The Gift
Illustrated poster design.
While taking care of her elderly employer, Rosa, a caregiver in Los Angeles, awaits news on her ailing mother back home in the Philippines and hopes to send her a gift that will fill Rosa’s absence.
HBO Max APA Visionaries winner
Closing Dynasty
Winner of the Crystal Bear for best Short, Berlinale
Illustrated poster design.
Closing dynasty is a film about a seven year old hustling strangers for money on the streets of New York City. Made in partnership with Netflix, Gold House, and Tribeca Studios as part of the Future Gold Film Fellowship.
31 Fantastic Adventures in Science
Illustrated cover and portraits of 31 scientists.
This unique book presents the stories of thirty-one of these trailblazing women who work in a diverse array of fields, from environmental biotechnology to particle physics, palaeobiology to astrophysics. Through their research, they uncover the mysteries of the universe, find more sustainable ways of living, cure life-threatening diseases and study animals and plants that are long gone.
Women Scientists in India
Penguin Books
And they lived…
ever after
HarperCollins
Book Cover Illustration and Design
Meet a deaf Snow White, a wheelchair-using Rapunzel, a neurodivergent Ugly Duckling.
In a world where fairy tales usually demonise characters who live with disability, these and other fairy-tale characters challenge our understanding of the people around us. The authors of this collection seek to retell classic stories by weaving in their own everyday experiences-the struggles, joys and frustrations that may not be known to the non-disabled.
And They Lived … Ever After grew out of a programme organised by Rising Flame, an award-winning non-profit that seeks to build an inclusive world in which diverse bodies, minds and voices thrive with dignity and live free of discrimination, abuse and violence. This book is every bit as enchanting as it is important.
Order your copy from here and from bookstores near you.
No Straight Thing was Ever Made
Penguin Random House
Book Cover Illustration
As a person with mood disorders that sprung up in her late teens, Urvashi Bahuguna had to navigate being the first person in her Indian family to admit to and seek help for a mental illness. The changes and challenges which came with this admission and the actions that followed not only impacted who she became as a person but also everything around her—from her interpersonal relationships, both familial and romantic, to the way she walked among her friends and peers and the manner in which she connected with art, literature, popular culture—they all became new and unknown.
Through these deeply honest essays that move between personal narratives, anecdotes from conversations, and research-driven storytelling, Bahuguna traverses the opportunities and roadblocks that come her way with the tools she has available to her. From a writer of astonishing talents, No Straight ThingWas Ever Made bravely discusses the many facets of living with mental illness.
Changing the Subject
Duke University Press
Book Cover Illustration
In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India’s liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for social development and NGOs signaled the co-optation and depoliticization of struggles for women’s rights, even as they amplified the visibility and vitalization of queer activism. Roy reveals the specificity of activist and NGO work around issues of gender and sexuality through a decade-long ethnography of two West Bengal organizations, one working on lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and the other on rural women’s empowerment.
Towards Transformative Healthcare
Asia Pacific Trans Health and Rights Module
Illustrations for Publication
APTN’s Towards Transformative Healthcare: Asia Pacific Trans Health and Rights Module is an introductory resource on trans competent and gender-affirming healthcare for medical professionals and other healthcare workers in Asia and the Pacific, particularly those in primary care including community-based health services.
Through a self-paced and interactive course, the Toward Transformative Healthcare Module (TTHM) will increase healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitudes, and skills on providing trans clinical and culturally competent care. There are 12 topics, covering everything from gender diversity across the region, to tips on how to create an affirming and welcoming environment for trans patients, to specific healthcare considerations for trans individuals related to mental health, sexual and reproductive health, gender-affirming care, and more.
Stories In/Around the Machine
University of Oxford
Illustrations for Publication
Stories In/Around the Machine is a project that explores the stories of how AI/ML systems have become entangled in the rhythms of informal work in Asia.
By engaging a wide network of workers, unions, researchers, and artists in the region, we aim to tease out tales of troubles, tinkering, and trickeries of living with AI/ML systems.
In many parts of Asia, the vast majority of workers earn their livelihoods through a variety of nonstandard jobs. For example, the informal sector accounts for over 60% of the Indonesian workforce and over 90% of the Indian workforce. The stories of working lives here, in the majority world, paint a very different picture from the stories we commonly hear in the global north, which dominate much discourse today. Through storytelling and visualisations, this project seeks to illustrate the rich and lively stories in the informal economy in/around/with/against/after/before/above/beneath machines—from domestic workers operating behind online storefronts, to anecdotes of algorithmic resistance from street vendors.
The Alphabet Project
Zubaan
Illustration, Letters F, Q, Y
In India, and indeed South Asia there is a huge distance that continues to separate incidents of sexual violence from access to justice for the survivor/victims. It’s critical that we have a loud conversation on the impunity that shields the perpetrators of this violence from facing consequences — often perpetrators are protected by virtue of the office they hold such as in cases of army, State or Panchayat sanctioned violence. Other times ‘small everyday violences’ in caste-society build up to larger massacres such as in case of Khairlanji.
Zubaan’s Sexual Violence and Impunity (SVI) Project commissioned 55 research papers on recent histories of sexual violence in South Asia resulting in our SVI series of books. To take these findings into public discussion and advocacy, two projects — Body of Evidence and Stepping Stones — transform them into theatre and slam-poetry through script-workshops and performances at universities, law and medical colleges across India and Nepal. You can read more about the SVI Project here.
Crear | Résister | Transform
A festival for feminist movements!
AWID
Illustrated Portraits
Do you want to be inspired by the creative resistance strategies of feminists from all over the world? Do you want to discover feminist initiatives that show us how we can all live in a more just world? Do you want to learn about models of feminist care and healing to bring to your own community? Join Conversations such as:
“She is on her way”: Alternatives, feminisms and another world
Join feminist activists as they share their experiences of “daring to invent the future”. Learn about alternatives to the state and a feminist take on governance and transformative justice, feminist economies that center people and climate justice, and on gender-diverse cultures and lived realities.
“The revolution will be feminist—or it won’t be a revolution,”
Feminists and gender diverse activists from across the world will tell you the story of how they have won reproductive rights, resisted corporate power, and toppled authoritarian regimes. This session centers feminist decolonial and racial justice struggles, feminist cross-border solidarity and internationalism.
Suno India
Podcast Art
Illustrations
Suno India is a multilingual- multi-generational podcast platform solely dedicated to audio-stories on issues that matter. Suno India shines a spotlight on under-represented and under-reported stories using audio as a medium. We set our own agenda and we are editorially independent. The podcasts on Suno India are well-researched yet personal. Our stories are steered by hard facts from the ground up. We also believe that there is an urgent need to give a platform to issues that are often sidelined as inconvenient, irrelevant, or are simply invisible; that’s what sets us apart from others.
Vaccine Justice: How can feminists collectively organise to hold States accountable?
AWID
Illustrations
A teach-in & a strategy session, to explore the many ways transnational corporations, philanthrocapitalism and the vaccine nationalism of Northern States are interfering with public decision-making to prioritise corporate interests over public interests in our world today - and how feminists take collective action for health, rights, and justice.
