Beloved reading community,
Unbelonging has been out of print for some time now. The steadfast community support for my work has enheartened and uplifted me. You have prompted me to persist through these times of struggle and resistance. Instead of simply creating a revised edition, I added entirely new sections, energies and inquiries. It is my fervent hope that this book will meet the new unlearning and solidarity potentials that lie ahead. This is a soul offering to the collective during these times of unraveling and travail.
May we imagine, dream, and conjure our liberation.
Diaspora-ish
Notes on Identities, Unbelonging, & Solidarities
Words By: Gayatri Sethi | Cover & Book Design By: Annika Sarin
Published By: SAMBASIVAN & PARIKH
A collective learning resource that offers inquiries about diasporic identity and belonging aimed at practicing global solidarity
What does it mean to be in diaspora? How do our identities and aspirations for belonging unfold during times of collective upheaval?
In her lifelong search for solidarity, educator Gayatri Sethi draws upon her own complex diasporic journey to explore widely accepted ideas about identity and belonging. Spanning three continents and multiple phases of the author’s life, Diaspora-ish offers inquiries into many facets of identity—names, relationships, ethnicities, citizenships—and poignantly demonstrates how these are weaponized to exclude and other. Addressing prevalent misconceptions about immigration, Sethi pushes for a deeper understanding of migration and diaspora that centers decoloniality and anti-imperialism. Diaspora-ish is an urgent call to unlearn oppressions in order to work bravely toward collective liberation.
In an extension of her genre-bending nonfiction debut Unbelonging, Sethi juxtaposes personal observations with academic notes and inquiries to guide readers through paradigm shifts in learning. Diaspora-ish presents an anti-imperial, anti-racist, collective learning resource that centers historically marginalized and excluded global realities.
I am both relieved and incredibly blessed to share this long anticipated update on the publication of the next book! I do not have enough words of gratitude to convey how supportive and intentional the new publishers, Ambika Sambasivan and Suhani Parikh, have been as we collaborate. We are working earnestly to bring this new book to readers in August, 2025.
Your support means everything.
Thank you in advance.
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congratulations!!