jASmine isa qureshi

A flickering stop sign at dusk…car headlights jumping in and out of focus…littering the roadside with warnings to flies on their hover speed…the strangest feeling comes over me. I am…an extra in this ridiculously over-budgeted movie and the director won’t stop yelling cut… OK, here we go. Sorry about that. It was supposed to sketch […]

The article below was written for the Changing Perspectives series, which I was interviewed for a few months ago, here is a link to the original article: Changing Perspectives in the Countryside: Dawood Qureshi Written by Nicola Minney. As part of The MERL’s Building Connections project (funded by Arts Council England), we have sought to explore different […]

I wrote this article for AURELIA Magazine; you may view this article, and many others that deal with issues surrounding marginalised genders and ethnicities, on their website here – https://aureliamagazine.com/climate-conversation-trans-poc/ My hands gripped the cardboard sign firmly, fingertips boring into the sides. I lifted it high, a heady mix of euphoria and frustration bloomed between […]

Throughout history, the intelligence of organisms has always been questioned. How something that is considered alive thinks, is famously what has given humanity power, leadership, and the ability to reign supreme over all other species… I wrote this article for Bloom in Doom magazine, as can be seen here: https://www.bloomindoom.com/environment/intelligence-organismss We consider ourselves an intelligent […]

The reason I was first interested in studying marine biology at university, a few years ago now, was to try to understand the link between cetacean intelligence and communication…I find these animals the most fascinating of all, and the chance to write about them and their incredible “speech” presented itself in the form of Bloom […]

I was asked a few weeks back to write an article for Wild Women Press, in the form of a Wild Women thread for their Web of wonderful spinsters – as they say on their opening page, “Think of this as a conversation around the cauldron, a gathering space for women to spin together our […]

I don’t rightly know how I got here. Or at least. I couldn’t rightly tell you. My brain is telling awful fibs these days. But I am here all the same. I enter cautiously. Tentatively. Do I really belong here? It’s a question my mind pushes to the peak of the pile most days. But […]