An artist and writer since her early childhood brought up in a police state, Sfarda L. Gül's (alias) creative focus hones in on the macabre and introspective, the grotesque and juxtaposing—a deconstruction of social ideology and human suffering influenced by her upbringing, queerness, historically persecuted mixed ethnicity, and dark-sided emotional disposition.
When not engaging in art, Sfarda is enthralled in ethnography, linguistics, filmmaking, and social activism aiding to uplift ethnic and queer minorities of her native Eastern Europe, SWANA, and Central Asia. She is the curator of independent publication Lacrimosity and Righteous Rage which hosts a Substack newsletter, and a YouTube video essayist at Anarchy on Page.
Sfarda is the May 2024 debut author of NON SERVIAM, first of THE HYPOSTASIS OF DISSENT duology.
EARTH HAGIOGRAPHY, a poetry collection exploring indigeneity and colonial pain, will be published in November of 2024.
NON OMNIS MORIAR, the second and final installment in THE HYPOSTASIS OF DISSENT duology, is slated for an April 2025 publication.
FEED THE FOREST AND NEVER CHOOSE DEATH, a transgressive fiction novella following a serial killer and stalker duo, will be published Halloween of 2025.
SPOILS OF FAMINE, a flashfiction retelling of a Pontian folk tale centering indigenous culture and community care, was published in the 2023 Issue 3 of The Globe Review.
Sfarda's art and poetry are featured in the March 2024 SPLIT POMEGRANATE Artsakh charity zine curated by Agavny Vardanyan.
Find Sfarda's poetry in Musing Publications, From Heart to Stomach, Mollusk Literary, Metachrosis Literary, Full House Literary, Qafiyah Review, HyeBred Magazine, As Alive Journal, and others.
Researcher at The Outland Magazine, a literary zine amplifying Asian voices.
Critic of Orientalism in media.
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The Hypostasis of Dissent
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The city state of Vencenza rots, and Giorgianna, vengeful, enlightened, an outlaw and witch, seeks blood—the dues she's owed for the crimes committed against her and those she loves.
As summer withers to autumn, she is faced with a deadly quest: infiltrate the ministerial court, unspool the inner circle's darkest secrets, and aid the resistance in bringing forth a revolution to finally break the shackles of tyranny. All while remaining under pretences amidst the state's most powerful and violent men.
But explosive tensions mount among the revolutionaries, bodies pile in the streets, the church gains frightening authority, and Giorgianna's psyche teeters along its final breaking point—made only worse by a lovesickness more agonising than hunger.
With winter looming upon the horizon, civil war seems inevitable, and love could never be a saviour.
How dearly will those dues cost?
In this second and ultimate instalment of the grimdark dystopian X gaslamp fantasy duology THE HYPOSTASIS OF DISSENT, politics take centre stage, trust is tragically tested, and dark and bloody magic joins the fray of a battle for liberation.
The paperback edition features several illustrations by the author, Sfarda L. Gül, as well as one illustration each by Ayşe-Mira Yaşın and Nadia Sampellegrini.
Take note that this book is very heavy on worldbuilding and conlang, and features very dense prose, something which some readers may find detracts from immersion for them.
Content Warnings: government oppression, death, graphic gore, self-injury, mental illness, police brutality, violence against women and trans-identifying peoples, child death and murder, human experimentation, religion and religious violence, gun violence, classism, discussions of sexual violence (humans, minors), suicide, smoking (tobacco), alcohol, mention of intravenous drug abuse, surgical procedures and needles, fires, sex (open-door, non-graphic), strong language.
ALL ROYALTIES earned from the title are donated to Doctors Without Borders, the Kurdish Red Crescent, and All for Armenia.
Título : Non Omnis Moriar
EAN : 9780645875652
Editorial : Lacrimosity and Righteous Rage Press
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