Articles by Cynthia Dewi Oka

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Cynthia Dewi Oka is an Indonesian poet and single mama currently residing in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. In the past few years she has organized with the Breakthrough Mamas, Rhizome Movement Building Centre, 2010 (Anti-Olympic) Welcoming Committee and No One is Illegal. 

  • experiments in freedom

    Honourable mention, creative writing contest (non-fiction)

    by Cynthia Dewi Oka • Apr 17, 2012

    There is a mass grave here. The broken skins of some of the fruit reveal eyes, nasal cartilage, thumbs.

  • Homeplace as revolutionary front

    Taking “care” back into our hands

    by Cynthia Dewi Oka • Nov 1, 2011

    Homeplace is where we are grown and raised into social beings, where we receive our earliest definitions of humanity, where we first learn to recognize love, violence, justice and pain. Yet it has persisted in our imagination as a private sphere of emotional and material dependence, rather than as a front in revolutionary struggle.