Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia)
@mailbykite.bsky.social
Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
Cannot say enough good things about this work of crystalline poetry, each poem—about Indian cities and kingdoms past and present—deeply relevant to the current political moment.
A treat to meet up w Rahul Soni and celebrate his translation of Shrikant Verma’s MAGADH.
A treat to meet up w Rahul Soni and celebrate his translation of Shrikant Verma’s MAGADH.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Cannot say enough good things about this work of crystalline poetry, each poem—about Indian cities and kingdoms past and present—deeply relevant to the current political moment.
A treat to meet up w Rahul Soni and celebrate his translation of Shrikant Verma’s MAGADH.
A treat to meet up w Rahul Soni and celebrate his translation of Shrikant Verma’s MAGADH.
Join Bella Milroy and I for an-conversation at Birmingham School of Art about our duo show Languages of Intimacy. 🤍🤍
Next week, Wed 19 Nov, 6-8PM UK time, on site at the gallery (B3 3BX) or online.
www.grand-union.org.uk/whats-on/in-...
#xl8 #CripArt
Next week, Wed 19 Nov, 6-8PM UK time, on site at the gallery (B3 3BX) or online.
www.grand-union.org.uk/whats-on/in-...
#xl8 #CripArt
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Join Bella Milroy and I for an-conversation at Birmingham School of Art about our duo show Languages of Intimacy. 🤍🤍
Next week, Wed 19 Nov, 6-8PM UK time, on site at the gallery (B3 3BX) or online.
www.grand-union.org.uk/whats-on/in-...
#xl8 #CripArt
Next week, Wed 19 Nov, 6-8PM UK time, on site at the gallery (B3 3BX) or online.
www.grand-union.org.uk/whats-on/in-...
#xl8 #CripArt
A reminder came in the mail of poetry’s multiform abilities.
I have a new poem in Magma’s Liberation Issue, alongside many wonderful voices, and will be reading at the online launch:
Register at magma93launch.eventbrite.hk
THU 13 November, 7PM GMT
I have a new poem in Magma’s Liberation Issue, alongside many wonderful voices, and will be reading at the online launch:
Register at magma93launch.eventbrite.hk
THU 13 November, 7PM GMT
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A reminder came in the mail of poetry’s multiform abilities.
I have a new poem in Magma’s Liberation Issue, alongside many wonderful voices, and will be reading at the online launch:
Register at magma93launch.eventbrite.hk
THU 13 November, 7PM GMT
I have a new poem in Magma’s Liberation Issue, alongside many wonderful voices, and will be reading at the online launch:
Register at magma93launch.eventbrite.hk
THU 13 November, 7PM GMT
Full house opening night. 💜 Thank you, BHM, for coming out to support tandem solo shows by wonderful Bella Milroy and I. Thank you, Grand Union, we are overwhelmed.
Up at Birmingham School of Art until Nov 27. Virtual walkthrough & more info coming soon via GU.
Up at Birmingham School of Art until Nov 27. Virtual walkthrough & more info coming soon via GU.
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Full house opening night. 💜 Thank you, BHM, for coming out to support tandem solo shows by wonderful Bella Milroy and I. Thank you, Grand Union, we are overwhelmed.
Up at Birmingham School of Art until Nov 27. Virtual walkthrough & more info coming soon via GU.
Up at Birmingham School of Art until Nov 27. Virtual walkthrough & more info coming soon via GU.
If you’re in BHM, do check us out—Bella’s work is gorgeous, &I can’t wait to show you the films… this is us as disabled artists speaking back in our twisty way.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes shot w beloved collaborators at the end of our JKT shoot. Turns out, I bloody love directing, esp w access!
Here’s a behind-the-scenes shot w beloved collaborators at the end of our JKT shoot. Turns out, I bloody love directing, esp w access!
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If you’re in BHM, do check us out—Bella’s work is gorgeous, &I can’t wait to show you the films… this is us as disabled artists speaking back in our twisty way.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes shot w beloved collaborators at the end of our JKT shoot. Turns out, I bloody love directing, esp w access!
Here’s a behind-the-scenes shot w beloved collaborators at the end of our JKT shoot. Turns out, I bloody love directing, esp w access!
