Ananya Roy Knihy

This atlas combines cartography, essays, illustrations, and poetry to illustrate gentrification and resistance in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving as a roadmap for counter-hegemonic knowledge and activism. Compiled by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, it presents various frameworks to understand the ongoing urban upheaval, addressing themes such as evictions, indigenous geographies, health and environmental racism, state violence, transportation, migration, and speculative futures. By interweaving these topics, the atlas broadens traditional urban studies perspectives on gentrification, offering a more complex, historically grounded view of the region's social and political interconnectedness. It emphasizes the need to examine the tech boom's impact beyond San Francisco, acknowledging the area's long history of displacement rooted in settler colonialism. The work features contributions from community partners and individuals, including long-time residents facing racial dispossession and elementary school youth imagining decolonial futures. Ultimately, this collaborative atlas aims to enhance understanding of displacement and resistance in the Bay Area, created with those most affected rather than for them.

The collection features poems that give voice to women from diverse backgrounds and experiences, highlighting their emotions and feelings. Each piece captures the essence of anonymity while resonating with readers on a personal level, making the struggles and triumphs of these women feel familiar and relatable. Through evocative language, the poems invite readers to connect with the universal themes of womanhood and shared humanity.

Set in Japan during 1562, the story follows young Nariko, who escapes a samurai attack only to end up on a farm for misfit girls. Unbeknownst to her, the farm is a covert training camp for an all-female ninja army. As a clever and courageous spy, Nariko becomes embroiled in the conflict that shattered her family, driven by a quest to uncover the mysteries of her past.