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Mikail Khan is a Bangladeshi transmasculine queer Muslim communications specialist, writer, healthcare worker, print model, organizer, & film curator. They grew up in Dhaka for the majority of their life and is currently based in Lenape and Wappinger land (Bronx, NY). With a design and systems-oriented mindset, Mikail has worked in communications, marketing, fundraising, and programmatic areas in non profits and philanthropy both in New York and Bangladesh.

Mikail is invested in advocating for the liberation of trans and gender-expansive people of color through an abolitionist perspective. Drawing from personal history, their creative pursuits are driven by interrogations on gender, queerness, masculinity, geography, religion, and the politics of refusal. They organize with a few NYC-based grassroots groups to counter Islamophobia, Brahminism, and white supremacy. Mikail is a part-time curator with cinemóvil nyc and the Otherness Archive exploring trans culture.

Mikail’s writings, perspectives and appearances have been featured in places such as the New York Times, The Advocate, Pink News, Asian American Writers Workshop (The Margins), BBC Radio, Dhaka Art Summit, Gender Reveal Podcast, Bangalore Queer Film Festival, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Gender Reel Festival, Esquire Magazine, Xtra Magazine, শুদ্ধস্বর Magazine, NYC Trans Oral History Project, Community Centric Fundraising (CCF), New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (TGNB Health), and the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Mikail has also delivered presentations on trans activism and the need for liberatory South Asian spaces to undergraduate/graduate students at Columbia University, New York University, and Utah State University. They’ve curated and launched two film festivals, served on the selection committees for Bronx Council on the Arts and Gotham Week Project Market. Mikail was a former LGBT Young Leaders Institute Fellow at South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) and at BRIC Arts Brooklyn where they produced videos about the health disparities faced by trans kids and their families. He recently served as a Muslim Narrative Power Fellow at Muslim Counterpublics Lab and a Leadership Fellow at Brown Boi Project.

Between 2012-2016, Mikail was active in Bangladesh’s LGBTQ+ movement, and helped launch the country’s first and only National LGB Survey, documenting the discrimination the queer population is facing. Mikail remains rooted in the country’s trans politics and is the creator of Bangladesh Gender Liberation Project, a mutual aid entity that provides life skills and financial resources to Bangladeshi trans, non-binary, and intersex folks. Mikail also serves on the advisory board of the Global Resilience Fund that distributes feminist humanitarian aid to communities facing crises.