அவ்ரீனா பிரபலா-ஜாஸ்லின் / avrina prabala-joslin / Dandelion Eghosa

queer and flowing, queer and burning, queer in writing. poets dandelion eghosa and avrina prabala-joslin come together in this kitchen session to let the audience into their world of words, spirits, transitions, siblinghood and love. what makes, breaks and liberates these queer poets in exile? what faces do they wear and dream?

அவ்ரீனா பிரபலா-ஜாஸ்லின் / avrina prabala-joslin

அவ்ரீனா பிரபலா-ஜாஸ்லின் / avrina prabala-joslin (1992, Tamil Nadu) writes fiction and poetry on places, beings and times. Obsessed with memories that pervade and evade, often of childhood, avrina’s writing is an ebb and flow characteristic of her desire for the sea. avrina’s tamil being, frustrated with the english of avrina’s mouth, now writes on his own as Chella Thambi. His words though are still in avrina’s, as he is too. In addition to winning the Short Fiction / University of Essex International Short Story Prize 2021 judged by writer Irenosen Okojie, avrina’s works have been shortlisted for the Indiana Review Fiction Prize 2021, Radical Art Review Contest 2021, the Berlin Writing Prize 2019 and longlisted for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2021. avrina has read works at/for the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, Literaturhaus Berlin, the poesie festival Berlin, Performing Arts Festival Berlin, English Theatre Berlin, Lovecrumbs Edinburgh, Present Literary Journal UK, etc.

Dandelion Eghosa

Dandelion Eghosa is a non-binary and queer visual artist whose work explores home, the identities of Afro-lgbtq+ people and human expressions in everyday life. Through diverse visual mediums and storytelling,their work offers a fresh interpretation of queer imagery. In the last two years their practice has evolved into a yearning to explore the role of performance in African queer archival practices.