Reading Circle with Nikita Aashi Chadha
Join us for a reading circle with the amazing poet and writer Nikita Aashi Chadha (she/they) for South Asian Heritage Month. We’ll be exploring the concepts of space, place and belonging in three essays within Nikesh Shukla’s The Good Immigrant.
Content warning: the essays cover a breadth of topics, including but not limited to racism, casteism and discrimination.
There is no need for any preparation beforehand, as participants will be reading through the extracts together: Namaste by Nikesh Shukla, Airports and Auditions by Riz Ahmed and Perpetuating Casteism by Sarah Sahim. Nikita will then lead a facilitated discussion around each essay and its prominent themes.
The last 15 minutes of this session will be centred on freewriting. A light touch space for participants to work through any residual feelings from the session - folks can share after if they want to, but there is no pressure to.
Nikita is trained in mental health first aid and has direct lived experience of multiple mental health conditions, and being a South Asian person from the diaspora, born and raised in the UK.
Please can participants let us know of any access needs for the session when registering so that we can accommodate them.