Towards a Sanctuary-Centred Life with Khairani Barokka

Towards a Sanctuary-Centred Life: A Disability History Month Event, Thursday 21 November at 2pm. Join writer and artist Khairani Barokka for a candid talk on sustaining long-term labour in the arts industries, from a disability justice perspective.

Khairani Barokka is a writer, artist, arts consultant, translator and editor from Jakarta. Okka’s work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, environmental justice, and access as translation. She regularly teaches, mentors, and consults for arts organisations, and has a PhD by Practice in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London. Among her honours, she has been a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, a Delfina Foundation Associate Artist, an Artforum Must-See, and Associate Artist at the UK’s National Centre for Writing. She was the first Poet-in-Residence at Modern Poetry in Translation, and later became the magazine’s first non-British Editor.In 2023, Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in the Arts and Culture Category.

Her books include Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, as co-editor), Rope (Nine Arches), Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the 2022 Barbellion Prize, and 2024’s amuk (Nine Arches). Her nonfiction debut, Annah, Infinite, is forthcoming from Tilted Axis Press in 2025.

If you would like to come along, please sign up!

Disability History Month

This Disability History Month we are proud to focus on the theme of Disability Livelihood and Employment. This month is about exploring the rich history of disabled individuals in the workforce, their contributions, and the barriers they continue to overcome. Check out our campaign page to find out more