فرقان محمد

She’s also writing about or occupied by all things culture, translation, kinship, and abolition. Her writing has appeared in Canthius, Feels Zine, Vainqueuer, C Mag, Maisonneuve, and The Local, where she was an inaugural Journalism Fellow.

Her poetry has been featured as part of an artist residency with the inPrint Collective in collaboration with Mackenzie House museum, and the Poems in Passage initiative. 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. Forever immersed in language, she currently works on sales and community for trace press, an independent publisher concerned with literary translation.

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.

She wants you to know she is firmly in the pocket of Big Child™ and is excited to be the 2025 Guest Curator for the Mayworks Festival, asking Who’s Afraid? of Labour Justice, reflecting on fear, alienation, and organizing in a month-long group exhibition at Charles Street Video (CSV).

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Tkaronto, where I am fortunate to commute to and spend most of my week at the University of Toronto to learn, love, eat, play, organize, and write, sits on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Indigenous peoples and families have lived with and cared for this land for thousands of years and continue to do so today. I am grateful for the land and its original caretakers, present-day stewards, and the reciprocal relationships I have formed, and am guided by a pedagogy and practice that recognizes the inherent dignity of all living people and things. As colonial projects continue at home and abroad, as we move towards a Free Palestine, Sudan, Yemen, and more, and as I work through my own commitments to the spaces and places I benefit from and show up in, especially within the academy, I encourage you to do the same. Wherever you go, what are you bringing with you? What are you taking? And what are you leaving for others? Do you know whose land you're living, working and playing on? Find out and continue your duty to learn at: https://native-land.ca/ Truth and Reconciliation Findings, Stories from Survivors and Calls to Action: http://www.trc.ca/about-us/trc-findings.html