🌟 LIT GIVEAWAY ALERT
To celebrate ANNAH, INFINITE, we’re giving 5 free passes to TLC’s Conscious Writing Mth—w so much for writers, including my Masterclass on Writing w Grief.
To enter, share @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social post on IG, nominate in comments
www.instagram.com/p/DPOkltxCGY...
#BookSky
To celebrate ANNAH, INFINITE, we’re giving 5 free passes to TLC’s Conscious Writing Mth—w so much for writers, including my Masterclass on Writing w Grief.
To enter, share @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social post on IG, nominate in comments
www.instagram.com/p/DPOkltxCGY...
#BookSky
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🌟 LIT GIVEAWAY ALERT
To celebrate ANNAH, INFINITE, we’re giving 5 free passes to TLC’s Conscious Writing Mth—w so much for writers, including my Masterclass on Writing w Grief.
To enter, share @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social post on IG, nominate in comments
www.instagram.com/p/DPOkltxCGY...
#BookSky
To celebrate ANNAH, INFINITE, we’re giving 5 free passes to TLC’s Conscious Writing Mth—w so much for writers, including my Masterclass on Writing w Grief.
To enter, share @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social post on IG, nominate in comments
www.instagram.com/p/DPOkltxCGY...
#BookSky
ANNAH, INFINITE has reached POST Santa, my neighborhood bookshop in JKT! 💜 They actually printed out colour postcards w one of my ANNAH artworks, and printed handwritten msgs I wrote for POST customers on the back… and made a stand w all my books.
Excuse me while I tear up. Aku cinta Jakarta.
Excuse me while I tear up. Aku cinta Jakarta.
September 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
ANNAH, INFINITE has reached POST Santa, my neighborhood bookshop in JKT! 💜 They actually printed out colour postcards w one of my ANNAH artworks, and printed handwritten msgs I wrote for POST customers on the back… and made a stand w all my books.
Excuse me while I tear up. Aku cinta Jakarta.
Excuse me while I tear up. Aku cinta Jakarta.
In the mail: @travisclau.bsky.social’s debut collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER.
Tk you, Travis, for the kind inscription, for dedicating this to ‘the softest of us’, and for using one of my fav lines as an epigraph, Aracelis Girmay’s ‘& so to tenderness I add my action’.
So looking fwd to this ✨
Tk you, Travis, for the kind inscription, for dedicating this to ‘the softest of us’, and for using one of my fav lines as an epigraph, Aracelis Girmay’s ‘& so to tenderness I add my action’.
So looking fwd to this ✨
September 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In the mail: @travisclau.bsky.social’s debut collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER.
Tk you, Travis, for the kind inscription, for dedicating this to ‘the softest of us’, and for using one of my fav lines as an epigraph, Aracelis Girmay’s ‘& so to tenderness I add my action’.
So looking fwd to this ✨
Tk you, Travis, for the kind inscription, for dedicating this to ‘the softest of us’, and for using one of my fav lines as an epigraph, Aracelis Girmay’s ‘& so to tenderness I add my action’.
So looking fwd to this ✨
Terima kasih banyak / thank you so much, everyone, for one of the best nights of my life at ANNAH, INFINITE launch.
The social anxiety lasted only until I looked around and realised that at 40, I’ve gathered such utterly lovely, loving, kind, talented people around me. It was a joy joy joy. 🤍
The social anxiety lasted only until I looked around and realised that at 40, I’ve gathered such utterly lovely, loving, kind, talented people around me. It was a joy joy joy. 🤍
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Terima kasih banyak / thank you so much, everyone, for one of the best nights of my life at ANNAH, INFINITE launch.
The social anxiety lasted only until I looked around and realised that at 40, I’ve gathered such utterly lovely, loving, kind, talented people around me. It was a joy joy joy. 🤍
The social anxiety lasted only until I looked around and realised that at 40, I’ve gathered such utterly lovely, loving, kind, talented people around me. It was a joy joy joy. 🤍
(Launch party sold out, I used to dream of times like this.
Writing can be so isolating, really happy to share 14 yrs’ perseverance w everyone tomorrow. 🙏🏼💜 Tx all.
