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    THE QUEER CANON

    May 21, 2019 3 minutes
    As told to Fran Tirado.
    Illustrated by Ari Liloan

     IFTI NASIM

    ot a day goes by that I don’t think of the lineage of the queer ancestors that fuels my practice today. To discover Ifti Nasim, an openly gay Pakistani-American immigrant poet who wrote of queer love in our native tongue of Urdu, was mind-blowing. Between starting Sangat, a South Asian LGBTQ+ youth organization and his lifetime of charismatic activism, there is a bright reflection of my community in his magnificent truth.

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