Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
A.B.D.
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Ph.D. Candidate. Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Oregon State University. Trans of Color Critiques (concentration). Queer Studies (minor).
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2017
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M.A. Gender & Cultural Studies. Simmons University. Constructing the Queer Muslim: The Necropolitics of Racialization & Western Sexual Exceptionalism in the Lives of LGBTQ+ Muslims [Thesis]
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2015
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B.S. Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies. Clarkson University. Gender & Sexuality Studies (concentration).
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PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Publications
2021
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An extension of an ongoing haunted queer diasporic kinship practice, this piece consists of letter-poems written to the author’s ancestor, Shauki Masi, who passed away several years ago. In this way, the author offers queer Muslim meditations on the five pillars of Islam: salat (ritual of daily prayer), zakat (alms), sawm (ramzaan), hajj (pilgrimage), and shahadah (declaration of faith). The five pillars of Islam offer a praxis through which Muslims can (re)balance their relationships, communities, and therefore the world. |
2020
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In this project, I provide a "medicinal history" (Morales 1998) of my experiences of disability, Madness, and medical abuse, offering a creative format for archiving the past in order to craft healing futures. Weaving stories together with a rag doll index of myself, I craft my own "theory in the flesh," (Moraga and Anzaldúa 2015, 19) a counternarrative of resistance to interlocking systems of oppression grounded in my own lived experience as a queer, non-binary, mixed-race, desi, disabled, Mad, femme of color. By tracing white supremacist, colonial, heteropatriarchal, ableist, and saneist violence onto my body, I reimagine the ways that embodied traumas can morph to become possibilities for generative healing praxes. "Autoimmune" is a story of disabled and mad becoming, of the unspooling of the self and ableist/sanist definitions of (dis)ability and madness, and of the restorying of disability and madness through a praxis of kinship. |
2019
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The Medical Industrial Complex (MIC) frames pathologization as “care” in the best interests of the patient. This is a performance piece that theorizes the rhetoric of pathologization through a scripted conversation between Doctor and patient. Drawing on our lived experiences as disabled, Mad, and/or neurodivergent people, we offer this exchange to resist compulsory able-bodymindedness that pathologizes non-normative bodyminds and interlocks with other systems of oppression. By bridging our experiences, we craft a coalitional resistance to the MIC that is grounded in genealogies of women of color feminisms, queer and trans of color critiques, and Disability Justice. |
Textbook Sidebars
2019
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Khan, Sasha A. "Western Sexual Exceptionalism." In Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions (7th edition), edited by Janet Lee and Susan Shaw. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Khan, Sasha A. "Queer/Trans Muslim Activism." In Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions (7th edition), edited by Janet Lee and Susan Shaw. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. |
Book Reviews
Manuscripts in Submission
2024
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Stallworth, Rebecca, Diane Maurici-Pollock, and Sasha A. Khan. "What We Talk About When We Talk About First-Generation Students: Exploring Definitions in Use on College and University Websites." College & Research Libraries. *Forthcoming*
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AWARDS & HONORS
2022-24
2018
2017
2015-17
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Merit-Based Graduate Student Assistantship ($41,000 package). School of Library & Information Science. Simmons University.
Graduate Student Travel Grant ($400). The Center for the Humanities. Oregon State University.
PCOSW Scholarship ($200). Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. Oregon State University.
Merit-Based Graduate Student Scholarship ($14,000). Department of Critical Race, Gender, & Cultural Studies. Simmons University.
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2015
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Hazel Dick Leonard Fellowship ($2,500). Simmons University.
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PRESENTATIONS
Papers
2024
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Gupshup with Ghosts: A Haunted Praxis of Embodied Storytelling. 20th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Virtual Presentation: May 2024.
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2020
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Queer Diasporic Poetics: Disrupting Projects of Occupation in and beyond South Asia. Colonial Geographies: Queer Transnational Feminist Imaginaries. National Women’s Studies Association. Minneapolis, MN: November 2020. (When the conference was postponed due to the pandemic, my presentation was cancelled because of a scheduling conflict.)
