Bidisha Banerjee

Bidisha Banerjee (she/her) aspires to write playfully and humorously—but often ends up sounding earnest and prescriptive. Her first book, Superhuman River: Stories of the Ganga, came out of her climate activism and resonated with indigenous feminist scientific perspectives on expanding the idea of humanity to include what was previously considered non-human. After curing her sleep apnea with a medical didgeridoo, and eliminating chronic autoimmune pain via following a nutrivore diet, Bidisha feels passionate about representing disabled perspectives in her fiction. Bidisha lives on Chochenyo-Ohlone territory (Oakland). She works with social innovators as a somatic coach and bodyworker; she’s grateful that her clients claim she can exorcise their demons.

Schroedinger’s Kitten Falls in Love

Bidisha Banerjee

Back when I was a kitten, existing inside a hypothetical box a scientist had trapped me in, one where I might be dead or alive, from here or there, pansexual or not, I was definitely a fan of The Guest Cat, an audiobook that the young scientist, Soni, played at 2x speed while she worked outside my box, tracking waves and particles flashing above us overhead, like a planetarium show, muttering incompletely about radioactive decay and funding competitions to herself, and to invisible colleagues on her phone.