She is also a writer and educator who is interested in all things popular culture, diaspora, kinship, and abolition. Her work has appeared in publications such as mimp magazine, Canthius, 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. 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.