Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx

Yaari centres friendship in the politics of everyday life and well-being.

Drawing on narratives of women and queer folx from South Asia, it reflects on friendship in all its avatars—as wondrous and full of excitement; as joyous and embedded in an ethics of care, as evoking jealousy, anger, and disappointment; and as strained and fractured. Just as friendship itself resists definition, the pieces in this collection come in various shapes and forms: comic strips and poems, essays and fiction, as paeans, reflections and rants.

These ninety-five contributions examine the world not only through the lens of what is but what we might aspire to.