My poem Maqluba found a home in this special resistance issue of Overtly Lit!!! Feel soooooooooooooooooooooo proud to be part of this artivism especially in this current climate!!! Love and solidarity 🙏🏽🤲🏽❤️✊🏽🥰
📢📢 NEW ISSUE ANNOUNCEMENT 📢📢
We are very proud to publish the fourth issue of Overtly Lit with a special theme of RESISTANCE.
We dedicate this issue to all those affected by the oppression and violence of colonialism.
Read it here: https://t.co/2iYV38X5xs
“We are rebellious women, who,
In the face of religious intimidation,
Will not succumb
Will not sell our souls
Will not bow our heads
Will not clasp our hands”
— Kishwar Naheed (Pakistani feminist poet, b. 1940)
Via DandiaAsad
پریتم ایسی پریت نہ کریو
جیسی پیڑ کھجور
دھوپ لگے تو سایہ نا ھی
بھوک لگے، پھل دُور
پریت کبیرا ایسی کریو
جیسی کرے کپاس
جیو تو تن کو ڈھانپے
مرن نہ چھوڑے ساتھ
پریت نہ کیجیئو پنچھی جیسی
جل سوکھے اُڑ جائے
پریت تو کیجیئو مچھلی جیسی
جل سوکھے مر جائے
- بھگت کبیر
#bhagatkabirji#love
And using Baba Farid's example I can't shake this thought now...no more time for being keynchiyaaaN...we need to be more sui dhaagey now...assi joRan waaleyaaN tooN hai... ahhhhhhhhhhhh hoooooooooooooooo...power to the people 🪡🪡🪡🧵🧵🧵❤️✊🏽🥰💪🏽
So went to the 11th Bhagat Singh Memorial Annual Seminar on 18 April 2026 in London organised by the Progressive Writers Association UK in cooperation with Student Federation of India UK and Indian Workers Association GB and I am still processing...
So much food for thought...
Bhagat Singh's thoughts are very much needed in our current global climate...even though he wrote things more than nearly 100 years ago...has anything reallyyyyyyy changed???!!!
And the use of identity politics is so complex and clever...why are we still falling for it?! 🤔🤔🤔
This event is always sold out, so if you have been thinking about booking your tickets, do so now! I can't wait to host it again.
https://t.co/sTXIAtXgS7