Fatimah Asghar Speaks at Gray Colloquium

Poet, fiction writer, and filmmaker Fatimah Asghar addressed the St. Mark's community as part of the 2024-2025 Gray Colloquium Speaker Series on Thursday, April 17.

An artist who spans across different genres and themes, Asghar's first book of poems, If They Come For Us, explored themes of orphaning, family, Partition, borders, shifting identity, and violence. Along with Safia Elhillo, they co-edited Halal If You Hear Me, an anthology for Muslim people who are also women, trans, gender non-conforming, and/ or queer. The anthology was built around the radical idea that there are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslim people in the world. They also wrote and co-created Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendship among women of color. Their debut lyrical novel, When We Were Sisters, explores sisterhood, orphaning, and alternate family building, and was published in 2022.