Diya (she/they) is a senior from St. Louis, MO majoring in English, Creative Writing & South Asian Studies. They are interested in exploring Poetry, Sound & Jazz Studies, and Post-colonial theory while writing for the Nonviolence Project.
Nonviolence demonstrates itself in almost all revolutionary forms. It is through literature, text, archives, and language that movements move forward. As a creative thinker, I am moved by the way that metaphor and the page can manipulate time and image to reimagine radical futures. For those whose lives are forever affected by colonialism, how can we use the page, a non-violent act, to write the worlds we have always wanted? In a world of terror, we need archives such as the non-violent project, to prove that what happened and what is happening was real, that it meant something to history.