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Poetry, fiction, and essays at the intersection of body, gender, and queerness — writing that holds the lived experience of embodiment with care.

Gender, Queer & Embodied Lives

Usawa Editorial Team
July 25, 2026

Finally, we moved close to Delhi after several years. There had been periodic visits to meet......

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Usawa Editorial Team
July 25, 2026

It’s always the acridly sweet smell of shit and matted dust crossing into Hauz Khas village.......

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Usawa Editorial Team
July 25, 2026

*some names have been changed to protect privacy When I first realized that something was wrong,......

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Anasuya Basu
July 22, 2026

It’s hard to come back to reality after finishing The Girl in White Cotton. It lingers......

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Chidimma Ewelukwa
July 22, 2026

Chinwe once joked with Adaobi that in their country, the easiest way for a woman to......

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Anannya Nath
July 22, 2026

Menoka covers her nose with the open end of her sador as she sponges the dirt......

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Rahul Singh
July 22, 2026

The only thing from her previous life Mrs Coutinho is unwilling to quit is the habit......

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Madhuri Kankipati
June 27, 2026

An Enhanced Version of Yourself A woman uploads her photograph into an Instagram filter that promises......

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Sujata Noronha
June 23, 2026

We are a group of library educators and library facilitators at Bookworm, a library-based organisation in......

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Jatin Lalit
June 22, 2026

Sitting on a bench in the library, I noticed a group of children, no older than......

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Kareena Mehta
May 31, 2026

To the One Who Had to Grieve the Parent They Never Really Had You call them......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

The war has ended,                         ......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

A pillar, monk-grey, still standing,while the slumbering flesh of stone collapsesinto the slow erasure of desire.Hannah......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

Every day, the windows fill with lavender light—I bite my lips, then rinse my face, brush......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

I am waiting for her at the edge of my body—I look here, I look there—endless......

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Athira Unni
May 28, 2026

po-yum  the whistle blows and the po-yum immediately writes itself in Malayalam slangs of old. I’ve located such blankness......

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