Prema Bangera (she/they), who is ethnically South Indian (from Tulu Nadu) of lower caste, born in Mumbai, and partially raised on the unceded land of the Pawtucket and Massachusett people (so-called Boston), is a multidisciplinary artist, a community organizer, a cultural worker, a disruptor, an educator, and an editor.

She is the Mixed Genre Editor for Midway Journal.

Her writing and artwork has appeared in various publications and showcased at the Boston City Hall, GBH’s Outspoken series, and painted on the streets of the unceded Naumkeag lands (so-called Salem, MA) as part of the Raining Project at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her work has also been highlighted at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, AAMARP Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, archived at Harvard University’s libraries, and other venues. She was formerly a teaching writer and teaching artist at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and the United South End Settlements.

Bangera established a grassroots consulting & nonprofit arts organization called BIPoC Ancestral Love as Arts (BALA) aimed to uplift QTDBIPoC community members, which offer five programs and practices. One of the long-standing programs called “Narratives of Transformative Love” predates the organization as it was created in 2017 and has been facilitated locally and internationally.

For more information on Prema Bangera and view her other artwork, visit: https://www.premabangera.com
Follow her work-in-progress Instagram via @premapaintspoetry
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