Five Threads South Asia Chapter

Solidarity knows nothing of "damage control." This project reads solidarity through the lens of a creative involution — a non-heteronormative desire that does not cater to Oedipalized regimes of narcissism or despair. Through schizometric thinking, acts of writing and listening, the work designs a fabric of solidarity starting with the author and not at a distance — a creative aberration, a pungent rupture in the ethics of social justice.

A long-form embodied essay on menstruation, endometriosis, and the silences that surround women's pain. The work moves between clinical diagnosis and folk healing — invoking tribal goddesses (Manasa, Shitala, Olabibi, Basuli) as active presences within a living system of care. Through poetry, conversation with a midwife, and a refusal of medical-only frameworks, the project asks what it means to make women's suffering legible — to let the body speak in ways that are heard.

A digital storytelling project that explores the multifaceted histories and lived experiences of four Tamang clans in Nepal, foregrounding their historical erasure and systemic exploitation. Filmed across the ancestral lands of Sindhupalchowk, Kavre, Dhading, and Nuwakot, it centers the voices and oral narratives of community elders as primary sources of knowledge and resistance — affirming storytelling as a critical tool for cultural preservation, resistance, and self-representation.

An archive of how Nepal's national dailies and weeklies covered (and did not cover) the historic ‘Sino bahishkar’ — the Chamar Dalit community's 1999–2001 refusal to dispose of dead-animal carcasses, the caste-imposed labor of Siraha and Saptari. Through 41 collected press clippings and 45 archival images across Kantipur, Gorkhapatra, Nepal Samacharpatra, Himalaya Times, Blast, Naya Current, Drishti, Chhalfal, Prakash, Janmabhumi and The Kathmandu Post, the project documents the silence of Nepali media on a movement that re-defined Dalit resistance in South Asia.