September 2025:  I was invited to speak at the 78th SGRA Forum / 5th Asian Cultural Dialogues, Okinawa University, Naha. My talk, “Waris and Gravediggers: Inheriting Unresolved Gendered Violence in Indonesia,” explored how Indonesian feminists confront inherited violence. 

When we chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” we imagine not only the time when Palestine will be free but also the time when we end the racist, colonial, patriarchal, global capitalist systems that privilege certain flows of people, capital, and ideas and yet at the same time demonize others, create open-air prisons, and enable mass killings.

Songs I listened to when I wrote Gentayangan (The Wandering). Some of them even found their way into the book. So here it is, The Wandering playlist, better late than never!

Many thanks to all writers, bloggers, and the media for including my books, Apple and Knife and The Wandering, on these wonderful lists.

Gunawan Maryanto selalu ada dalam perjalanan—kita tak selalu tahu ke mana tapi ia mengejar sesuatu-- dan Tuhan mengambilnya begitu saja. Hidup Cindhil dipenuhi puisi. Kematiannya juga begitu (Tak bisa berhenti untuk maut, maka maut menghentikannya—meminjam Emily Dickinson).

To erase archives is to deny the right to tell the story, which returns us to Edward Said’s question: Who has the permission to narrate?