The
Manifesto.

Kindly gather your inherited sensibilities, board a horse-drawn carriage, and flee the century. Women, you see, are rather the point.

Their stories, their curious little worlds, their intellectual insurrections, and their scandalous insistence on being entire human beings: these are precisely what we are here to make a gloriously insufferable fuss about.

The hereditary bureau of male interpretations, unsolicited corrections and other services never requested has enjoyed several centuries with the quill. We trust it will survive the arrival of one more publication.

Matria is that publication: a literary home for the many within. Essays, fiction, poetry, criticism and reportage on literature, feminism, culture, social issues and education, written by Pakistani voices and the voices beside them. Read. Resist. Dream.