I am a feminist organiser and an independent researcher-writer and consultant based in Pakistan, working across feminism, law, digital rights, and climate justice. I currently serve as Research and Knowledge Production Lead at the National Commission for Human Rights [NCHR] where my work focuses on rights-based, evidence-led institutional reform. I hold an MA in Gender Studies and Law from SOAS, University of London, completed on the Chevening Scholarship, where I was awarded the Programme Prize. My work sits at the intersection of research, writing, on-ground movement formations, and editorial practice, with a focus on feminist and leftist politics, critical legal analysis, climate and environmental governance, and technology.

I have also worked as an Associate Editor and Communications Director at South Asian Avant-Garde/SAAG, where I led editorial processes, communications, and overall publication strategy. I am currently working on my first non-fiction book.

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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

WRITING

After the March, SAAG (2025)

“When They Suffocate” in The Feminisms of Our Mothers, ed. Daanika Kamal, Zubaan Books (2024)

A Commitment to Creativity: The Online Aesthetics of Feminist LaborPart 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)