T182.
Building the South Asian Avant-Garde
Thursday, March 24, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:10 pm
This panel explores the process of building a digital anthology of South Asian creative work from beginning to release, centered around the avant-garde. We address concept development, fundraising, community building, and outreach, particularly through a progressive lens. We discuss the creation process during a pandemic, navigating time zones, illnesses, and challenges in South Asia. We discuss how BIPOC creatives draw from their radical traditions to build new creative forms and futures.
Participants
Nur Ibrahim
Kamil Ahsan is currently a doctoral student in History at Yale University with a prior doctorate in Biology from the University of Chicago. Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, he is also a freelance journalist, critic, and the editor of South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG).
Abeer Y. Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. Her books include a monograph of travel photographs and poems (The Long Way Home, 2013), a book of linked stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers, 2015), and a memoir (Olive Witch, 2017).
Aditya Desai's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in B O D Y, the Rumpus, the Millions, the Margins, District Lit, the Kartika Review, the Aerogram, and others. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park. He currently teaches writing in Baltimore.
