Payal Kumar

Payal (they/them) is a multidisciplinary cultural worker and abortion doula based on Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Pawtucket land in so-called Boston. Their work across mediums is grounded in forms of folk art and [sub]cultural resistance from peoples' movements across local and global margins (particularly from the visual language of their family’s villages in the Madhubani district of Bihar). Rooted in the in-betweens, their work calls on us to challenge the state's monopoly on Imagination so that we may all unearth and activate our collective power.