Hajar Press
<p>Founded in 2020 by Brekhna Aftab and Farhaana Arefin, Hajar Press is an independent and proudly political publishing house run by and for people of color. Hajar was born out of our frustration with the publishing industry’s structural problems—institutional racism; commercial trend-following; Amazon’s domination; and the atomization of readers and writers—as well as with the lack of internationalism and antiracist solidarity within many of our political movements. We aim to build a community for people of color, who are too often excluded from both these worlds: mainstream publishing and many conversations on the left. By writing on our own terms, we want to honor our histories, imagine new horizons and strengthen our collective power.</p>
Series-editor: Brekhna Aftab, Farhaana Arefin
Authors: Zena Agha, Yara Hawari, Waithera Sebatindira, Sarah Lasoye, Pear Nuallak, Mohamed Tonsy, Lola Olufemi, Jamal Mehmood, Heba Hayek, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Cradle Community