In today’s episode, Anushray Singh (he/him), Editor, Juice is in conversation with Kami Ahsan (he/him). Kamil is an environmental historian and doctoral student at Yale, with a prior doctorate in biology from the University of Chicago. He is an interdisciplinary scholar, writer, critic, and chief editor of the South Asian Avant-Garde anthology. His work has appeared in The Nation, NPR, LA Reviews of Books, The Baffler, and Dissent, among others.

He is also the Editor of  South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG): A Dissident Literary Anthology South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG) is a literary anthology that features intimate incendiary fiction, essays, journalism, plays, poetry, and hybrid, multimedia work. It reclaims dissident and collaborative traditions excised from South Asian histories, and forges new radical communities.

Transgression, experimentation, and true radicalism are rare and expensive in a world structured around majoritarian consensus, conformity, and party-line loyalism. This is especially true for minority voices, who are routinely devalued. SAAG commits to valuing creative labor to amplify South Asian voices that are imagining and building better and freer futures for us all.

Follow SAAG at Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube @saaganthology, visit their website to know more at https://saaganthology.com/ and support them by donating at aaww.org/saag 

You can follow Kamil on Instagram and Twitter @kamuleosaurus