Archita Lakshmi is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and singer from India. As part of her artistic practice, Archita works with oral histories and autoethnographies to ponder questions of home, (be)longing, memory, love, and loss. She uses sound as an entry point into familial narratives, re-centering, retelling, and rewriting matrilineal histories. In her research, Archita studies the performance of desire and pleasure across music, performance art, visual culture, and popular media in the South Asian diaspora. By centering the fleshiness of sound, her work explores the ways in which minoritarian subjects perform refusal. Her areas of research include sound studies, diaspora studies, food studies, minoritarian performance theory, postcolonial theory, and queer of color critique. Archita holds a B.A. in Theater and Creative Writing from New York University Abu Dhabi. She is also a trained Indian classical singer, having trained in both Carnatic and Hindustani classical music styles.