In Urdu, there exists a phrase—nala-e-bebak: an audacious sorrow. 2007: When my grandmother died, she turned into a parrot. An obscure ritual was performed to determine what type of body she would be reborn in…
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Scherezade Siobhan is an award-winning writer, educator and psychologist. Her work and words have been featured in Medium, Scroll, Mint, Berfrois, Quint, Vice, HuffPost, Feministing, DIAGRAM, The London Magazine, Cordite Review among others. She is the author of “Bone Tongue” (Thought Catalog Books, 2015), “Father, Husband” (Salopress, 2016), “The Bluest Kali” ( Lithic Press, 2018). and “That Beautiful Elsewhere” (Harper Collins, 2023). She was the writer in residence at the University of Stirling & the winner of the Charles Wallace Grant, 2022-23.