Ahona

Grad student at SALC, @UChicago | Part-time kidlit scholar, full-time dreamer | She/Her | Cofounder @ACLiSA_

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

I have 40 books to read for my comps and entirely too much on my plate, so naturally I spent the last three hours tinkering on this.

https://t.co/ZgdXXCWlDs

Send 350-500 word abstracts by Nov 20th. Excuse any haze caused by my jetlagged brain.

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

Write to me if material memories, objects and spaces of girlhood, sounds like your tea. Share widely so this reaches the folks who love the things I do, as much as I do.

#girlhood #materialculture #childrensliterature #commodityculture #objectsofchildhood #childhood

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

Final call for this Panel. Deadline Nov 11th. So excited!

This is a panel proposal for the annual childhood/children's literature conference at ChLA 2025. I'm looking for collaborators for this panel. Read CFP here
https://t.co/w4bactE7Ya
#girlhood #childrensliterature

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

Write to me if material memories, objects and spaces of girlhood, sounds like your tea. Share widely so this reaches the folks who love the things I do, as much as I do.

#girlhood #objects #commodityculture #objectsofchildhood #chla #panelproposal

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

I have 40 books to read for my comps and entirely too much on my plate, so naturally I spent the last three hours tinkering on this.

https://t.co/ZgdXXCWlDs

Send 350-500 word abstracts by Nov 20th. Excuse any haze caused by my jetlagged brain.

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

* Potential * panel proposal for the upcoming ChLA conference (2025) on Shortcuts and Tesseracts: Time and Space in Children's Literature, Culture and Media.

Panel topic: all things Girlhood and Material Culture. Read more at the link below.

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

@Taanya_K Wide Sargasso Sea, Green Gables series, Ink Trilogy (Inkheart and others), Pratham Pratishruti, Subarnalata, Bakulkatha (trilogy), Tales of Harem Girlhood, A girlhood in Kashmir, Women's Courtyard, memoirs by various authors (my fav: Woolf's A Sketch of the Past), Fun Home

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

@Taanya_K This whole thread! ♥️

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

@kkpatelnmh 😂

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

"What did you find in the archives today?"

: Some notes inside an old magazine!

[I walk through the archives like I walk through life: clueless; and end up finding some old cash!]

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

Such a fun day listening, learning, soaking in scholarship on children's lit + presenting on the material memories of childhood at the Looking Back, Looking Forward: ChLA at 50 conference in Madison, WI! 🌟
@chlatweets
#ChLA50 #ChildhoodMemories #childhood #girlhood #MadisonWI

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

@phudnik Congratulations Kartik! ✨🎉

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

@ResearchLife92 Hello, this sounds fascinating! Would love to read 🌷

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

Suggestions for seminal works from the field? @AcademicChatter @ASAchildstudies @BSAChildhood @SChildhoods @Childhoodsinin1 @CcnUob @journal_CES @GirlhoodStudies #autobiography #womensautobiography #girlhood #memorialchildhood #epistolarywritings #southasia

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

@meganthroy Thanks so much, Meghna!! <3

[Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia @ACLiSA_]

To watch @Sayantani16's conversation with @FangirlRika head to
https://t.co/14OJ9FK39n

[Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia @ACLiSA_]

We did a YA Writing Workshop!
On 17/11/22, we welcomed students from across West Bengal to this Workshop with the amazing @payaldhar & the fabulous @Sayantani16! The event was organised by American Center, Kolkata & ACLiSA & held at the American Center.
https://t.co/Y4BYbwzimN

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

Sketched a little something for this creepy tale of really strange happenings by @ChhutiTitas for our ongoing @ACLiSA_ Horror Series. Recommend reading at midnight for optimal goosebumps 👻

[Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia @ACLiSA_]

For the Kali Pujo post, @ChhutiTitas recalls a story she had heard of a time glitch in the matrix.

https://t.co/hwie9JIVKo

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

So excited to share the works of one of my favourite contemporary Bengali ghost illustrators, Manisha Naskar, who I had the unique opportunity to co-interview with Titas Bose (@ChhutiTitas )

[Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia @ACLiSA_]

'Tis Bhoot Choturdoshi today and do we have a treat!

Author and illustrator Manisha Naskar chats with @ChhutiTitas & @aahonaaa about illustrating our wonderful, terrifying, comforting, comical Bengali ghosts for children.

ভূত চতুর্দশী is an emotion.

https://t.co/qAaSfZYsLa

[Ahona @aahonaaa]

Made the mistake of reading this at midnight. Still shook!

@not_cleopatra at her brilliant best!

Kickstarting (@ChhutiTitas and my summer obsession) the @ACLiSA_ (Association for Children’s Literature in South Asia) horror series with this gem.

[Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia @ACLiSA_]

Thrilled to launch @ACLiSA_'s first series "Childhood Prets and Other Premonitions" with "Paanimura", a real life incident recounted by Kajori Patra, that gave us real chills during midnight editing sprees.

Prepare to be properly spooked!

https://t.co/a7cBidCjwW