‘[W]e must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.’ José Esteban Muñoz)
Writing can be so isolating, really happy to share 14 yrs’ perseverance w everyone tomorrow. 🙏🏼💜 Tx all.
‘[W]e must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.’ José Esteban Muñoz)
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
(Launch party sold out, I used to dream of times like this.
Writing can be so isolating, really happy to share 14 yrs’ perseverance w everyone tomorrow. 🙏🏼💜 Tx all.
‘[W]e must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.’ José Esteban Muñoz)
Writing can be so isolating, really happy to share 14 yrs’ perseverance w everyone tomorrow. 🙏🏼💜 Tx all.
‘[W]e must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.’ José Esteban Muñoz)
Last night’s Poetry in the Library event yielded lovely Q & A. Every q. was thoughtful, thk you all!
The fab Phương Anh from Tilted Axis was there to support ANNAH—
pls attend their hybrid fundraiser for Palestine SUN, also a book launch & trilingual reading: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...
The fab Phương Anh from Tilted Axis was there to support ANNAH—
pls attend their hybrid fundraiser for Palestine SUN, also a book launch & trilingual reading: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...
September 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Last night’s Poetry in the Library event yielded lovely Q & A. Every q. was thoughtful, thk you all!
The fab Phương Anh from Tilted Axis was there to support ANNAH—
pls attend their hybrid fundraiser for Palestine SUN, also a book launch & trilingual reading: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...
The fab Phương Anh from Tilted Axis was there to support ANNAH—
pls attend their hybrid fundraiser for Palestine SUN, also a book launch & trilingual reading: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...
Lovely meeting Hamza, who won the ESEA Lit Fest fashion contest in our eyes!
September 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Lovely meeting Hamza, who won the ESEA Lit Fest fashion contest in our eyes!
Proper excited for these three books to be in conversation with each other tomorrow, on our ESEA Lit Fest panel On Narrative and Silence.
SJ Kim’s THIS PART IS SILENT
Xiaolu Guo’s CALL ME ISHMAELLE
and my ANNAH, INFINITE
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/esea-lit-f...
SJ Kim’s THIS PART IS SILENT
Xiaolu Guo’s CALL ME ISHMAELLE
and my ANNAH, INFINITE
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/esea-lit-f...
September 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Proper excited for these three books to be in conversation with each other tomorrow, on our ESEA Lit Fest panel On Narrative and Silence.
SJ Kim’s THIS PART IS SILENT
Xiaolu Guo’s CALL ME ISHMAELLE
and my ANNAH, INFINITE
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/esea-lit-f...
SJ Kim’s THIS PART IS SILENT
Xiaolu Guo’s CALL ME ISHMAELLE
and my ANNAH, INFINITE
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/esea-lit-f...
🤍 Spent the day in a LDN space filled with brilliant Southeast Asian women, lovingly curated by @annasulan.bsky.social (racist marchers who?).
Tk you all for your beautiful appreciation of our community, of Anna’s book & of mine.
Pictured: DJ Sasha, Anna, Nur Khairiyah, Rahel Stephanie, myself
Tk you all for your beautiful appreciation of our community, of Anna’s book & of mine.
Pictured: DJ Sasha, Anna, Nur Khairiyah, Rahel Stephanie, myself
September 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🤍 Spent the day in a LDN space filled with brilliant Southeast Asian women, lovingly curated by @annasulan.bsky.social (racist marchers who?).
Tk you all for your beautiful appreciation of our community, of Anna’s book & of mine.
Pictured: DJ Sasha, Anna, Nur Khairiyah, Rahel Stephanie, myself
Tk you all for your beautiful appreciation of our community, of Anna’s book & of mine.
Pictured: DJ Sasha, Anna, Nur Khairiyah, Rahel Stephanie, myself
Just look at this gorgeous tapestry by and for Sisters of Frida, collective of disabled women of colour. 💜💚🤍
September 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just look at this gorgeous tapestry by and for Sisters of Frida, collective of disabled women of colour. 💜💚🤍
Amidst the necropolitics of the world, sunflowers among pub day presents, to hopefully brighten yr day as they have mine. 🤍
September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Amidst the necropolitics of the world, sunflowers among pub day presents, to hopefully brighten yr day as they have mine. 🤍
Met Ultah! Happy bday at long last to ANNAH, INFINITE, my entire heart.
