I am a feminist organiser and an independent researcher-writer & consultant based in Islamabad, Pakistan, with an undergraduate degree in law. Between 2018 and 2019, I did my MA in Gender Studies and Law at SOAS, University of London on the Chevening Scholarship, and won the Programme Prize for my degree.

My work is interdisciplinary in nature and mostly revolves around feminism, pop culture, critical legal studies, and the internet. I was part of the South Asia Speaks 2022 cohort and am currently working on my first non-fiction book. I also serve as the Associate Editor and Communications Director at South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG). In the mornings, I work at the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), Pakistan, as their Research and Knowledge Production Lead.

Email me to get in touch or commission work.

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Research & Knowledge Production Lead → NCHR

  • Associate Editor & Communications Director → SAAG

  • Communication Advisor (Energy & Climate Change Cluster) → Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

  • Research Lead (Digital Rights and Internet Governance) → Media Matters for Democracy (MMfD)

  • Senior Researcher → Digital Rights Foundation (DRF)

  • Researcher → Gender Studies Department, Allama Iqbal Open University

  • Manager GenderTech → Bytes for All

  • Law Clerk → Supreme Court of Pakistan

  • Program Officer (Communications & Law) → Shirkat Gah

  • Communications Executive → Bulleh Shah Packaging

  • Subeditor + Staff Writer → Libas International Magazine

  • Project Specialist → Publicis Pakistan

  • Subeditor → Daily Times

  • Senior Copywriter → Manhattan Pakistan

Published Work

 

RESEARCH

The Right to Health, A People’s Manifesto, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (2024)

Connecting the Disconnected: Mapping Gaps in Digital Access in Pakistan, MMfD (2022)

Women Disconnected: Feminist Case Studies on the Gender Digital Divide Amidst COVID-19, MMfD (2021)


Ride-sharing Apps and Privacy in Pakistan: A Detailed Study on the Practices of Uber and Careem, DRF (2019)

The Implications of the ‘Khaki V Rawalpindi’ Decision on Pakistan’s Transgender Community, PCL Student Journal of Law, Vol. 1 (2017)

Online Feminist Resistance in Pakistan, Sur International Journal on Human Rights (December, 2017)

Privacy and Online Gender Rights Activism: A Pakistani Perspective, Privacy International (2016)

Take Back the Tech! A Story of Gender Rights and Online Spaces in Pakistan, FORUM-ASIA (2015)

WRITING

After the March — SAAG (2025)

A Commitment to Creativity: The Online Aesthetics of Feminist Labor — Part 1 & Part 2, GenderIT.org (2022)

A Dispatch from Pakistan, The Drift (2022)

Feminist Protests Are Only the Beginning, Studio ATAO (2022)

Platforms of Oppression: Conceptualising Digital Colonialism in the Pakistani Context, Digital Rights Monitor (2022)

Moral Governance & the Gendered Body in Pakistan’s Online Spaces, Digital 50.50 (2021)

How a Provincial Law on the Protection of Journalists is Paving a New Path in Pakistan, Digital Rights Monitor (2021) 

Feminist Digital Labor in Pakistan, DRF (2020)  

Sita Under the Crescent Moon, Chapati Mystery (2019)

Feminist Memories in the Digital Age, Media Matters for Democracy (2019)

Cause Celebre, The News on Sunday (2018)

Relax, Malala's jeans aren't an assault on your national identity, DAWN Images (2017)

Ayesha Gulalai is paying the price for decrying harassment publicly, DAWN (2017)

Review: Slowspin - Nightfall’s Reverie, Border Movement (2014)

Review: Toll Crane - Pink Passport EP, Border Movement (2013)

Liberty Calling (An Interview with Sarah Belal), Libas International Magazine (2012)

Coke Studio: Season 5 and Gender, Libas International Magazine (2012)

Coke Studio: The Rumbling & Buzzing of Soul Rock, Libas International Magazine (2012)