Nimmi Gowrinathan
@nimmideviarchy
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Professor/Writer/Activist Founder, Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative Publisher, Adi Magazine https://t.co/IpuiRT4HcE
New York, NY
Joined June 2014
RT @AdiMagazine: "Is the world willing to hear, or are we only speaking into an echo chamber of grief?". Read @AlaaQAlQaisi's devastating e….
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RT @AdiMagazine: Today in light of current events, we are highlighting an issue from Adi's backlist. Published in Summer 2020, Adi's 4th is….
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A year after the siege.
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RT @AdiMagazine: Friendly reminder that our submissions are still open for fiction! You've got until 5/4 to send us your alternative politi….
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RT @Duotrope: Adi Magazine @AdiMagazine (Fiction, G/O; pays) opened to fiction submissions. #amwriting
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RT @LAReviewofBooks: "Glass is not suited for war. Zionism is incompatible with life." @maryturfah writes on Lebanon and broken glass in an….
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Mary Turfah writes on Lebanon and broken glass in an online release from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
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RT @meenakandasamy: Doing an event on the Thirukkural (Book of Desire) at Columbia Uni today evening. Venue: Room 208 Knox Hall. ⏲️ 6.15pm.….
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I will be reflecting on Yoko Ono's body of work through my new text "Occupation and the Body" on February 15th @ParkAveArmory for those in NYC.
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RT @Samantharhill: "Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talke….
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RT @AJEnglish: "Sri Lanka’s nation-building project is fundamentally rooted in giving primacy to Sinhala Buddhism. Tamils were never accept….
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The nationwide electoral success of the anti-establishment NPP does not mean Tamil nationalism is on the decline.
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A friend recommended Radius: The Story of a Feminist Revolution by @yasminelrifae. Our conversation here on militant feminism, reverberations across struggles, and visualizing geometries of oppression and safety for women inside revolutionary movements.
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In 2011, Egypt’s Tahrir Square became center stage for a revolution that swept away the thirty-year presidency of Hosni Mubarak. It was a moment when besieged bodies and chants against corruption and...
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Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili. “Haiti is a massive elephant. You cannot touch the whole elephant.” he says, “You can only touch a part of it. But it is going to take all of our hands to move it forward.”.
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Defending Haiti feels like defending a beloved family member that I have never met directly, but who I have known of my whole life – through family stories and the gifts shared in the mail. I love...
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Marie Vibbert. "The hard hemisphere of gut appeared a few years ago, as permanent as a stone. I’m annoyed.".
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I’m leaning over the kitchen sink, eating handfuls of cereal from the box when the ad plays. “Eating is a disorder,” a confident woman states, sounding simultaneously pained and overjoyed, like she...
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Achiro P. Olwach. "Each day, I am haunted by the possibility that Auntie C will pass away while I remain in exile, unable to lay her to rest, unable to honor her life in the ways my culture demands. The thought torments me. It’s an exile within exile.".
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When I was a child, my dad bought me and my brothers matching T-shirts in different colors. Each one read Born to Win. Mine was red, and I tell you, I loved that T-shirt fiercely. It wasn’t just a...
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Jess Masi. "You wonder if one body will become a crowded home, that one day your brother might hunger for more and you will have nothing more to give him. All you will have is your grief, frozen in time.".
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The ghosts have learned how to whistle. You can hear their lips pressed into the cracks of the floorboards. The sound reminds you of when you would pin a blade of grass between your baby thumbs and...
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Ruxandra Guidi. "I can’t blame the revolution for pushing us apart. But I can blame it for making it impossible for me to return to my own country to be with my father and hold his hand as he died, even if it meant doing so in silence.".
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La patria. In Spanish, the motherland is really a father figure. The word comes from the Latin pater, or father, which is the root of patriot, as well. Like your father, la patria is deserving of...
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Sarah Lubala. "My anxious attachment to the Congo is a pattern of emotional responses rooted in time; my temporality has been maimed.".
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mymotherwasmy first country.the first place I ever lived.— Nayyirah Waheed I’m in the parking lot of the Oxford Midwifery Unit, a clinic in Johannesburg, scrolling through my phone when the world...
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As many folks are (for the first time) thinking about despots and departure,. @AdiMagazine has a new issue out "Into The Blank" on exile and the diasporic lives haunted by leaving home. With stunning art work by Kaya Joan.
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For Adi’s 20th issue, we are exploring experiences of exile and diaspora–of departures from situations that have been made intolerable by political extremes and societal constraints. In the midst of...
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RT @uthayashalin: Today, the Adayalam Centre for Policy Research launched the book Stories of Mullivaikkal in Colombo, shedding light on th….
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RT @De_Coloniality: Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there’s no such thing as a politicall….
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