A Designer, Educator and Fashionista.
Looking for my next
opportunity
to make a change.
The disruptive way.
This is me
I am a design researcher and creative strategist. I bring a critically-informed approach to community-centered design that seeks to advance culturally thriving, regenerative, and sustainably empowering outcomes. Inside and out, I am an abolitionist at heart. I seek to articulate the ways in which carceral logics and discourses are reproduced in our lives, and dream of the ways in which we can liberate ourselves and reclaim the freedom to define our own realities. My work embodies the radical critique needed to disrupt oppressive systems and the speculative dreaming that is necessary to imagine new worlds.
Relational Design Emancipatory Research
Design Justice Trauma-Centered Practice
Decolonial Learning Creative Strategy
Speculative Futures Design Direction
I help individuals and communities engage
in creative liberation.
I am a brown, queer, Disabled, neurodivergent, Muslim, first-generation settler immigrant to the "United States", currently residing on the unceded lands of the Council of Three Fires (Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Odawa) and the Miami, Menominee, and Ho-Chunk Nations. I was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan and have ancestral lineages spread across Iran, Afghanistan, and India. I am trying to reclaim my Indigenous Parsi heritage, which has largely been eliminated by Eurocentric colonial legacies.
I am actively involved in political organizing and grassroots activism, primarily concerning police and prison abolition, militarism, decoloniality and land sovereignty, surveillance technologies, carceral mental health care, and Disability justice. I am persistently engaged in developing a pluriversal politic that strives for freedom and collective liberation. I believe that we are all interconnected and that transformation starts from within us- from one heart to another.
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