Q (they/them) pursues their doctoral research on care as peacebuilding at the University of St Andrews. They write to locate themselves within an ecology and society of caregivers. They co-founded Maya – the Gender and Sexuality Magazine, and have served on the advisory and editorial boards of multiple human rights organizations and publications. They have previously published works in Fortune India, the Deccan Herald, Paigam-e-Awaaz, DailyO, The Oxford Queer Studies Blog, the Indian Express, and The Citizen. You can find them on Twitter: @q_ueering and Instagram: @q.ueering.
Reading Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree in the Lade Braes, Scotland. ‘The poetry of trees is, after all, about agency—the act of breaking, rending, repairing, citing through metaphor. But what agency do trees hold?’