Our Voices, Ourselves

Sehba Sarwar is a writer, multidisplinary artist, and activist, currently based in Houston, USA. She moves between the city of her birth, Karachi, Pakistan, where she spent the first half of her life in a home filled with artists, activists and educators, and her adopted city, Houston, where she has recreated a community similar to the one in which she was raised. Her writings have appeared in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines in India, Pakistan, and the US, and her work (writings, installations and videos) explore displacement and women’s issues, moving between South Asia and the USA.

 http://www.sehbasarwar.com

Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) is a grassroots nonprofit arts organization open to artists, individuals and organizations from a multitude of perspectives, backgrounds and countries. From a humble start in 2000, as a grassroots literary collective organized by Sehba Sarwar and five diverse women poets and writers hosting readings at a local bookstore, VBB now produces more than 10 performance events annually at local venues and offers educational residencies and performances to local youth and adults.

http://www.vbbarts.org