Nearly half of the South Asian American diaspora experiences violence, yet this crisis remains shrouded in silence.

Sanctuaries aims to break that silence—creating a space for survivor stories to be held with care and inspiring collective healing, solidarity, and action.

Earlier this year, we called on our community to submit stories about gender-based violence, and you answered. Since then, we have hosted a 5-week Storytelling Academy in partnership with re: power, established survivor-centered storytelling principles with Shobana Powell Consulting, spent weeks providing one-on-one editing and coaching our storytellers, and designed the anthology in collaboration with Monica Mohapatra.

Now, almost half a year later, we’ve created something truly revolutionary. Sanctuaries is a testament to survivor power, an ode to stories of resistance and healing, and a promise to survivors everywhere that we will create a different world.