They Come For the Old Women By Thadra Sheridan When the neighbor came for my aunt she was alone as was more often than not; husband long dead, grandchildren scattered to bigger towns, daughter in a home of her own. This place haunted with echoes, the piano at family gatherings her fingers now too…
Author: Vinita Agrawal
Poet
Sakhi Awards Second Prize
Bowls After Shanta By Lisa Zou Ten times over— she says, if you say marriage enough times, it sounds like cage. In Nepal, Shanta scrawls numbers in italics and paints scenery you might find on the oldest of cave walls. Every other woman cannot read the books Westerners come in droves with. There are too…
Sakhi Awards First Prize
Winner of the first prize in the Sakhi Awards 2018. Green Thumb By Matilda Berke When you wake on the mornings when coffee is not enough to stir the ashes in your stomach, brew a misty carafe & take the grounds out to the garden. Every seed is welcome here, each layer of leaf…
Sakhi Awards Winners
Wishing all our readers a Happy Women ‘s Day! After months and days of reading, sifting and shuffling through the 150 odd submissions that we received for the Sakhi Awards this year, we are now ready to announce our three winners and two special mentions. The decision has by no means been easy….
#MeToo
Photo Credit: Vinita Agrawal The recent #MeToo campaign has been unprecedented in the history of feminism. It garnered the participation of women across age groups, across nationalities, race and economic status. Its impact on the social media was unprecedented. The campaign serves as the beacon light for gender exploitation to move from from the…
Women ‘s March – 2
Photo Credit: Reuters Thousands of women took to the streets in USA to protest against Donald Trump, the president of the United States, as he completed one year in office. Additionally, a huge number of people picked up the baton from the United States and rallied in solidarity with women raising their voice against…
Two Poems By Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi
On Diversity Whether we are here by birth, choice, circumstance, happenstance, contract, force, or freak of nature, we are all an intricate part of this complex tapestry that defines the diversity to which we ascribe our unity. It is only through our uniqueness when brought together in commonality that diversity can be celebrated as a…
When The Body Is Female
Inspired by a sculpture of a bare-breasted female of the Renaissance period (17th-18th century), at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. (I) The body. Holding on to shards, Since the moment of inception. The body, trying to learn and unlearn Swimming in the tidal pool Of the amniotic fluid Not knowing yet, the…
SAKHI AWARDS Last few days to submit!
Submissions will only be accepted in soft copy sent through email. Send just one poem, either as PDF or .doc or .docx attachment or directly in the body of the email. 2. Email Submissions to submitthewomaninc@gmail.com Your work must not have been published before in any online or print journal. We accept only one entry…
Durga: Where Art Thou
Invoking the MATRI SHAKTI Have you seen the tattered girl flopping down on the festering ruins looking frantically for lost crumbs of food? That, my dear, is my Durga, her trishul, her trident blown to ashes, mingling in her soiled, chipped off fingernails. Having you seen the blazing fire…
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