Join us for an intimate conversation with Sabia Rasool, author and winner of the 2025 international Human Rights Essay Prize, as she presents her award-winning essay “The Blind Side”. Guiding the conversation is Kim Huynh, ANU academic, author and broadcaster, as we learn from Sabia's experience of living in fear, oppression and political censorship and her bravery to continue to choose to sing and share truthfully.

Sabia Rasool is a writer, editor, and researcher from Kashmir. Her work explores the intersections of memory, visibility, and state violence, often through personal narrative, oral histories, and cultural critique. She is interested in how people resist erasure through music, language, and everyday joy. Sabia has worked across creative media and is currently focused on curating interdisciplinary narratives from Kashmir. She believes storytelling can be both an archive and an act of refusal.

Sabia Rasool