Episode 219 [in English]: Nahid

The Queer Arabs

Nahid is a Sudanese artist and activist with a background in theater, music, education, and human rights work. Nahid talks about her current experience caretaking for her grandmother and how skills from working with children transfer to elder care. She also discusses her childhood experience of displacement, moving from Sudan to Yemen and then Western Massachusetts following her father’s persecution and torture for his human rights advocacy under the Bashir regime. Nahid recounts her early experiences in the arts, being introduced to political theater at an early age, and then being one of the few people of color and “not…