Sunita Crowley 68 Knit One, Pearl One S.D. Chatter jee 70 The Blanket ARTWORK & PROSE

Asha Krishna 71 Kolam – Reviving a Lost Connection

Lesa Ng 81 Catching Chickens with 姐婆 Barsa Ray 83 Apsara’s Song Sean Wai Keung 84 Telephone Congee Lesa Ng 85 ‘Here Is What I Know About

Cooking’ ser ies Teji Dhaliwal 87 Jalebi

Shasta Hanif Ali 88 Ghazal Unwell Sunita Crowley 89 Aloo in the Paratha Tweets Her Life

(In 180 Words More or Less) Niharika Jain 90 Dadi ’s Taw wah Bread

Sheyna Zaid Lam 98 Tamarind Sweets

Zara Masood 103 Aunty’s Paan Box

Elaine Chiew 105 Bento Box

Snehal Amembal 107 Making Mango Pickle

Shabnam Shabazi 109 ‘Black Gold ’

ARTWORK Zita Holbourne 116 Black Women in Nature: Coneflower Sunita Crowley 117 Hand Wrought Diamond Natalia Equihua in collaboration

and conversation with Lesa Ng 119 We Write Poems With Our Hands Amy Zamarripa Solis 127 Ropa

ARTWORK& PROSE Shasta Hanif Ali 130 Blue: a Zuihitsu Be Manzini 134 In Praise of the Hands That

Lift the Crown 135 Biographies 141 About Us

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