فرقان محمد

Other times, she’s writing about or occupied by all things culture, translation, kinship, and abolition. Her work has appeared in mimp magazine, Canthius, Feels Zine, Vainqueuer, Maisonneuve, and The Local, where she was an inaugural Journalism Fellow.

Her latest artistic works include creating and building the reading series, Who’s Afraid?, an episode of Dreams in Vantablack, streaming now on CBC Gem, and an artist residency at the inPrint Collective in collaboration with the Mackenzie House museum. On your Toronto commute, you can catch her poem on any number of TTC subway cars and busses as part of the Poems in Passage initiative.

Furqan previously split her time between facilitating creative writing workshops for students across the Toronto District School Board through the non-profit, Story Planet, helping to design the Lost & Found curriculum for the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation, and anti-oppression organizing while on the board of OPIRG Toronto. Her debut chapbook collection of poetry and prose, a small homecoming, was published by Party Trick Press in 2021.

Furqan earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA) from the University of Toronto and is presently a Master of Arts in Child Study & Education (MA CSE) candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

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Tkaronto, where I am fortunate to commute to and spend most of my week at the University of Toronto to learn, love, eat, play, organize, and write, sits on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Indigenous peoples and families have lived with and cared for this land for thousands of years and continue to do so today. I am grateful for the land and its original caretakers, present-day stewards, and the reciprocal relationships I have formed, and am guided by a pedagogy and practice that recognizes the inherent dignity of all living people and things. As colonial projects continue at home and abroad, as we move towards a Free Palestine, Sudan, Yemen, and more, and as I work through my own commitments to the spaces and places I benefit from and show up in, especially within the academy, I encourage you to do the same. Wherever you go, what are you bringing with you? What are you taking? And what are you leaving for others? Do you know whose land you're living, working and playing on? Find out and continue your duty to learn at: https://native-land.ca/ Truth and Reconciliation Findings, Stories from Survivors and Calls to Action: http://www.trc.ca/about-us/trc-findings.html