Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. Cover Art by Ishita Basu Mallik. THE BLUEST KALI is a series of linguistic exoricisms through the corridors of a brown woman's clinical depression, dissociations and displacements that extend from psychological to spiritual exiles. Bhanu Kapil says, "...This is a book composed in an intense present—the 'returning wave'—of trauma, ecstasy, displacement, radical healing and...love."
Author Bio
Scherezade Siobhan is an award-winning Indo-Roma writer, psychologist and community catalyst who founded and runs The Talking Compass—a therapeutic space dedicated to providing counseling services and decolonizing mental health care. She is the author of two previous books, Bone Tongue (Thought Catalog, 2015) and Father, Husband (Salopress, 2016). Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Medium, Berfrois, Feministing, DIAGRAM, Rattle, Jubilat, DATABLEED, Nat Brut, and Winter Tangerine, among others. She is the creator and curator of The Mira Project—a global dialogue against street harassment, gendered violence and in support of women's mental health. She has performed and lectured across the world; her poems and essays are taught at psychology and creative writing courses in various parts of the world.
Author City: MUMBAI IND