Circling The Periphery - Asil Sidahmed

​This seminar is for Newspeak House fellowship candidates, and will be recorded.

​From 2016-2021 Asil Sidahmed (asilsidahmed.com) worked as an advocacy specialist for Médecins Sans Frontières in Iraq, Lebanon, South Africa, Brasil, Belgium, Serbia, Cöte d’ivoire, Jordan, and Turkey, as well as for Sudan’s transitional government as a strategic advisor to the minister of health, focusing on policies including reproductive justice, sexual and gender based violence, humanitarian access to health care in emergencies, migration, democratic transition, epidemiology, LGBTQIA+, military negotiations surveillance, and more.

​In this seminar, Sidahmed will give an overview of her manuscript ‘Circling the Periphery’—recently shortlisted for a national award from the Wellcome Collection—which describes these experiences, touching on themes of borders, testimony, surveillance, reproductive justice, and feminist notions of representation in humanitarian health access.

​Part of a collaboration between Sidahmed and Newspeak House fellowship candidate Heather Allansdottir entitled “(Dis)Gendered bodies, Surveillance and the Law".

​The seminar seeks to be neurodivergent friendly so will incorporate an interactive element and welcome rest breaks and interruptions.