Kaurs Reimagine
In our first collection of stories, “Her Name is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write About Love, Courage, and Faith,” Sikh women weaved captivating stories with distinct voices and connections to the Divine. Their struggles and power were universal. Kaurs from diverse communities drew strength and inspiration from these newly paved paths of Sikh truth-centered storytelling. Now, gather around the life-sustaining fire of stories for the creation of our second volume, “Kaurs Reimagine.” Grab your imagination chunni/patka/dastaar and journey with us on the path of the Guru’s vision
Overview
In our first collection of stories, Her Name is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write About Love, Courage, and Faith, Sikh women weaved captivating stories with distinct voices and connections to the Divine. Their struggles and power were universal. We drew strength and inspiration from these newly paved paths of Sikh storytelling in North America.
In this current social and political moment, our collective capacity to create an inclusive, kind, and sustainable world is crucial. We can add to the collective through truth-centered storytelling. We once again gather around the life-sustaining fire of stories for our second volume. We invite Sikh women and gender queer, non-binary, and gender non-conforming individuals to explore Guru Nanak Ji’s vision for a new world. From spiritual brides and mothers, to visionaries, warriors, and explorers, Guru Nanak drew inspiration from the feminine voices around him to reveal Divine love and wisdom.
These Divine gifts fused into Guru Nanak Ji’s imagination, words, and deeds to illuminate a new world: a world where we walk with each other in equality, in the rich mosaic of creation. We walk in our own liberation while working towards freedom for all communities.
To travel along Guru Nanak Ji’s path, we look within ourselves to embrace revealed truths. Truths that reveal the wounds that need healing. Truths that are hidden. Truths that need to be developed and truths that reveal the light within us. In these collective truths, we can re-imagine ourselves and our lives. The Sikh Love Stories Project embraces Guru Nanak Ji’s vision for this great society.
With this, tell us what your re-imagined vision for yourself is. We all may be at different points in our journey: fully immersed in our dreamscapes, actively creating a grounded reality in the world, or integrating the realms of dreams and reality.
We welcome a diversity of stories across generations, geographies, and gender identities to create a treasure trove of knowledge and wisdom. While we refer to the Divine feminine as an energetic source to draw from, we assume the inclusion of all Sikhs across gender identities drawing from this same source.
For this new volume, we draw inspiration from The Feminine Principle of The Sikh Vision of the Transcendent by Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh and See No Stranger by Valerie Kaur. For more inspiration, please see the archetypes below created by Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur-Singh. We adapted and shaped the archetypes in our collective re-imagination for this project. The archetypes’ descriptions and questions may provide the story structure you are looking for, however you are not limited to them.
Your story is yours to create.
Archetypes:
The Bride: the one who rises in love, liberating herself and her community.
The Mother: the one who nurtures herself and Divine creation.
The Warrior: the one who transforms anger into love and enters the arena ready to fight.
The Visionary: the one who explores, questions and follows her truth.
The Explorer: the one who finds herself through a call to action.