Academic writing

Peer-reviewed journal articles
“Archives in Drag: Performing Nachaniya Toward a Queer Theory of Indenture.” Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, vol. 2, no. 1 (June 2022)

“The Radical Limits of Decolonizing Feminism.” Feminist Review, Special issue on Coloniality (July 2021)

“Coconut/Cane & Cutlass: Queer Visuality in the Indo-Caribbean Lesbian Archive.” Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, special issue on Indian Caribbean Visual & Performing Arts, vol. 4, no. 2 (December 2020)

“Queering Chutney: Disrupting Heteronormative Paradigms to Indo-Caribbean Epistemology.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 1 (2018)

Academic Keywords
Coolitude. Emory Scholar Blogs, Postcolonial Studies (2020)

Public writing

The Margins

Camera Obscura: Greetings From Jamaica (March 2021)

Scroll.in
In new exhibition, Trinidadian-born Renluka Maharaj reimagines Indian indentureship in technicolor (November 2020)

Stabroek news
Jahajee Sisters: Activism for Indo-Caribbean Feminist Futures (October 2020)

The Huffington Post
The Value of an Indo-Caribbean Woman's Life (December 2016)
Remembering Coral Gardens: Rastas Wanted Dead or Alive (April 2015)
The Two Americas of Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) (January 2014)
A Woman Among Warlords: An Interview With Malalai Joya (October 2013)

Slate Magazine
It’s Time to Stop Calling Jamaica the Most Homophobic Country (May 2016)

The Aerogram
Washington Post Discovers Indo-Caribbean People Exist (October 2014)

Poetry

“At a Karaoke Bar on 101st Avenue in Richmond Hill,” “In a Corner of Hindu Town” & “From Calcutta to the Bronx: Chutney as Transporting” in I Will Not Go: Translations, Transformations & Chutney Fractals edited by Rajiv Mohabir (Kaya Press 2024)

“At the Coolie Depot” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“Kingston Ghazal” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“Dead Yard Haiku” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“SPQR in the South Bronx” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“Coronation Market” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“After the Arawaks, 1518” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“Otie-eatie” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“Suggestions from the British National Archives of Kew” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“Kingston at Five O’Clock” in the series, “Ancestral Coda,” awarded the Small Axe Literary Prize (second place) in poetry (2018)

“Elegy: 1838” a series of haikus on Indian indentureship, featured by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (2014)

“untitled: revised” in X Does Not Mark My Spot: Voices from the South Asian Diaspora, edited by Roksana Badruddoja. Zubaan (2014)

“unsung ballad” + “Inspired by Taslima Nasrin’s ‘Happy Marriage’” in Bolo Bahen! Speak, Sister! A chapbook produced after the Arts & Empowerment series co-led by Jahajee Sisters and Sakhi for South Asian Women (2009)