

Sarah Suhail, Ph.D.
she/her/hers
Member: QUAD Productions
Sarah Suhail is a scholar, human rights lawyer, activist, and community organizer, focusing mainly on land, labor, women, and queer rights. She is one of the newest member of QUAD Productions, although she began as a production assistant on Queer, Broke & Amazing!
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Sarah started her work as a movement lawyer in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2008, working with land and water rights movements in Southern Punjab, with indigenous fisher folk of the southern Indus, farmers within the peasant movement in Punjab, and those working to preserve the use of lands held in common; Hari women who escaped bonded labor in Sindh and Khawaja Sira and trans and queer communities struggling to survive the gender regime in Lahore. Along with her activist and research work, she has taught at the undergraduate level since 2008. Beginning at the Institute for Legal Studies (TILS) in Lahore, then to the larger universities in the city, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and finally, Information Technology University (ITU). She has taught in the fields of law, gender studies, Cultural studies, Justice Studies, Asian Asian American Studies, Sociology, and South Asian history, bringing together the intersections of land and labor rights, queer politics, feminist methodologies, and a deep grounding in the histories of multiple regions as they are impacted by colonialism, settler and neo-colonialism and multiple forms of imperialisms. She is also an advocate of the Lahore High Court and works as a free-lance advocate for refugees in the global north. She currently lives between Phoenix and Lahore.
She is also a freelance asylum advocate for refugees in the global north. Sarah has taught at the undergraduate level since 2008 in Pakistan and the US. Currently, she works as a Lecturer of Justice Studies.