Facing my fears is helping me find healing.
Category: Blog
Rendering Violence In Verse: The Realm Between Anthropology And Poetry
Violence seems now as a spiked coil, piercing through the fabric of a given space and time at different points.
Surinamese Voices in the Dutch Museum of Literature
The opportunity to dive into these archives was a reintroduction to these people and their writing – and sometimes, an introduction altogether.
Radical Gratitude: A Review of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass
Navigating her role as a botanist and educator, Kimmerer champions pursuing ‘heart-driven science’ in the rigid confines of academia.
Lost in the Archives: Ayahs in Scotland
The legacies of imperialism are always closer to home than we think.
To the Body, to the Earth
I can find the traces of these weeks in the way I have learned to hold myself, the way I am in my body.
Celebrating Ourselves: The First East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month
For all of us, it’s a time for collective recognition of our lives in the U.K. We’re here. We belong. We exist.
In Conversation with Briana Pegado
‘I have seen too much in the arts and creative industries in Scotland to keep it to myself.’
How to Write in a Year of Loss: A Personal Essay
The first loss is the world’s. The second is your own.
A Scots/Punjabi Sikh and the Writing Life
I was always the Sikh part from birth.
