Aisha Mirza

Aisha Mirza is a writer, DJ and community organizer living between a houseboat in London and an apartment in Brooklyn. They are the author of the viral essay White Women Drive Me Crazy They are also co-creator of the award-winning mental health charity and sober rave for QTIBIPOC, misery. Sign up to their newsletter, off-grid baby NOW! And follow them on Instagram so they too can get free shoes one day.

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Two images of the author, Aisha — a brown, tattooed person with short, blue hair that's parted down the middle — appear side by side. On the left, Aisha wears a pink medical gown, a white N95 mask, white socks, and black sneakers with teal laces. They lean against a table in a doctor's office. On the right, Aisha wears a blue medical gown while sitting in a chair in a hospital. They look down at their chest and hold it in their hands.

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Top Surgery, Magnolia Trees, and the Trans Art of Letting Go

What’s transness if not a long lesson in choosing which beautiful things are meant for you?

Aisha Mirza —

May 29, 2023

A Kind of Decolonization I Can Feel at the Back of My Pussy

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A Kind of Decolonization I Can Feel at the Back of My Pussy

On internal colonization, South Asian shame and representation of happy brown queers on film.

Aisha Mirza —

Feb 12, 2019