Aaysha Memon (she/her)

Bio

Aaysha Memon is a second-year Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies major at California State University, Long Beach. She is interested in social work, filmmaking, women’s health, and advocacy. Growing up, she actively listened to the women in her community and relatives who face gendered violence, domestic assault, neglected health, and injustices on a daily basis all over the world. She aspires to tackle injustice towards women as well as contributing to community resources that address the neglect in healthcare towards women and non-binary people. She hopes to (un)learn more and engage more with community activism and community healing.

Solidarity Arts Fellowship reflection

“From this fellowship, I learned what community healing is and what it feels like: an acknowledgement and embrace of all the light and shadow making up your soul. I learned about histories I never knew about and a new perspective of faith. Most importantly I learned about current community action and movement towards justice and liberation through solidarity and collective actions. It feels like this fellowship was a piece of a puzzle in my life that tied so many people, events, and places together in my life that I didn’t realize connected. It made me feel a little more whole.”

Object of resilience

“A picture of nani ma and nana abu moving into the flat my nani ma still lives in.”