Hello everyone and welcome to A Wild Archive community publication!
I’m so excited that you’re here (or still here for those who’ve travelled alongside me since 2015) – it’s been a privilege and pure love-in-action to be writing you these missives. I’m passionate about the power of words & our imaginations to heal, transform, liberate and joy-up our lives.
I’m a writer, mentor, interdisciplinary maker and facilitator from Northern England. I am a Brown woman, Brit(ish)-born with Punjabi ancestral roots. I’m an avid note-maker, a journal-keeper, an archivist of the everyday, a poet, an essay-maker, a ritual maker, a sacred space-holder, a trouble-maker, a swearer, an allotment-keeper and anti-racist researcher of liberatory writing arts. I love being outdoors and all things wild. I care deeply about Mother Earth.
Why A Wild Archive?
I’ve used the power of words and creativity to write myself back home from severe burn-out, grief, loss and racialised trauma and have transformed my life by doing so. This has deepened by being and writing with and in nature. I explored a lot of this stuff in an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes – I live what I teach. This is my destiny and calling – to share what I have learnt, to archive these moments of my life – with women, especially those who have been othered. I love to witness and celebrate women discovering their wild & true voices.
As a working class, woman of colour I believe if we don’t tell our stories, who else will? We have to become grassroots archivists and re-write our histories.
100,000 THANK YOU’S for being YOU and being here with me on this journey. Our words are powerful and so are we.
In wild solidarity.