Sudeshna Rana

Films depicting Palestinian life under occupation have long served as potent tools for understanding the impact of the "Israeli" apartheid regime. Highlighting the humanity of ordinary individuals, they dismantle myths created by ruthless Zionist settler colonisers. Here are some you can watch: Farha (2021) Available on Netflix India (1h 32m) Director: Darin J. Salam Farha has always dreamt of going to school in the city, but when she is about to leave, all hell breaks loose.

Between the compulsory stationery hauls and bank holidays, August also celebrates South Asian Heritage Month and Women in Translation Month. South Asia, bordered yet boundaryless, has been churning out fiction for hundreds of years. If you were to visualise the vast array of literature from this year alone as a tower, you would cower under its shadow. To help you build a smaller pile for your bookshelf with some great 2023 releases from South Asian authors, here's a list: 1.

Intersectionality — Gloria Anzaldua — Books — White Supremacy — Anti-Racism — Culture — Chican@ Feminism — Chicano Movement — Queer Narratives — Lesbian — Chicana Writers — New Mestiza — Borderlands — Linguistic Terrrorism — Feminist Portraits — Disability — Chronic Illness — Immigration — Gender Binary — Disability Rights — Second Wave Feminism Anzaldua writes for the mixed-race, the migrant, and the marginalised—those overlooked and oppressed in the white-dominated, patriarchal and...