ABOUT
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Sasha A. Khan (@sashathechurel) is an incoming PhD student in the Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies doctoral program at Texas Woman's University. They divide their time between the United States (TX, MA) and their hometown of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Published in various academic journals, Sasha's scholarship can be accessed through any of the following links. "Letter-Poems to Shauki Masi: Diasporic Queer South Asian Muslim Reflections on the Five Pillars of Islam" was published in Meridians in 2021. Their textile-essay, "Autoimmune: A 'Medicinal History,'" is featured in Disability Studies Quarterly in 2020. With Lzz Johnk, Sasha is the co-author of "'Cripping the Fuck Out': A Queer Crip Mad Manifesta Against the Medical-Industrial Complex", which was published in 2019 in Feral Feminisms. Other publications include a 2018 book review in Feminist Formations and textbook sidebars in the 7th edition of Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions, edited by Janet Lee and Susan Shaw. They also contributed to an article published in College & Research Libraries in 2025. Most recently, Sasha presented "Gupshup with Ghosts: A Haunted Praxis of Embodied Storytelling" at the virtual congress of the 20th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (2024). In the past, they have presented conference papers, facilitated workshops, and participated in roundtables at various academic conferences including the National Women's Studies Association (2020, 2019, 2018), the Society for Disability Studies (2020), the Association for Asian American Studies (2019), Lewis & Clark's Annual Gender Studies Symposium (2019, 2018), UC Davis' Queering Care & Cure conference (2018), the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (2017), and Arizona State University's Trans*Studies conference (2016). Sasha went to the United States to attend college at the age of 15. They accumulated several degrees including a B.S. in Liberal Studies from Clarkson University and a M.A. in Gender & Cultural Studies from Simmons University. Sasha was a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University until they withdrew in complaint in 2020. Click here for Sasha's CV.Academic BiographySasha A. Khan (@sashathechurel) is an incoming PhD student in Multicultural Women's & Gender Studies at Texas Woman's University. Their work can be read in Meridians, Disability Studies Quarterly, Feral Feminisms, Feminist Formations, and College & Research Libraries.
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a head-and-shoulders photograph of a fat south asian non-binary femme sitting in front of a window wearing a black and gold lehenga, pendant, and red glasses taken by Evan J. Freshman
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