Notes regarding the Punjabi Sikh Power and Control Wheel:
This Wheel focuses on Punjabi Sikh women survivors in the U.S.
“Punjabi Sikh” refers to a unique cultural community, a people connected by ancestry in the Sikh faith and the geographic region of Punjab, South Asia. While Sikhs today live in various parts of India, South Asia, and the U.S., the majority find their ethnic ancestors—including Sikh Gurus–in Punjab and Punjabi culture.
The wheel was co-created by survivors—those who self-identified as female as well as Punjabi Sikh—who provided input through anonymous surveys as well as listening circles convened by Sikh Family Center. It also draws from the wisdom of various survivor-organizers at Sikh Family Center, the community-based organization that has served hundreds of Punjabi Sikh survivors since 2009.