Artistic Works
performances, readings + installations
Dec 2011: Documentary screening and panel discussion about Voices Breaking Boundaries' fall season opener Third Worlds: Third Ward/Karachi, T2F, Karachi, Pakistan.
Oct + Nov 2011: Produced and co-curated Third Worlds: Third Ward/Karachi, Voices Breaking Boundaries, Houston, TX.
Oct 2011: Reading for the Eastern Mennonite University's Language & Literature Department's Writers' Read Series, Harrisonburg, VA.
Jul 2011: Poetry performance at La Luz for Macondo Writers' Workshop, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX.
May 2011: Poetry performance at the Art Car Parade with fellow artists on VBB's car Revolution, Houston, TX.
Mar 2011: Video screenings and participation in panel discussion Women Speak on Global Citizenry at Bronx Community College, New York, NY.
Jan 2011: Reading at VBB's What's Color Got to Do With It? Talking About Interracial Partnerships, Houston, TX.
Nov 2010: Site-specific installation, breaking silences / bearing witness / claiming dignity, at Voices Breaking Boundaries 2010-11 Season Opener Women's Voices, Houston, TX.
May 2010: Co-created an art car, Digital Meets Pakistani Truck Art, for a Voices Breaking Boundaries' living room art production Art Car Sprawl in the First Ward and the Art Car Parade, Houston, TX.
Mar 2010: Readings and Panel at Karachi Literature Festival, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mar 2010: International Women's Day Creative Writing Workshop and Reading with Michelle Otero at El Paso Community College, Valle Verde Campus, El Paso, TX.
Nov 2009: Site-specific installation, Listening from Within, at Voices Breaking Boundaries’ 2009-10 season opener, Living Room Art :: Honoring Dissent / Descent, Houston, TX.
Oct 2010: Short video collage Why Are You Looking at Me Like That? screening at the 4th Cairo Film Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
Jul 2009: Reading at Cafe Luna, Macondo Writers' Workshop's Cafe Nostalgia, San Antonio, TX.
May 2009: Screened a short video collage Seeking Solidarity at Voices Breaking Boundaries' East End Live Art production Artists / Mothers, Houston, TX.
Mar 2009: Reading at Callaloo conference Callaloo Salutes Texas Writers, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX.
Jan 2009: Screening of video collage "Why Are You Looking At Me Like That?" at the Jaipur International Film Festival, Jaipur, India.
Jan 2009: Reading and panel discussion at T2F for And the World Changed book launch, Oxford University Press, Pakistan, T2F, Karachi, Pakistan.
Jan 2009: Reading and discussion at Islamabad Club, Pakistan (organized by the US Department of Cultural Affairs), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Dec 2008: Reading and panel discussion for And the World Changed book launch, Feminist Press, New York, NY.
Nov 2008: Screened a video collage "Why Are You Looking At Me Like That?"at Voices Breaking Boundaries Pakistan Live Broadcast show, Houston, TX.
Oct 2008: Reading for the Duke University’s Women’s Center, Durham, NC.
Oct 2008: Reading to launch And the World Changed at Art League Houston, Houston, TX.
Sep 2008: Created and installed a site-specific video collage, Seeking Solidarity, at Voices Breaking Boundaries living room art production, Brown in the Third Ward.
May 2008: Reading and performance at BookWoman, Austin, TX.
Apr 2008: Reading at Indie Book Festival, Houston, TX.
Jan 2008: Reading at Second Floor Coffee Shop, Karachi, Pakistan.
Nov 2007: Reading at University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Aug 2007: Reading at University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Aug 2007: Reading at Second Floor Coffee Shop, Karachi, Pakistan.
Jun 2007: Featured author at Space125 Gallery hosted by Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX.
Mar 2007: Featured artist at Howls in the Desert: A Reading by Mujeres Escritoras in Honor of Women's History Month at El Paso Community College’s Spring 2007 Arts Festival., El Paso, TX.
Mar 2007: Reading and panel on “The Imagination of Displacement” at Association for Writers and Writing Programs, Atlanta, GA.
Feb 2007: Performance for Voices Breaking Boundaries’ Un/Natural Disaster: Katrina-Kashmir, Houston, TX.
May 2006: Performance for Voices Breaking Boundaries’ season closing, Words for Peace, Houston, TX.
Mar 2006: Reading and panel at “South Asian Writers Speak: Women, War and Trauma” hosted by South Asia Institute and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX.
Mar 2006 Reading and panel on “De-Scribing Empire: Writing War” at Association for Writers and Writing Programs, Austin, TX.
Jan 2006: Poetry performance at Dosti 2006: A Forum on Peace and Development in South Asia, Rice University, Houston, TX.
Jul 2005: Literary reading from Black Wings, Pakistan.
Mar 2005: Reading and panel on “History Adrift: Fictional Worlds and Imagined Realities” at Association for Writers and Writing Programs, Vancouver, Canada.
Feb 2005: Literary reading from novel Black Wings at Voices Breaking Boundaries’ five-year anniversary celebration, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
Mar 2004: Reading and panel on “Pakistanis Writing in English” at Association for Writers and Writing Programs, Chicago, IL.
Sep 2003: Spoken word performance at Voices Breaking Boundaries’ Season Opener, Words for Peace, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
Feb 2000: Monthly performances at various venues as Voices Breaking Boundaries’ co-Founder, Borders Books, DiverseWorks and Inprint Inc., Houston, TX.
Oct 2001: Literary reading at “Trying to Praise the Mutilated World” at Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX.
May 2001: Literary reading for Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, Talento Bilingue de Houston, Houston, TX.
Apr 2001: Reading at Houston International Poetry festival (HIP), Mausoleum Café, Houston, TX.
Mar 2001 Featured writer at International Women’s Month celebration at University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX.
Nov 2000 Performed poetry at the Orange Show, Houston, TX.
Apr 2000: Performed poetry at Houston International Poetry (HIP) Festival.
Aug 1999: Recorded short fiction for DiverseWorks’ PhoneWorks., Houston.
Jun 1996: Reading from Black Wings and led a teacher training workshop for Common Ground, University of Houston, TX.
May 1994 Reading and teacher training, Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers (SPELT), Karachi, Pakistan.