Furqan Mohamed

Artist

She’s also writing about or occupied by all things culture, translation, kinship, and abolition. Her writing has appeared in Canthius, Feels Zine, Vainqueuer, C Mag, Maisonneuve, and The Local, where she was an inaugural Journalism Fellow.
Her poetry has been featured as part of an artist residency with the inPrint Collective in collaboration with Mackenzie House museum, and the Poems in Passage initiative. Furqan previously split her time between facilitating creative writing workshops for students across the Toronto District School Board through the non-profit, Story Planet, helping to design the Lost & Found curriculum for the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation. Forever immersed in language, she currently works on sales and community for trace press, an independent publisher concerned with literary translation.
Furqan earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA) from the University of Toronto and is presently a Master of Arts in Child Study & Education (MA CSE) candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
She wants you to know she is firmly in the pocket of Big Child™ and is excited to be the 2025 Guest Curator for the Mayworks Festival, asking Who’s Afraid? of Labour Justice, reflecting on fear, alienation, and organizing in a month-long group exhibition at Charles Street Video (CSV).