.the_archive / Roshni Riar

I am a Punjabi-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary new media artist, and community organizer who works with experiences around, and questions arising from, having a diasporic racialized identity, the process of othering, and the narrative societal constructions that manifest within ourselves through these universally traumatic, yet bonding, experiences. I explore how the imposition of assumption and stereotype is placed upon the marginalized body, and the way these bodies move, fold, expand, and push, and sometimes crumble, against such ideas. My past work has included poetry digging into my own ancestral history of both willing and forced migration, bodily autonomy, habituality, and the embodied inheritance of intergenerational trauma and ancestral knowledge in specifically the South Asian female form. In recent years, I have collaborated with multi-disciplinary artists and art collectives such as Anju Singh, Guntaj deep Singh,  Okams Racer, and Chimerik 似不像 on various interdisciplinary projects. My work has appeared in literary magazines such as Room Magazine, CV2 Magazine, Antigonish Review, Parentheses Journal, Canthius, Honey Literary, HIR Zine, Woodhall Press’ Non-White and Woman anthology, and more.

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