Approach:
My work is deeply rooted in lived experience and grounded in the diaspora. I believe intersectional folks are natural storytellers, yet colonialism and elitism have shaped a world where certain stories are upheld as more valuable than others—evident in the western literary canon, media, and societal discourse.
In the spaces I curate, I intentionally centre creative practices – especially writing and poetry, to challenge these hierarchies. Collective singing is incredibly powerful too, and I’ve started to experiment with music facilitation – watch this space!
Intersectional folks are powerful, and our stories are needed now, more than ever. We should all feel confident in telling them.
Workshops:
For several years, I’ve been designing and delivering bespoke workshops within different spaces and with varying audiences.
Intersectionality in Healthcare:
- Rethinking Endometriosis: Intersectionality and New Perspectives with The Social SciencEs Endometriosis Network (SEEN)
- PCOS at the Intersections: Does Race Impact our Experiences of PCOS? with Cysters & DAISy-PCOS Programme
Creative Workshops:
- Chronically Creative Zine Workshop with Cysters and Juice Magazine
- Where We Find Ourselves: Writing The Diaspora & Where We Find Ourselves: Diaspora Poems and Stories with Arachne Press
- “The Good Immigrant” Reading Circle with Vision Central Libraries
- Space Place and Belonging for Dhaga’s Sustainable Futures Exhibition, Queer Brown Stories Project,, PIRC, Arachne Press
- The Stories That Speak Through Us: Reclaiming Lost Narratives with Queer Coffee Link Ups & Aaran Sian, as part of Culture Leicestershire’s Villiers Revealed project
Singing & Music Facilitation
- Make Your Mark for Dhaga Art UK
- Somatic Songwriting at PIRC’s Building Our Narrative Power Residential
Notable Projects and Roles:
- Recipient of QND Creative Mentoring Initiative with Mainspring Arts for neurodivergent creatives: working on scriptwriting and producing (2024)
- Participant in Public Interest Research Centre’s Building Our Narrative Power Cohort (2024)
- Racial Justice Engagement Officer at Consortium LGBT+ (2022 – 2024)
- Part of Dhaga’s Core and Curatorial Team, including Queer Brown Stories & You Can Sit With Us Exhibition, Editor for Sustainable Futures Exhibition (2023 – Present Day)
- Being invited to speak at the Reframing Endometriosis: Power, Politics and Potential Futures Conference, run by The British Academy & Wellcome Trust Conferences on Endometriosis and Intersectionality (2023)
- Co-editor of Pardesi’s Global Queer South Asian Zine: To Love Is To Hope (2023)
- Part of Poets for Partition poetry collective headed by award winning poet Zainab Imran (2022)
- Co-editor of Cysters & Juice Magazine’s mini-zine ‘Chronically Creative‘ (2022)
- Filming a segment for The House of Commons Petition Committee about living with PCOS & Endometriosis (2022) – see below
- Becoming a Trustee of Cysters (2021-2023)
- Other notable collaborators include The Unmistakables on behalf of Spark & Co for Macmillan UK and Vision Redbridge Central Libraries.