Book Projects

The Stories We Carry: AutoethnoGraphics of Self, Scar, and Struggle

Edited by Merlyna Lim & Kathy Dobson

is a genre-blending collection of narrative non-fiction essays from 21 contributors—including award-winning journalists, immigrant writers, queer voices, artists, and Indigenous storytellers—who share a common thread: they navigate spaces not built for them while carrying the weight of identities, histories, and traumas that dominant institutions often render invisible. Read more

AutoethnoGraphics of Indonesian Women Scholars

Edited by Merlyna Lim & Annisa R Beta

This edited volume gathers the often-dismissed stories of Indonesian women scholars across archipelagic, diasporic, and disciplinary boundaries. Through autoethnographic and autohistoria- inspired chapters that move between memory and embodied knowing, the contributors trace the histories etched in their sense of self: journeys of care, joy, precarity, dissonance, and refusal that shape how they think, write, teach, organise, and survive. Read more