A living archive of resistance, memory, and collective worldmaking — where every contribution rewrites the record.
Launched in 2025-2026 as part of the Digital Storytelling and Global South Solidarities project supported by a New Faculty Seed Grant, the fellowship is a year-long program designed for South Asian scholars committed to decolonial, feminist, queer, and anticolonial knowledge production. The inaugural cohort brought together South Asian scholars from South Asian, from Washington State University, across the United States, and around the world—graduate students, early-career researchers, and community-engaged intellectuals whose work had long been marginalized within conventional academic structures.
The fellowship operates on a simple but radical premise: that the scholars most qualified to document and theorize Global South struggles are often the ones least supported by academic institutions. Fellows receive modest compensation for their contributions—an acknowledgment that intellectual labor, especially when it emerges from minoritized and diasporic communities, deserves material recognition. Over the course of the year, fellows develop multimodal, public-facing projects that will be housed on the open-access Global South Solidarities anarchive website. These projects take many forms: digital narratives, curated archival materials, pedagogical resources, multimedia essays, and creative works that refuse the boundaries between scholarship and art, between theory and practice.