Funded by the Conflict Transformation Grant (2023), this was a research project that started through an internship with Daakvaak exploring the digital community built around South Asian literature and how it creates meaningful parasocial relationships that preserve heritage while building community that moves inclusivity forward. It produced the “Dangerous Women Series” (see publications), but also resulted in a growing collection of writing from Urdu feminist writers and exploration of their work as it travelled, and a series of diary entries from readers and me on how the work makes us feel in today’s changing political landscape.

Digital, New York City, Delhi, Lucknow, Karachi

May 2023 - September 2023