Start Here: What Chelo Kabob for the Soul Is

Hello dear reader and thank you for giving Chelo a try.

Chelo is not just memoir.

It's not just political commentary.

It’s a third thing: writing as ritual, reckoning, and remembering—anchored in body, lineage, and movement history.

This is what makes it unique.

I invite you not just to learn or witness, but to feel with me. To sense the contours of grief and dignity in "political life"---which is what we seem to be living more with each passing year---and maybe even heal something, as you do.

To build orientation, I invite you to start from Monsters Under the Stairs Part 1.

Much love,

Banafsheh