Sa’dia and Bushra Rehman in Conversation

Sa’dia Rehman (they/them) explores how contemporary and historical images communicate, consolidate, and contest ideas about race, empire, and labor. Rehman has exhibited work at venues including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Museum, Kentler International Drawing Space, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and Pakistan National Council of the Arts, among others. Rehman received the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship and the Meredith Morabito and Henrietta Mantooth Full Fellowship and was awarded several residencies. Rehman’s work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail, New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Hyperallergic, Colorlines, and Art Papers. Learn more on Sa’dia Rehman’s website.

Bushra Rehman (she/her) is the author of the novels Corona (2013) and Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (2022),  as well as the poetry collection  Marianna’s Beauty Salon (2018). In collaboration with writer Daisy Hernández, she created the anthology  Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (2019). Rehman’s writing has been featured on BBC Radio 4, WNYC, and KPFA and in the New York Times; India Currents; Crab Orchard Review; Sepia Mutiny; Colorlines; The Feminist Wire; and Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America. Her new novel, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, is a modern classic about what it means to be Muslim and queer in a Pakistani-American community. Learn more on Bushra Rehman’s website.