There is the possibility of pain in every picture, & also the possibility of escape.
Sept events below, all welcome! Launch Party: Wed SEP24, Round Table Bks, 6-9PM, wheelchair access&loo
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annah-infi...
There is the possibility of pain in every picture, & also the possibility of escape.
Sept events below, all welcome! Launch Party: Wed SEP24, Round Table Bks, 6-9PM, wheelchair access&loo
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annah-infi...
September 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Met Ultah! Happy bday at long last to ANNAH, INFINITE, my entire heart.
There is the possibility of pain in every picture, & also the possibility of escape.
Sept events below, all welcome! Launch Party: Wed SEP24, Round Table Bks, 6-9PM, wheelchair access&loo
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annah-infi...
There is the possibility of pain in every picture, & also the possibility of escape.
Sept events below, all welcome! Launch Party: Wed SEP24, Round Table Bks, 6-9PM, wheelchair access&loo
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annah-infi...
A poetry reading from ANNAH, INFINITE, my \ prose / debut?
Listen, no way I wld write this book w/o poems I wrote abt Annah in it…
7PM Sep 22, Deptford Lounge, Poetry in the Library w myself & Erica Hesketh. Free, wheelchair access, book below ✨
lewisham.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=227...
Listen, no way I wld write this book w/o poems I wrote abt Annah in it…
7PM Sep 22, Deptford Lounge, Poetry in the Library w myself & Erica Hesketh. Free, wheelchair access, book below ✨
lewisham.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=227...
September 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
A poetry reading from ANNAH, INFINITE, my \ prose / debut?
Listen, no way I wld write this book w/o poems I wrote abt Annah in it…
7PM Sep 22, Deptford Lounge, Poetry in the Library w myself & Erica Hesketh. Free, wheelchair access, book below ✨
lewisham.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=227...
Listen, no way I wld write this book w/o poems I wrote abt Annah in it…
7PM Sep 22, Deptford Lounge, Poetry in the Library w myself & Erica Hesketh. Free, wheelchair access, book below ✨
lewisham.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=227...
This is my Content Warning that begins ANNAH, INFINITE. It was v impt for me to include encouragement for ppl to take breaks, take care of themselves, and to know that I black out words and that this is an escape story.
If you included a Content Warning in yr book, pls let me know/share 🤍 #CripLit
If you included a Content Warning in yr book, pls let me know/share 🤍 #CripLit
![CONTENT WARNING
This is an escape story. There are vast fields of intertwined kinds
of violence to pass through, and I try my utmost to reference
them without sinking you, to allude to them without being ex-
plicit where possible. I have tried to keep you here with gen-
tleness, without gratuitousness, undue explicitness. Though of
course my attempts may have differing outcomes for each of us,
my intention is for this book to be about the peace on the other
side, rarely thought of by many, for Annah, for many of us. We
can return and return to that peace for the stretch you are here
with me.
Many forms of violence are present in the possibilities for
who Annah la Javanaise depicts. But there are also many possibili-
ties to escape every single one of them. Possibilities that exist, that
are always already here. I use this brushstroke over words, where
I feel it may be needed for us: for instance, [assault]. It is impossi-
ble, of course, to gauge every reader’s zone of safety, but I have
tried my best.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gwjeoe5r3of6nruaiwielqrc/bafkreig2wbnjfkku6m2lxla4uksbd6lstgwrwvtzl433mz6l5b7c5nvkce@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is my Content Warning that begins ANNAH, INFINITE. It was v impt for me to include encouragement for ppl to take breaks, take care of themselves, and to know that I black out words and that this is an escape story.
If you included a Content Warning in yr book, pls let me know/share 🤍 #CripLit
If you included a Content Warning in yr book, pls let me know/share 🤍 #CripLit
Thank you, Alice and Finnegan. Several of these free graphics are infuriatingly applicable around the world.
September 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Thank you, Alice and Finnegan. Several of these free graphics are infuriatingly applicable around the world.
I remember when Lush put out a statement of ‘neutrality’ in response to a pro-Palestinian branch.
