Shaista Latif
Shaista Latif is a Queer Afghan-Canadian artist, writer, and facilitator. Her works have been actively presented in Canada by festivals and platforms like Ontario Scene, SummerWorks, Halifax Queer Acts, and Why Not Theatre’s RISER Project. Latif’s work centres on exploring the politics of inclusion and advocating for spaces and processes that support agency and care. She was artist-in-residence at STO Union and was named a 2016 Siminovitch Protégé. Her play Graceful Rebellions was published in 2017.