This is the story of every unwanted girl-child, of every daughter a burden to her parents; of every bride shipped off to her in-laws. This is the story of your sole purpose being to get married off…
Hope has two daughters
Have You No Shame? © Sri Theyvi, 2025
You had to get your hands dirty to make Sri Lankan food—like fixing a car engine or cleaning out a gutter.
This is where Sentimental Value resists easy judgment. Gustav’s project may be selfish. It is belated. It causes harm. And yet it may also be the only language he has for repair.
I’d be content for a while
stepping around the bodies
Navigating Chaos
Desert sky © Kathryn Jordan
I’d taste a basal craving for that sharp, repelling scent.
Mutating Capitalism
Women meeting for seed conservation - Photo © Subhadra Khaperde
The works that follow reflect our personal journeys through heritage, healing, migration, identity and resistance.
Lost Spaces: Recovering Our Place
El ghorba © Sfiya
No one cared for what lay under that grey curse, for where a tiny bird dropped its egg...
Reconstructing Meaning
Even the birds in Gaza have wings but do not migrate - Photo Hla.bashbash, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A voice that is both rooted and roaming. A voice shaped by lineage, but entirely its own. [...] this work comes not only from solitary genius, but from shared strength.
