Ashna Ali (she/they) is a Best-of-the-Net-nominated, diasporic Bangladeshi poet, educator, and cultural critic based in Brooklyn. Raised in Italy, they are queer and disabled.
Swati Shastry (she/her) is a South Indian law student who was diagnosed with Leukemia a few years ago.
Oral History Interview
Oral history interview conducted by Archival Creators Fellow Nureena Faruqi.
Anonymous (they/them) is a multiply disabled, nonbinary, queer Iraqi and Pakistani Muslim. They are autistic and live with POTS and hEDS. They are a wheelchair user working in the nonprofit sector in the DC area.
A.K. (They/Them) is a queer Black and Bangladeshi activist and caregiver. A significant part of their spirituality is rooted in and/ or has histories in South Asia. Based in Philadelphia, PA, they are neurodivergent and live with mental illness, chronic fatigue, and mobility issues.
Saif (he/him) is a practicing attorney based in the US. He has a North Indian background and has lived with Ankylosing Spondylitis since the age of 12.
Per the interviewee's request, this oral history is provided in text format.
Instagram Post by Sara Naveed
An Instagram post by Fabulous.and.Fatigued featuring a photo of a blue Sunbeam heating pad, placed next to a closed window.
Caption States:
Flier of Sara Naveed
Screenshot from Sara Naveed’s Instagram: fabulous.and.fatigued.
Screenshot features a flier for the Wonder Women Tech Virtual Summit.
It has a neon green background with a monochrome photo of Sara, a Pakistani woman with long brown wavy hair in the forefront laughing and holding a bouquet of flowers.
Text Messages of Swati Shastry
This image is a text conversation - it starts with a picture of a PCR test for COVID where the test results read NEGATIVE.
The sender of the picture says "negative QUEEN. sparkle emoji, loving face emoji."
The receiver replies "NeGATIVE VIBES ONLYYY".
The sender replies "I also took a rapid just for extra data. So all negative all in the clearrr".
