I spend my time imagining worlds where we are not constantly responding to violence, and everything I do is in the hope that we get to live in that kind of world. Solidarity is my practice.
I am a writer-activist trained in participatory, feminist, narrative and ethnographic research methods. My doctoral research focused on understanding cooperation, identity formation, care, and kinship in sex workers’ activist networks at the intersections of caste, class, gender, sexuality and economy. For my fieldwork, I worked with the National Network of Sex Workers, India, activists and filmmakers to patch together a world of crisis, resilience, response and celebration built by sex workers in the network.
🌍Projects: I am involved with multiple open-access projects bridging anthropology and advocacy, most notably Almaarii (a visual anthropology of South Asian queer closets) and Trans/form (a project to understand anti-trans violence in India) among others.
I work with Mithra Trust in Chennai to facilitate mental health workshops where I use narrative therapy and anthropology to create queer support spaces. I enjoy facilitating workshops where I can experiment with creative pedagogy.
📕Education: PGDip. Narrative Practices, PhD Anthropology, MA Applied Sociology, B.Mass Media (Journalism)
⭐️Roles: I am currently a co-editor at Kohl Press, on the steering committee of Pedagogies for Social Justice, Fellow of the Centre for Applied Transgender Studies and a member of the EASA.
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