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2020
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Autoimmunity: A Reflection on Crip/Mad Epistemology and Kinship. Maddening/Cripping Scholarship-Activism: Pursuing the Radical Political Potential of Mad Studies and Disability Studies. Society for Disability Studies. Columbus, OH: April 2020. (The conference was converted to a virtual format due to the pandemic.)
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2019
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Crazy Quilt: Crip/Mad Embodied Storytelling through Spacetime. Cracked Method/ologies: Ancestrally Ascendantly Co-Created Work as Mad Cripistemologies. National Women’s Studies Association. San Francisco, CA: November 2019.
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2019
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Diasporic World-Making: Queer/Trans Muslim Storytelling. Queer/Trans Muslim Storytelling: Resistant Pasts, Presents, and Futures. National Women’s Studies Association. San Francisco, CA: November 2019.
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2019
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Reconfiguring the ‘Terrorist’ as ‘Pathan’: A Maddened Politics of Fugitivity. Association for Asian American Studies. Madison, WI: April 2019.
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2018
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Autoimmune: A ‘Medicinal History’ of Embodied Trauma in the Medical-Industrial Complex. Embodied Rememberings of Healing: Disrupting Settler Temporalities Across Spacetime. National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA: November 2018.
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2018
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Autoimmune: Unruliness in the Medical-Industrial Complex. Queering Care and Cure. Queer Feminist and Trans Studies Research Cluster. UC Davis. Davis, CA: May 2018.
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2018
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A Queer Crip Mad Critique of the Medical-Industrial Complex [Co-Presented]. Insecurities in the Flesh: Navigating the Medical-Industrial Complex. 37th Annual Gender Studies Symposium. Lewis and Clark College. Portland, OR: March 2018
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2017
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The Erotic as Resistance to Settler Colonial Heteropatriarchy in Sovereign Erotics. Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. 38th Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM: February 2017
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2016
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Transgender-Inclusive Young Adult Literature. Trans* Studies: An International Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality. Transgender Studies Initiative. Institute for LGBT Studies. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ: September 2016
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Roundtables
2019
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Am I Doing It Right? Interrupting Internalized Institutionality as WGSS Doctoral Students. National Women’s Studies Association. San Francisco, CA: November 2019.
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Workshops & Trainings
2019
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Beyond Disposability: Transformative Justice as ‘Ordinary’ Care Work [Co-Facilitated]. 38th Annual Gender Studies Symposium. Lewis and Clark College. Portland, OR: March 2019.
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Campus Talks
2020
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Mad Studies/Mad Scholars: Ideas Matter Public Lecture Series. School of History, Philosophy, & Religion and the OSU Disability Network. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: May 25, 2020. (This event was cancelled due to the pandemic.)
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2019
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A Genealogy of Un/belonging for Trans Studies. Graduate Student Trans Studies Panel with Dr. Susan Stryker. Moderated by Dr. H. Rakes’ QS 573: Trans Lives. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: January 2019.
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2018
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The Im/Possibility of Care: A Roundtable. Disability Studies Research Cluster. The Center for the Humanities. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: October 2018.
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TEACHING
Instructor of Record
Oregon State University
Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Introduction to Queer Studies
Disney: Gender, Race, Empire
Systems of Oppression
Gender & Transnational Studies
- Online: Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020
Introduction to Queer Studies
- F2F: Fall 2018
- Online: Fall 2019
Disney: Gender, Race, Empire
- F2F: Winter 2019
- Online: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2020
Systems of Oppression
- Online: Fall 2020
Gender & Transnational Studies
- Online: Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant
Oregon State University
Women in World Cinema
- F2F: Fall 2017 (Dr. Mehra Shirazi)
Simmons University
Transnational Studies
- F2F: Spring 2016 (Dr. Jyoti Puri)
LANGUAGES
English -- Fluent
German -- Conversational
Urdu -- Conversational
Arabic -- Basic
German -- Conversational
Urdu -- Conversational
Arabic -- Basic
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