Jan 12 2025 52 mins 1
Activism takes many forms, from frontline advocacy and protests to behind the scenes legal work and policy-making to creative visioning and artistic expression. Today’s guest In the Den is an amazing human who weaves all of these forms of justice work into her life. Sara talks with activist, civil rights attorney, and poet Sunu Chandy about her life, her poetry, and how art acts as an integral piece of her activism.
Special Guest: Sunu P. Chandy
Sunu Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist through her work as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She’s a queer woman of color, and the daughter of immigrants from Kerala, India. Sunu lives in D.C. with her family. Her award-winning collection of poems My Dear Comrades was published by Regal House in 2023. Sunu’s work can also be found in Asian American Literary Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Poets on Adoption, The Quarry, and in anthologies includingThe Penguin Book of Indian PoetsandThe Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Sunu is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward, and working with colleagues on Democracy 2025. She is also on the board of the Transgender Law Center and was included as one the Washington Blade’s Queer Women of Washington.. Sunu is delighted to celebrate My Dear Comrades alongside the book's cover artist, Ragni Agarwal.
Links from the Show:
- Sunu’s website: https://www.sunuchandy.net/
- Find My Dear Comrades here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-dear-comrades-sunu-p-chandy/18579401?aid=108866&ean=9781646033195&listref=in-the-den-podcast-featured-authors
- Transgender Law Center: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/
- Democracy 2025: https://www.democracy2025.org/
- Democracy Forward: https://democracyforward.org/
- Join Mama Dragons today: www.mamadragons.org
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