One Future Post: Volume 5
This volume explores the role of poetry for making one feel wholly and for evoking powerful emotions. Deriving strength from poetry to participate in this dreary world makes it a form of resistance.
Curator Speaks
In our everyday exhaustion of dealing with social injustices in the world, we yearn for recuperative rest. Poetry as a subversive art, as an accommodating art, as a medium of engaging in solidarity and comradeship with the world, could offer to become the center of contemporary survival. Poetry as a medium can serve many purposes, especially in how we relate to each other and in social justice. This theme delves into the transformative power of poetry, transcending yet rooting the mundane, while weaving a narrative where written, observed, and felt language uses a rhythmic flair to house difficult emotions incited by the everyday, thus exploring restoration in both - the loud stillness and the silent screams witnessed in feeling, in observing.Â
The incredible Jerin Anne Jacob has curated this volume of One Future Post. Jerin is a poet-educator in Language and Literature who sees and makes sense of the world through poetry and considers herself to be a story collector. She is a doctoral research scholar working with retellings of contemporary biblical narratives in India. A firm believer of writing and art driven activism, she works with education as a medium for social change. You can read more of her work here. Â
Art Recos
Here is a specially curated set of art recommendations. Click on the image to know more.
DIY activity
Click on the image to access a site that lets you make both creative and calming fridge poetry. This works as just the perfect nudge for you to get your poetic juices running, especially after a creative block.
Keep up with updates and highlights of our work since the last volume of One Future Post! All eyes here please!
Support survivors’ access to healing and livelihood opportunities fundraiser: We are running a fundraiser for women and queer survivors of abuse so that they have a pathway to lifelong financial independence through our healing and livelihood program. We have raised over 4 lakhs in the last 15 days and we hope that you will support us. Every donation counts :) You can help us win matching donations from ATE Chandra Foundation and Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies. Do your bit today!
How to Share the World poetry book: We are thrilled to share that ‘How to Share the World’, our feminist poetry anthology has sold over 100 copies and we are so grateful for your support! You can now place your order through Amazon and Swiggy Minis to get your hands on this book. Makes for the perfect gift for your loved ones this festive season.
Uncuff India: Six episodes of our limited episode podcast, Uncuff India, are now live on Spotify and Google Podcasts. Through this podcast, we aim to unpack state violence and its impact on the citizens of India. Listen to our latest episode on writing about state violence from religious margins with the effervescent Fatima Khan.
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This is an advisory helpline and hence does not provide any emergency support.One Future Festival: One Future Festival 2023-24 is a traveling roadshow where we are partnering with 100 institutions to facilitate customized workshops, community spaces and healing spaces. Let's partner together and nurture more radically kinder spaces, together. Exciting, no? Fill out this form or book a meeting directly to convey your interest and we will get right back to you!
Healing Liberation Spaces: We are running our Healing Liberation Spaces from October 2023 to March 2024. Under this project, we offer spaces to build community and foster radicalization and solidarity in the context of social justice. These spaces are designed with an affirmative, inclusive lens, keeping in mind important contemporary issues, and are facilitated by a mental health professional, a person with lived experience, or an expert in the field. You can find more about the project as well as the exciting monthly lineup here. If you’re already interested, go ahead and sign up directly.
Alumni Engagement Program: We launched our Alumni Engagement program last month and had the chance to virtually meet alumni of our programs from across the world! We have many exciting things planned for them which will be shared soon -- including a Community of Practice for PoSH practitioners, a dedicated newsletter and more!
PoSH Training of Trainers CBLP: We also recently concluded our Cohort Based Leadership Program for the Training of Trainers, Prevention of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace! Our cohort received training over 3 weekends on how to set up their PoSH practice, how to be trauma informed in their communication and how to facilitate for adult audiences, along with learning more about the law itself. If you're interested in signing up for a program like this, we will be opening registrations for the next one very soon! Keep an eye out on our social media.
Thank you for reading the fifth volume of One Future Post! We hope it made for a fulfilling read. We can’t wait to share newer volumes with you!
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