WE DIDN'T INHERIT SOLIDARITY

we build it day by day
BlindianProject began as a question, not an organization.
BlindianProject is a living archive and cultural practice.
It documents, convenes, and builds spaces for Black × Brown connection as something formed slowly —
through memory, art, refusal, and care.
Much of this work is shaped through what we call Reconstruction Studies —
a practice-led approach to archive, memory, and relation that treats lived experience, domestic ritual, and cultural inheritance as sites of knowledge production.
We work through film, writing, ritual, research, and public gathering —
not as outputs,
but as ways of staying in relationship with one another.
Much of what we carry was never meant to be remembered together —
by design.
Our work holds those fragments side by side,
without flattening difference
and without rushing toward easy unity.
Solidarity, for us, is not inherited.
It is practiced —
in how we listen,
how we disagree,
how we show up,
and how we stay.
This archive moves.
→ Enter Archives in Motion
Living stories from a moving archive
→ Follow a journey: Riding with Sahil
One voice. One path. In real time.
HOW THE WORK SHOWS UP — NOT EVERYWHERE, BUT WHERE IT MATTERS
— Film and moving image
— Writing and sound
— Ritual and gathering
— Research as relationship
— Public conversation
WHO HOLDS THIS WORK?
BlindianProject is not anonymous.
It is carried by people accountable to the communities and histories they work within.
The project is founded and stewarded by
Jonah Batambuze
→ Artist biography & practice
Editorial and collaborative shaping
BlindianProject has been shaped at key moments through editorial collaboration with Ayesha Syeddah (Founding Managing Editor) and Arsheen Shamaila, and continues to grow through ongoing relationships with editors, writers, and contributors across Black and South Asian diasporas.
