Editor, Organizer, Advocate
Sruti Suryanarayanan (they/them) is a Tamizh American craftsperson and writer, also co-organizing with Art.coop from Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). They study systems of racial, economic, and migration inequity and use this focus to design, implement, and facilitate creative learning and advocacy to encourage healing and justice in intergenerational communities, particularly with people of color, away from state, interpersonal, and historically traumatic violence and towards self-determination. Sruti develops tools to encourage collective questioning while centering critical and compassionate care, relying on the deep traditions of material and movement craft in their families. In addition to their work with Art.coop, Sruti is a researcher of hate violence, a community educator, a homecook, and a lacemaker.
Sruti was integral to the work in the Solidarity Economy section of the site.
Editor, Organizer, Advocate
Sruti Suryanarayanan (they/them) is a Tamizh American craftsperson and writer, also co-organizing with Art.coop from Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). They study systems of racial, economic, and migration inequity and use this focus to design, implement, and facilitate creative learning and advocacy to encourage healing and justice in intergenerational communities, particularly with people of color, away from state, interpersonal, and historically traumatic violence and towards self-determination. Sruti develops tools to encourage collective questioning while centering critical and compassionate care, relying on the deep traditions of material and movement craft in their families. In addition to their work with Art.coop, Sruti is a researcher of hate violence, a community educator, a homecook, and a lacemaker.
Sruti was integral to the work in the Solidarity Economy section of the site.
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In Eshe's personal life, they are a performance artist and non-linear poet/storyteller/playwright. They went to Hampshire College for theater, where they wrote, starred in, and co-directed their original play, Fat.Black.& Ugly. They are currently rediscovering performance and make work on their Instagram page, producing a series of captioned stories during the pandemic called, #welcomefromthefuture, telling stories that captured a new world after lockdown.