This paper examines the curation of a month-long public exhibition titled #AanaJaana [#ComingGoing] in one of New Delhi’s busiest metro stations, as a form of self-authorship by young women from its digital and urban margins. #AanaJaana [#ComingGoing] is a metaphor for journeys, communications, connections, associations, interceptions, social networks and individual/collective behaviours, that is curated as women ‘see’ and ‘speak’ with/through their mobile phones. Using Marie Louise Pratt’s notion of ‘contact zone’, we examine #AanaJaana as a space of encounters that emerges by visually ‘composing-with’ as well as ‘learning-with’ the realities and constraints of space, technology and power. Based on self-authorship over a period of 6 months within a ‘safe space’ of a WhatsApp group of young women living in the urban margins, we draw attention to #AanaJaana as a set of crosscutting networks of power dynamics over women’s bodies across the home, mobile phone and the city. #AanaJaana refers to how young women in the margins negotiate the ‘freedoms’ of moving (aana) in online space with the ‘dangers’ of going out (jaana) into the city, or the restrictions of entering (aana) online space with the freedom of leaving (jaana) home. We argue first, that #AanaJaana is a space of confinement because of the infrastructural paralysis in the peripheries. Second that it is also at the same time translocally produced by referencing several textual, digital and material spaces of self-realisation. Finally, we argue that #AanaJaana is a space of intertextuality through encounters between emojis, shorthand, voice notes on the mobile phone, with parody and dark humour of their gendered experiences that can transform shame, humiliation and fear into reflection, resistance and agency. The paper concludes that as a polycentric practice, #AanaJaana offers an appropriate metaphor to expand the ‘contact zone’ in order to decolonise gendered knowledge and power across digital-analogue margins.

本文研究了在新德里最繁忙的地铁站之一举办的名为“ #AanaJaana [#ComingGoing]”的为期一个月的公共展览的策划，这是年轻妇女自其数字和城市边缘的一种自我创作的形式。#AanaJaana [#ComingGoing]是旅途，通讯，联系，协会，拦截，社交网络和个人/集体行为的隐喻，被策划为女性通过手机“看见”和“讲话”的地方。使用玛丽·路易斯·普拉特（Marie Louise Pratt）的“接触区”概念，我们将#AanaJaana视作一个相遇空间，它是通过视觉上的“与……组合”以及“学习与”空间，技术和力量的现实和约束而出现的。根据在WhatsApp居住在城市边缘的年轻女性群体的“安全空间”内六个月内的自我创作，我们提请注意#AanaJaana，它是一套横跨家庭，移动电话和城市的女性身体上的动力动力学交叉网络。#AanaJaana指的是边缘地区的年轻女性如何与（jaana）进入城市的“危险”谈判在线空间（aana）的“自由”，或与（jaana）进入（aana）网络空间的限制进行谈判。离开（贾安娜）回家的自由。我们首先争论，＃AanaJaana是一个封闭的空间，因为周围的基础设施瘫痪了。其次，它同时也是通过参照几个自我实现的文本，数字和物质空间而跨地域产生的。最后，我们认为#AanaJaana是通过手机上的表情符号，速记，语音注释之间的相遇而互为文本的空间，模仿和暗淡幽默的性别体验，可以将羞辱，屈辱和恐惧转化为反思，抵抗和代理。本文的结论是，＃AanaJaana作为一种多中心实践，提供了一个适当的隐喻来扩展“接触区”，从而在数字模拟边界上非殖民化性别化的知识和力量。