Khairani Barokka
Khairani Barokka is a writer, artist, translator and editor from Jakarta. In 2023, Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in the Arts and Culture category, and longlisted for the Loewe/Studio Voltaire Award. Okka’s work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, and access as translation. Among her honours, she has been a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, a Delfina Foundation Associate Artist, an Artforum Must-See, and Associate Artist at the UK’s National Centre for Writing. She also gave DaDa's Rushton Lecture in 2022. Okka's latest book is 2024's amuk (Nine Arches); her creative nonfiction debut Annah, Infinite will be out with Tilted Axis in June 2025. Image description: A black and white photo of an Indonesian woman with black hair tied back. She is wearing lipstick, and a black and white daster, and is smiling to the camera against a white background.
