Invoking Kali draws on the Sanskrit genre of sacred stotra literature. The goddess Kali, whose name means Black or Death symbolises the dread and darkness of Time that she commands.
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an award-winning translator, poet and writer. She studied the Sanskrit rasa theory of aesthetics and Tamil Sangam (2-4BCE) poetics. Her books include speculative fiction, literary non-fiction and three poetry collections, and her work has been included in multiple anthologies. Her recent publications include Clone (Zubaan, University of Chicago Press), which was selected as one of Best Reads of 2018 by The Feminist Press, and Calling Over Water Poems (Poetrywala, 2019). She edits the literary journal Poetry at Sangam. http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/ More about Priya’s work can be found out here: www.priyawriting.com
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey