... queerness abroad is not necessarily inclusive of our culture, racial identity or gender expression. But hope is a resilient feeling...
Hope has two daughters
Have You No Shame? © Sri Theyvi, 2025
The piece you are about to read is by an economist who works inside, and often against, the inherited colonial systems of knowledge that the discipline carries.
Arendt’s banality of evil could turn into an asepsis of evil, where ethically debatable human reactions are replaced by AI systems whose procedural operations are designed to be incapable of guilt, moral hesitation, or reflective interruption.
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.
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…
You had to get your hands dirty to make Sri Lankan food—like fixing a car engine or cleaning out a gutter.
I’d be content for a while
stepping around the bodies
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.
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.
