Holding Space: Feminist Reading Circle

Laxmi Murthy is a contributing editor with Himal Southasian, the region’s premier political review magazine published from Colombo. Currently based in Bangalore, she also heads the Hri Institute for South Asian Research and Exchange, a unit under the Himal banner, conducting cross-border research in South Asia. She is currently engaged in a project challenging visual depictions of violence against women in Southasia.

Laxmi has worked with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) since 2002. She is the editor of the annual UNESCO-IFJ South Asia Press Freedom Report. She was deputy coordinator of the Sexual Violence and Impunity research and publication project anchored at the feminist publishing house, Zubaan, New Delhi. Laxmi has been associated with the autonomous women’s movement for more than three decades. She is co-founder of the Network of Women in Media, India, and the Free Speech Collective, a platform to promote the right to free speech and expression and lobby for journalists’ rights in India.