Ticket - Writing Domesticity - 3rd May - 6:00 PM
About the Event
This workshop explores the relation between home and queerness. Participants will learn various methods and practices in writing about domesticity, and engage with the meaning of domesticity in the context of the pandemic, violence, and unrest.
From academic methodologies like thick description to poetic forms and stylistic choices deployed by Dalit writers from Bombay, we will organise around how domesticity is understood and written. Part of the workshop is close-reading of excerpts from various genres and art forms, and exercises in how to write.
This workshop is ideal for folks interested in creative writing. We will read and refer to the works of Baburao Bagul’s politics of form and style, Babytai Kamble’s graded inequality, Bama’s account of the quotidian, Jane Hirshfield’s Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, and Fernanda Melchor’s Relatos, and more.
About the Artist
Shripad Sinnakaar is an anti-caste poet and independent researcher based in Dharavi, Mumbai.. He writes on dispossession of caste, social justice, slum-redevelopment, and Flamingoes of Mumbai.
His poems have appeared in The White Review, Indian Literature, Wasafiri, Mumbai Urban Art Festival, and Nica Art Colony. He holds a postgraduate in Philosophy from University of Mumbai
