In celebration of the work that I’ve been doing, however, I wanted to give thanks for all the spaces I’ve occupied over the past few weeks, online and off. I have been blessed to be involved with so many passionate people and am honored to work alongside them.
I’ve finished at short serial mystery over at SpliceLit, a magazine run by the amazing Veda Kumarjiguda.
I was invited to speak on anti-violence at the Bangla Boi Mela, and presented an interactive workshop about types of violence and how they affect people structurally, interpersonally, and internally.
I have done a very personal StoryCorps interview with the brilliant Purvi Shah, facilitator of the Movement to Power workshop at SAWCC (audio to come!). We discussed the relationship between arts and activism, anti-violence work, and our own relationship as South Asian women to finding different healing modalities. I really enjoyed this talk because it consolidated a lot of things I care about into a brilliant 40 minutes!
I have spoken on zines, zine fests, and feminism for the BCRW podcast, to be released soon. As I say often, I sometimes forget that most of the zinester world is not women and trans people of color – and that a lot of feminism also doesn’t represent us either! I delved deep on this podcast into these ideas, with the wonderful Michelle Chen.
As[I]Am is in the process of growing our staff family and bringing on new content creators in the next several weeks, as well as doing a logo and site redesign (it’s looking so fancy, y’all – I can’t wait to share!).
I’m excited to say that the work I’ve been doing in the past few months has been exactly what I want to be doing. I’m learning a lot and moving with communities that I want to be a part of. But phew! I am so glad that I get a break for a couple weeks to sit and contemplate my next move. In the meantime, I’ll be sending everyone love and postcards from out west.