White Deeds

Fall 2020

Policy Recommendations: Poets Intervene

Summer 2020

Kashmir: Silence Is Not An Option

Spring 2020

Terror in South Asia

Winter 2019

Freedom of Movement

Fall 2019

Domestic Dissonance

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“The Garret” by our founder & publisher Nimmi “The Garret” by our founder & publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan is a profound meditation on the blurred lines between freedom and captivity in the narrative practices of women of color.

Drawing on the story of Harriet Jacobs, a runaway slave girl in the mid 1800s who had to remain hidden in a garret to survive, Nimmi illuminates the alternately liberatory and limiting, open and reductive, ways that narrative is wielded by women under oppressive conditions to articulate (and negotiate for) our lives.
Spring is coming! If like us, you are hungry for s Spring is coming! If like us, you are hungry for some guidance grounded in love and ancestral wisdom, this is the gathering you’ve been waiting for. 

We are thrilled to collaborate with celebrated Black feminist scholar, poet & priestess @alexispauline to offer an oracle reading rooted in the life and work of Audre Lorde. 

This event is free but spots are limited. Share with your beloveds & reserve your tickets ASAP via link in bio. 

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs is cherished by a wide range of communities as an oracle and a vessel of love. Drawing on over 25 years of experience as a writer and facilitator, her inclusive practice finds us and brings us into the ceremonies we have always needed. Her books include: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke Press, 2020), M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke Press 2018), Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke Press, 2016) and Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016). Alexis was honored with a Whiting Award in non-fiction in 2022 and lauded for creating "modern fables that offer new methods of feeling." Alexis is also a 2022 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. In 2020-2021 Alexis was awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship to work on her forthcoming biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Alexis was honored to be guest faculty for the 2022 Witches and Warriors Writing Retreat alongside Cynthia Dewi Oka, and has taught in many settings including as Winton Chair of the Humanities at University of Minnesota, Evans Chair at Evergreen State University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Africana Studies at Barnard College. Alexis and her partner Sangodare have received many honors, including an Advocate 40 under 40 feature for their decade of work to create an intergenerational living library of Black LGBTQ brilliance called Mobile Homecoming and an Enlightenment Through Service Award from the Institute for Whole Life Healing. Alexis lives in Durham, North Carolina.
As we turn to February, we revisit Nilufar Danishw As we turn to February, we revisit Nilufar Danishwar's diary entry from this month last year, chronicling the period after the Taliban takeover. 

“Danish wanted to give up and go back to Kabul, but I said, let’s try one more time,” she writes.

You can read the full piece in #AdiIssue10: Afghan Women: A Polyphony via the link in bio!
Your #Friday poem or literary instruction by Bhanu Your #Friday poem or literary instruction by Bhanu Kapil from the #AdiArchvies.

You can’t survive here.

#AdiIssue3 #TerrorInSouthAsia #LinkInBio
Adi's Senior Editor, @jorilewis, in conversation w Adi's Senior Editor, @jorilewis, in conversation with former Editor-in-chief  @mearasharma on her book, Slaves for Peanuts. Their conversation traverses the potency of the peanut, the paradoxes of abolition, and depicting African history in all its drama. 

“Is being a free laborer enough, if you’re forced through your economic circumstances to indebt yourself, or live hand to mouth, or work as a sharecropper with no hope of getting out from under that yoke?” asks Jori.

Read the full interview via #AdiIssue11: Contested Histories. Link in bio!
Hawa Allan unpacks America’s existential crisis Hawa Allan unpacks America’s existential crisis through the lens of Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial by excavating the tensions in the creation myths of American citizenship. 

“US history does not move forward in a linear fashion but is instead relived in repeating cycles that each generation is prompted to break,” she writes.

Read Allan's full essay in #AdiIssue11: Contested Histories. Link in bio!
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