Priya Jay was Afterall Writer in Residence between January and June 2021. Her essay can be read here.
In Residence
In this piece, Priya Jay reflects on what it meant to be a writer in residence in the first half of 2021, during a period of protracted national lockdown, isolation and mourning. As research time, pandemic time and the time of illness and grief become porously enmeshed, Jay considers the very meaning of ‘residency’, a word whose Latin root is remain, and which she associates with personal abode and the body-home. The text was written and edited on Google Docs, and is offered to the reader in the same format. Clicking on hyperlinks, readers are invited to retrace Jay‘s research journey, while at the same time opening up new portals.