Sumaya Kassim is a writer, curator, and editor. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in a variety of publications including Dardishi Zine, Rusted Radishes, Middleground, The Good Journal and The Happy Hypocrite. Her nonfiction include the essays ‘Museums are Temples of Whiteness’ (Routledge’s Companion to Decolonizing Art History, 2023) and the widely cited ‘The museum will not be decolonised’ (Media Diversified, 2017). She speaks internationally on heritage, cultural memory, institutions and power, the history of secularism, and art history. She has written for the Sandberg Institute and Art History. Her essay ‘Write, Riot, Rest’ appears in the anthology Cut From the Same Cloth? (Unbound, ed. Sabeena Akhtar, 2021). She is prose editor of Middleground Magazine. She is currently writing two novels and other assorted writing projects.
She is also a songwriter, has produced multiple podcasts, organised literary festivals, has had work exhibited in galleries across the world, and has had many, many day jobs to make it all happen. Her heroes include Talal Asad, Claudia Jones and anyone running an indie bookshop.
You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @_sumayakassim
Sumaya Kassim 