“Stories that go on and on”: Transformative Resilience against Gender Violence in Tishani Doshi’s Girls Are Coming out of the Woods

Tishani Doshi’s Girls Are Coming out of the Woods (2017) details gender violences inflicted against women in India and world to promote consciousness-raising, resistance, subversion interlocking systems patriarchal power based on economy, ethnicity gender. In this paper I firstly propose that Doshi promotes a transformative mode resilience guarantees socio-politic change rather than acceptance submission. Secondly, reflect how description fear systemically unveil counter-stories exceed portrayal as victims. Finally, presentation resilient bodies embraces interplanetary possibilities creating constellations co-resistance allow go forward instead leaning back.