Still Brazen Episode 4: “‘I Don’t Want to Be Pretty, But I Do Want to Be Brown’: Anurima Banerji and Jade Da Costa in Conversation about Constructing South Asian Femme-ness through Poetry”  

In this episode, Dr. Anurima Banerji and Dr. Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa revisit Banerji’s poems “Ephemera” and “Summer, Or I Want the Rage of Poets to Bleed Guns Speechless with Words” from Brazen Femme as well as a piece of Da Costa’s creative non-fiction titled “Motherland.” They discuss: South Asian femme identity, decolonial politics, and the possibility that poetry can bring it all together. 

Check out the transcript here: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-content/uploads/sites/255/2021/09/Still-Brazen-Podcast-Transcript-Episode-4.pdf

Links:

Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa: https://www.jadecrimson.com/

Anurima Banerji: https://www.wacd.ucla.edu/people/faculty/anurima-banerji

"Motherland" by Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa: https://relocationsutoronto.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/motherland/

Vivek Shraya: https://vivekshraya.com/

Nadiya Ali: https://www.nadiyaa.com/

Ali, N.N. (2018). Emancipation in an Islamophobic age:
Finding agency in ‘nonrecognition,’ ‘refusal,’ and ‘self-recognition. Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 5(1), pp. 1-26. https://jcri.ca/index.php/CRI/article/view/6567

Podcast Credits:

Created and produced by: Dr. Andi Schwartz

Recorded by: Dr. Andi Schwartz and Michael Fong

Edited by: Dr. Andi Schwartz, Rafia Naz, and Maykel Shehata

Music by: Dr. Andi Schwartz and Michael Fong

Supported by: The Centre for Feminist Research and the Media Creation Lab at York University

Sponsored by: The Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies (York); The Sexuality Studies Program (York); The School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (York); The Institute for Research in Digital Literacies (York); The Digital Scholarship Centre at the Scott Library (York); and the Joint Program in Communication and Cultural Studies (York & TMU)