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A Manual for Assembling a Family by Harish Subramanian
Photo: Matthew Finley
This essay was published in Queer Unfiltered, Usawa’s Trans and Queer Issue from October 2026.
Part I: Prerequisites
Family
noun
Plural: families
- A group of people who are related to each other.
2....
Queer Unfiltered: Emotions, Moments & Journeys
An Impossibly Normal Life by Matthew Finley
Dear Readers,
Art is never neutral, especially when human dignity is on the line. The special Trans and Queer Matchbox issue from Usawa Literary Review, Queer Unfiltered, was born from a moment...
Matchbox by Usawa September’26
Great Hall of The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Dear readers,
Welcome to the September 2026 issue of Matchbox by Usawa!
The new issue is now live on the Usawa Literary Review’s website. We begin by exploring postmodern element...
Making Space for Stories: Aparna Roy in Conversation with Vinti Rajani
Women reading art by David Hettinger
Dear readers,
In what ways can reading on a daily basis elevate our understanding of human relationships and our larger relationship with the world? Vinti Rajani, our Outreach and Community Coordinator...
City of Shopkeepers: Mumbai’s Original Gig Workers by Gopal MS
Dear Readers,
A relentless hum of a thousand daily transactions over jasmine garlands, sacks of marigold, and the distant horn of local trains. This is the beating heart of Dadar’s flower market. More than just street vendors, these marke...
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The Usawa Literary Review is a bi-annual English language literary magazine dedicated to feminist literature and writings by and about underrepresented communities.
I read a lot. I write about books, AI, and at the intersection of both.
A weekly edition of all things poetry, coffee, and abstract thoughts.
The Omnivore Scientist
Writer-type ~ Amateur Naturalist ~ Prefer coffee, chocolate & humour to be dark ~ Madras, Bombay, Melbourne, Bangalore
Farah Ahamed is the editor of Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia, Pan Macmillan. Her short fiction has been published in White Review, Markaz Review, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, LA Review of Books and other journals.
Reader, Editor. Publisher, Writing-Mentor, Uni Professor.
Poet-translator -speculative fiction writer - editor and poetry curator. 14 books across the 4 verticals. www.priyasarukkaichabria.com
The Napping Bard with a gypsy soul. Hammartia: Not the typical conformist wife. Often found disenchanted with the human experience.
Speculative writer from East Africa. Mythmaker of gothic, metaphysical, and cosmic tales. I write stories where time bends, memory lingers, and the unseen breathes—where the ordinary fractures and something older looks back.
A girl with a never-ending TBR
Anasuya is an independent writer based in Kolkata
MIT via Oxford, Yale, Bombay | Political-Economics, Poetics & (occasional) Polemics
Micaela Kaibni Raen is a queer Palestinian American artist. She is the creator of Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian embroidery.
Writing stuff? PhD-ing in Law. Also, go check out The Hooghly Review!
They/He. Reading, writing, and editing through the apocalypse. Managing Editor for Poetry @ The Bombay Literary Magazine.
Writer, Poet, Doctor
Manya Suri is a postgraduate student at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is interested in popular culture, media studies, film studies, institutions
Dr. Tarana Husain Khan is a bestselling Indian author and cultural historian. Latest book: The Courtesan, Her Lover and I.
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