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Poems that witness, accuse, mourn, and resist. Work rooted in body autonomy, ecofeminism, desire, grief, exile, and decolonial reclamation - from Adivasi verse to Urdu ghazal to prison writing.
Poems that witness, accuse, mourn, and resist. Work rooted in body autonomy, ecofeminism, desire, grief, exile, and decolonial reclamation - from Adivasi verse to Urdu ghazal to prison writing.
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All is One Here and 2 other poems
Birth of Isa and 5 other poems
I Refused To Die and 2 other poems
Memory & Time
A curated collection
All is One Here and 2 other poems
Where being pours into another, patriarchy and contested borders divide unyielding hunger and grief: the nations cold heart beats near...
I Refused To Die and 2 other poems
A defiant spirit kindles resilience, challenging dogmas chains from the margins, lifting loves torch toward a bright, bewildering dawn.
Coercion
This poem starkly portrays coercion's bitter grip, devouring girls' dreams, a vast, unacknowledged, relentless nightmare
With Many Hopes and 6 other poems
From ravaged soil, a fierce promise to resurrect the homelands dreams, challenging brutal patriarchal structures, navigating profound grief and defiant,...
Sophocles and My Dadu and 2 other poems
Fierce Agency blossoms, reclaiming silenced memory and profound grief from systemic erasure, cradled within Homes tender heart.
The Story in My Palms
These delicate hands mirror a woman's inner journey, revealing a path of self-discovery and care
I Sleep with Silence
From chained dreams, a daughters silent scream asserts fierce agency, navigating profound grief to breathe resilience into a wounded lands...
Invincible
An Afghan woman's invincible spirit bravely bears war's scars and history's pain, still dreams freedom
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The Night, a Naked Knife and 4 other poems
Visceral verses explore the fractured Self as a contested site of lived memory, navigating profound grief while reclaiming voice against...
jothi 7907 i see and 3 other poems
A visceral collection exploring the complex echoes of enduring historical trauma, navigating deep currents of profound resilience within the human...
My Lover’s Muse and 5 other poems
Phantom love haunts a fractured self, navigating ancestral memory and forced silence. A displaced heart yearns for lost home, speaking...
Clytemnestra Descending and 3 other poems
This luminous verse explores the human spirit's resilience amidst an urban decay, grappling with profound longing while envisioning a future's...
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The Night, a Naked Knife and 4 other poems
Visceral verses explore the fractured Self as a contested site of lived memory, navigating profound grief while reclaiming voice against...
Of Novels, Old and New & 3 Other Poems
A luminous exploration of the disrupted landscape of belonging, navigating deep currents of loss and resilience, reclaiming vital narratives from...
jothi 7907 i see and 3 other poems
A visceral collection exploring the complex echoes of enduring historical trauma, navigating deep currents of profound resilience within the human...
Clytemnestra Descending and 3 other poems
This luminous verse explores the human spirit's resilience amidst an urban decay, grappling with profound longing while envisioning a future's...
