Gut feelings: yoghurt, biryani, memories, and knowledge all pass through the stomach, especially in a South Asian household. Artist Jasleen Kaur worked with first, second, and third-generation South Asian women and gender-non-conforming people in Rochdale to reimagine the local archive. Together, they asked: can the body itself be an archive?

We designed the book that captured these conversations, with translations in Urdu and nods to everyday Pakistani household objects. Printed on seed paper to echo oral histories and natural archiving, the book was later used in a performance and buried. Its only trace today is the flowers it left behind.

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