EP760 - Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati on how to live with pain differently
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In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati.
Philippa talks to us about how to live with pain differently, in a way that is more life-sustaining and enchanting.
Dr. L. Aya is the author and co-editor of five books, including Scarred: A Feminist Journey through Pain, which won 2024 Association of American Publishers PROSE book award for Biography/Autobiography, 2024 Next Generation Indie Book award co-winner, and was included in Library Journals Best Books of 2023.
Her first book, Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia, won 2013 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa book award.
Her work has been included as one of Meridians journal’s most impactful works in the past twenty years, and mentioned in The Economist, Aljazeera, Deutsche Welle, Ms. magazine, Publishers’ Weekly, Vogue Australia, SBS Radio Australia, among others.
She is also an acquisition editor at Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal, a board member of WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), and associate consultant at “EVERYBODY consulting.”
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