<i>Shaheen Bagh</i> (2021): Gender, Affects, and Ita Mehrotra’s Graphic Narrative of Protest

Ita Mehrotra’s journalistic memoir, <i>Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection</i> (2021), through the graphic narrative medium, facilitates a reading of Shaheen Bagh protests in India, particularly those Delhi, as pivoting on affective strategies. This article argues how women Delhi mobilised affects primarily following activities – sharing food, singing songs and display artwork. The explores: What role does genre book play representation strategies used protests? And since was considered remarkable because organisers were Muslim (Verde Kumar, 2020, n. p.), study gender ethnicity relation to contribute this proposed reading? is situated within intersecting discourses South Asian Feminisms, Contemporary literature, Affect Theory.