Between Visibility and Precarity: Reading Audre Lorde’s ‘The Cancer Journals’

By Paromita Patranobish
In her assessment, cancer is a site of precarity at once individual and collective, the sources of which are at once epidemiological and environmental, raising an ethical demand in the light of which intersectional struggles and solidarities might be sought.

On the Impossibility of a Room of One’s Own: Rethinking Virginia Woolf’s Spatial Politics

By Paromita Patranobish
The desired room in ‘A Room’ is then not just a reference to conditions of isolation and solitude required for creative work; it is more importantly a meditation on the politics of inhabitation, coexistence, and collective occupation of human geographies as concerns at the heart of feminist epistemology.