Illustration for the Kohl Journal’s Vol. 11 No. 2 | Fall 2025
Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research كحل: مجلة لأبحاث الجسد و الجندر is a progressive, feminist journal on gender and sexuality in the Middle East, South West Asia, and North Africa regions. Kohl Journal is a biannual, multilingual, open access, and peer reviewed academic journal
For Dr Jo Hemlatha‘s piece “Friends, Workers, Colleagues, Corridorists”
Friends, workers, colleagues, corridorists is a poetry collection about navigating life in the UK academic system as a brown, trans person balancing community, isolation, visas and depression across two institutions. It seeks to be relatable to those in pain, and a teacher to those who do not know what pain exists in the bodies of those not theirs.