jhani is a collaborator, counterdisciplinary maker, and editor
Jhani’s creative works are interested in precarity, queer ecology, interspecies friendships, diaspora and migration, spiritual activism, and fugue states.
Author of the California Book Award winning collection Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and a co-founding editor of the experimental arts project rivulet (now on hiatus), Jhani received their M.A. from SOAS, University of London. Their research orbits “dangerous” intimacies in colonial archives and “creative refusals” within, against, and in the formation of memory-keeping communities and institutions.
They have coordinated projects and facilitated programming with organizations such as QueerAsia, Q. M. Zhang | MemoryWorks, May We Gather, Ito Center Editions (Kaya Press), the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, the Japanese American National Museum. Jhani curretly co-edits Kulhar Books (an imprint of Kaya Press).
If you would like to discuss a collaborative working opportunity, or would like to invite Jhani as a speaker, facilitator, or workshop leader, please post your query using their contact form.
If you are seeking permissions to use Jhani’s writing or imagery for curricula, reviews, anthologized publication, reprinting, or otherwise, please post your query through this contact form.
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