Selected Work

Journalism, features, interviews

• Activism is a verb: interviews with pro-Palestinian organisers (Jom, 2025)
• A Woman's World: Creating spaces for joy, leisure, and resistance in South and Southeast Asia (Kontinentalist, 2023)
• Breaking the “Indian Stereotype” Gaze Through Odissi (Association of Women for Action and Research, Singapore, 2023)
• How dancer Sheema Kermani defied Pakistan’s conservatives to infuse her art with activism (Scroll, 2022)
• “The idea of home is always a fragile one”: an interview with Tishani Doshi (Asian Review of Books, 2020; originally published in Jaggery Lit Journal)

Poetry & Performances

• Silos / Renga (The Mekong Review, 2024)
• Temporary Homes (Esplanade, Theatres On The Bay, 2023)
• 'The Trial' by The Millennials (Grand Poetry Tournament, Singapore, 2023)
• Born A Woman (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, Germany, 2020)

Research

• Role of philanthropy in sustaining ethnic-minority performing arts companies in Singapore (Teater Ekamatra, 2024, Publishing date TBD)
• Gaza Lives - Resisting Cultural Genocide (Kontinentalist, 2024)
• Children's Voices Report - What Matters to Our Children? (Playeum, 2025)

Fact-checking

• The Patriarchs - How Men Came to Rule / The Origins of Inequality (Angela Saini, 2023)
• The Billionaire Raj - A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age (James Crabtree, 2018)

I'm currently on a break, but you can write to me at mariyam.raza19@gmail.com.