Gd job, Lush UK. ‘We know that sentiment across the int’l Lush business is strong & we expect similar actions may follow as other Lush ctries seek ways to express their solidarity’
www.lush.com/uk/en
Gd job, Lush UK. ‘We know that sentiment across the int’l Lush business is strong & we expect similar actions may follow as other Lush ctries seek ways to express their solidarity’
www.lush.com/uk/en
September 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I remember when Lush put out a statement of ‘neutrality’ in response to a pro-Palestinian branch.
Gd job, Lush UK. ‘We know that sentiment across the int’l Lush business is strong & we expect similar actions may follow as other Lush ctries seek ways to express their solidarity’
www.lush.com/uk/en
Gd job, Lush UK. ‘We know that sentiment across the int’l Lush business is strong & we expect similar actions may follow as other Lush ctries seek ways to express their solidarity’
www.lush.com/uk/en
A poem of mine is in INDIGENOUS WATERVIEWS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORY, SONG & PROTOCOL FOR WATER ETHICS (pub’ed by Siwar Mayu, A River of Hummingbirds & Indigenous Environmental Network).
Tx editors for bringing us together. Avail as free, Open Access PDF as well indigenous-message.org/anthologies-...
Tx editors for bringing us together. Avail as free, Open Access PDF as well indigenous-message.org/anthologies-...
August 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A poem of mine is in INDIGENOUS WATERVIEWS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORY, SONG & PROTOCOL FOR WATER ETHICS (pub’ed by Siwar Mayu, A River of Hummingbirds & Indigenous Environmental Network).
Tx editors for bringing us together. Avail as free, Open Access PDF as well indigenous-message.org/anthologies-...
Tx editors for bringing us together. Avail as free, Open Access PDF as well indigenous-message.org/anthologies-...
Please join SJ Kim and I, moderated by Xiaolu Guo for
SLEIGHT OF HAND: On narrative and silence
ESEA Lit Fest
6th Flr Foyles LDN, Charing Cross Rd.
SEPT 20, 11AM-12PM
Wheelchair-accessible lift access
Tickets:
www.foyles.co.uk/events/esea-...
#AnnahInfinite
SLEIGHT OF HAND: On narrative and silence
ESEA Lit Fest
6th Flr Foyles LDN, Charing Cross Rd.
SEPT 20, 11AM-12PM
Wheelchair-accessible lift access
Tickets:
www.foyles.co.uk/events/esea-...
#AnnahInfinite
August 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Please join SJ Kim and I, moderated by Xiaolu Guo for
SLEIGHT OF HAND: On narrative and silence
ESEA Lit Fest
6th Flr Foyles LDN, Charing Cross Rd.
SEPT 20, 11AM-12PM
Wheelchair-accessible lift access
Tickets:
www.foyles.co.uk/events/esea-...
#AnnahInfinite
SLEIGHT OF HAND: On narrative and silence
ESEA Lit Fest
6th Flr Foyles LDN, Charing Cross Rd.
SEPT 20, 11AM-12PM
Wheelchair-accessible lift access
Tickets:
www.foyles.co.uk/events/esea-...
#AnnahInfinite
Looks so good:
‘This session brings together publishers, writers, and translators to ask how often women’s voices in India find their way into translation and what gets left out.’ #WITMonth
21 August 2025
🕒 6:30 pm IST
📍 Online on Zoom
cityscripts.iihs.co.in
‘This session brings together publishers, writers, and translators to ask how often women’s voices in India find their way into translation and what gets left out.’ #WITMonth
21 August 2025
🕒 6:30 pm IST
📍 Online on Zoom
cityscripts.iihs.co.in
August 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Looks so good:
‘This session brings together publishers, writers, and translators to ask how often women’s voices in India find their way into translation and what gets left out.’ #WITMonth
21 August 2025
🕒 6:30 pm IST
📍 Online on Zoom
cityscripts.iihs.co.in
‘This session brings together publishers, writers, and translators to ask how often women’s voices in India find their way into translation and what gets left out.’ #WITMonth
21 August 2025
🕒 6:30 pm IST
📍 Online on Zoom
cityscripts.iihs.co.in