Issue 12, December'24

Gender and its Discontents

COVER ART : “HERE I AM” by Bakula Nayak

Editorial

Smita Sahay Editor-in-Chief

Poetry

Note to Readers by Poetry Editor, Babitha Marina Justin

Tiffin Carrier and Other Poems by Gopika Jadeja

Lamina and Other Poems by Hannah Linden

hillbrow’s song and Other Poems by Zama Madinana

the girls (after rilke’s ‘the boy’) and Other Poems by Laura Theis

Fiction

Kirti K Spinster – A One-Act Play by Ketaki Chowkhani

Catharsis – A Play by Rochelle Potkar

The Mothership by Pritika Rao

Amra by Sobia Ali

Pungphai by Linthoi Chanu

Nonfiction

Todos La Conocen by Heather Vaughan

My Red, My Blood by Ipsita Misra

Overlooked and Undermined: The Representation of Women’s Mental Health in Literature and Films by Ishita Bagchi

If only our blessings would save us first by Aruvi Ravana

Gears on the Fritz by Manisha Sahoo

Translations

Note to Readers by Translations Editor, Sonakshi Srivastava

Firefly by Shubham Negi translated by Shruti Sonal

Leellann’s Story by Manisha Kulshreshtha translated by Priyanka Sarkar

Christmas by Daniel Hurtado translated by Claudia Excaret Santos

Three Stories by Sureshkumara Indrajit translated by Subhashree Beeman

Book Reviews

Note to Readers by Book Review Editor, Ankush Banerjee

Fighting A Battle With No Enemies

The Girl That Can’t Get A Girlfriend

How would an alien see us?

The ‘Art’ of trans-embodiment

Interviews

Manu Dash talks about his Anthology The Big Book of Odia Literature and other things with Kabir Deb

Priyanka Dubey, Author of No Nation for Women in Conversation with Kabir Deb

Banajyotsna Lahiri, Writer & Activist on Umar Khalid’s Incarceration and More with Kabir Deb

Excerpts

Bewilderness by Devashish Makhija

For The Love Of Apricots by Madhulika Liddle

The big book of Indian Art by Bina Sarkar Ellias

Visual Narratives

Occupation By Kameswari Padmanabhan

Different Strokes: How Thailand and India Do Queerness by Lina Krishnan

Freedom as an Unwording’ – Capturing Unnameable Rebellions by Meherin Roshanara

Usawa in Swahili means equality. The Usawa Literary Review is a bi-annual English language literary magazine dedicated to feminist literature and writings by and about underrepresented communities.

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