#4 - What the Body Remembers: History, Gender, Erasure and Memory

In this episode of the Sikh Formations Podcast, host Gurkirat Singh Sekhon speaks with Shauna Singh Baldwin about her novel What the Body Remembers and the broader stakes of writing history, memory, and gender from the Sikh diaspora.

Together they explore how fiction emerges from the erasures of history — especially around the marginalization of womens experiences and voices during Partition. Baldwin reflects on her creative process, the role of memoir and archives, and the unique possibilities of diasporic writing in accessing histories across borders.

Throughout, Baldwin highlights writing as a practice of learning. A practice that embraces complexity, challenges certainty, and opens space for new ways of seeing the self and others.