![]() Sadly my bookshelf had less than twenty percent of works of women. This was really bothering me and I just had to see how much women I was reading. One of our interventions is building temporary/semi-temporary reading spaces in different parts of the city and have people spend time with books and with each other.Īround six years back I realised that in these reading spaces people weren’t really picking up works of women, even when they’d ask for recommendations they were not happy if the books recommended was a work of a female author. I am a part of an artist collective called bombayunderground. ![]() We are based in Bandra West in Mumbai but we also travel to many many different places, last month we travelled to Auckland and Bangalore, this month we are travelling to Chennai. It is an evolving and generative artwork that engages in in-depth reflection on the visual and reading culture of our times. ![]() Sister is a library powered by female excellence. ![]() To find out more Emma Thatcher spoke with the founder Aqui Thami about the Library’s history and aims. Recently we heard news about Sister Library a new feminist library being set up in Mumbai, India. ![]()
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