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Fatimah Asghar


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Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer. She is the author of the poetry collection If They Should Come for Us and the chapbook After. She is also the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her work has been featured on news outlets such as PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 14,584 ratings · 2,101 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
If They Come for Us
4.23 avg rating — 7,930 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
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When We Were Sisters
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The End of Chiraq: A Litera...
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Everything is Going to be A...
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After
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My White Best Friend
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How’d Your Parents Die Again?
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Als wir Schwestern waren
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If they come to us
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“Everyone wants Kashmir but no one wants Kashmiris.
Aren't I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters to come.
I think I believe in freedom I just don't know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don't know where to look.”
― Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
tags: home, immigrants, kashmir, partition, separation, slaughter
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“Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers.”
― Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
tags: existential, poetry
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“How many poems must you write to convince yourself you have a family? Everyone leaves and you end up the stranger.”
― Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
tags: family, longing, poetry, sadness
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