Aatika Singh is a Delhi based artist, activist and scholar. She is currently pursuing a PhD from the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research is on the philosophical and political connections of aesthetics in the subcontinent with respect to Dalit cultural history and assertion. She has been published with The Hindu, The Wire, Cafe Dissensus, Trolley Times, Indian Cultural Forum, among others. She is passionate about emotional labour, alternative cinema, resistance visuality and rural activism traditions.