(they/she) is an Iranian queer scholar, multidisciplinary artist, feminist educator, and former human rights lawyer with more than 15 years of commitment to social justice, queer liberation, and feminist activism. Aytak’s art/work/research is entangled with feminist, queer, decolonial, and anti-racist knowledge production and creative/art-based teaching practices. Aytak is a full-time day dreamer and a part time creator. If you don’t find them in their office splashing paint on canvas or chatting with their students about life, they are probably hiding in a corner typing disjointed rumination about queer futurity on a word doc!