Just before I began the Belonging/Disbelonging residency, a wave of transphobia began sweeping Pakistan, instigated by a celebrity designer and a religious political party. This anti-trans brigade (as I like to call it) parroted Western anti-trans talking points whilst simultaneously calling Pakistan’s millennia-old indigenous trans culture a Western cultural invasion. I initially intended to focus … Continue reading Sophia-Layla Afsar: Belonging/Disbelonging