Esraa Husain (any pronouns)

Esraa Husain (any pronouns) has been a member of Linktree for 3 years and joined in October 2022. Resources ebhusain has populated their site with include: • National Selection Panel 2026 - The Artist Prize by Zealous and Firstsite • Creatives of Colour Festival 2026: Opening Night of Poetry & Spoken Word • leapsports.org • Project: Migrants’ Human Rights • Migrant Rights Report Launch: Barriers to realising economic, social and cultural rights for migrants in Scotland • Migrants Rights in Scotland workshop - Scotland’s Annual Human Rights Conference • Migrants’ Human Rights Project - Video • Online and In-person Launch Events for A Migrant’s Guide to Scotland – Your Human Rights in a Different Country • A Living Archive: an interview with Esraa Husain on centring underrepresented voices in Scottish poetry with Eloise Birtwhistle (Oct. 2025) - Issue 6 Autumn - Wet Grain Poetry • On Screen & In Conversation: Exploring Immigration Heritage (Oct. 2025) - U Belong Glasgow x Scottish Civic Trust - GMAC Film - Glasgow • Poetry Workshop and Reading (Nov. 2025) - We Cant’s Keep Waiting: Take Action for Trans Healthcare - Scottish Trans - Eqaulity Network - The Pyramid at Anderston - Glasgow • Contributors Poetry Readings (Nov. 2025) - SINK launch: Unthemed - Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights and The Centre for Poetic Innovation - St Andrews University - Scotland • ‘A Stranger Here and There: On Mapping Belonging’ - SINK Magazine: Unthemed: An Anthology of Refugee Writing and Art (Nov. 2025) • Resistance = Solidarity = (Platonic) Love Radio Show (Nov 2025) - Book Week Scotland 2025 - Scottish BPOC Writers Network • Readings - Wet Grain Launch Party (Sept 2025) - Mount Florida Books - Glasgow • ‘On the Violence of Survival’ (July 2025) - Lumpen #15: Migration - Class Work Project • RRS x U Belong Glasgow: Carried Across: Art, Memory, and Exile (July 2025) - What Will Be the Cure? - Glasgow School of Art • Afro-Scottish Poetry Event (July 2025) - Afro Scottish events x U Belong Glasgow • Diverse voices to be highlighted at film event to mark Refugee Festival Scotland • Poets line up for special Refugee Festival Scotland event - What's On Glasgow • Javad Daraei: Two Dead Films and One Still Alive - Refugee Festival Scotland 2025 - The Cameo - Edinbrugh • Building Solidarity & Kinship: Short Film Screenings + Panel Discussion (Glasgow) - Refugee Festival Scotland - Kelvin Hall Cinema • Building Solidarity & Kinship: Short Film Screenings + Panel Discussion (Inverness) - Refugee Festival Scotland - Eden Court - Inverness • Building Solidarity & Kinship: Literary Performances + Community Meal (June 2025) - Refugee Festival Scotland - Listen Gallery - Glaagow • On ‘Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home’ by Amanda Thomson - The Bottle Imp • Curating Community Interview (May 2025) - Migrations Issue - The Skinny Magazine • U Belong x Inside Voices (May 2025) - Anuraq - Glasgow/in person • Team - Dardishi Festival 2021 - Glasgow/online • ‘My Heart is Weighted’ - The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature - Volume 5 (Oct 2025) • Poetry performance and writing workshop (Oct. 2025) - Eachdraidh Na Tìre – SQIFF - Glasgow • U Belong Glasgow: Creative Safety in Industrial Spaces (June 2025) - Scottish Civic Trust - Britannia Panopticon • Fighting Stereotypes with U Belong x Scot Civic Trust (Apr. 2025) - The Listen Gallery - Glasgow • Building Solidarity & Kinship: Movement Performances + Wellbeing Walk (June 215) - Refugee Festival Scotland - Scottish Refugee Council - Pollokshaws Burgh Hall and Pollok Country Park • Building Solidarity & Kinship: Creative Conversations with Aminatta Forna x U Belong Glasgow (June 2025) - Refugee Festival Scotland - University of Glasgow - Online • Flowers in the Fire Conversation at Refugee Festival Scotland (June 2025) - LUX Scotland - Eden Court - Inverness • Building Reclamation in Queer Heritage and Creativity + Community Meal (Feb. 2025) - U Belong Glasgow x The Scottish Civic Trust - The Listen Gallery • Football v Transphobia: intersections of racism and transphobia in sport • ReQuinha w/ Special Guests: Refugee Scotland Festival Preview (May 2025) - Radio Buena Vida - Glasgow • Working professionally as an artist in Scotland (May 2025) - Scottish Refugee Council - Online • EMPA 2024 Judging Panel - Edwin Morgan Trust - Scotland • Govanhill’s Stories Told Through Objects (Aug 2023) - Govanhill International Festival - The Community Newsroom/ in person • Esraa Husain x Spotlight interview (Jul 2023) - We Are Here Scotland - July 2023 • Community Session (Jun 2023) - Scottish Trans Conference: Care & Community - Dundee/hybrid: in person and online • Curating Discomfort Intervention Private View (May 2022) - Hunterian Museum/in person • Kuwaiti Boom - FONDS: Objects Speak Louder Than Words Exhibition Launch (Aug. 2022) - The Greater Govanhill Community Magazine - New Phoenix Cinema/in person • Curating Discomfort Launch (Apr. 2022) - Hunterian Museum - University of Glasgow/in person • Kuwaiti Boom - Govanhill Culture Collective Exhibition (Aug. 2022) - Street Level Photoworks/in person • Creative Network: BIPOC Community-Led Creatives Support Group (Dec. 2024) - Creative Lives - Scotland/ online • U Belong: Hear Me Out! Poetry and Spoken Word from Trans and Non-binary BPOC Creatives (Nov. 2024) - Scottish Trans Conference: Create & Change - Glasgow /hybrid: in person & online • Readings (Nov. 2024) - Future Creatives - School of Culture and Creative Arts - University of Glasgow • Love Bites: On Okra Stew article - The Skinny Magazine (Apr. 2022) • Out of Place, Out of Mind (Oct. 2024) - Counterpoints - Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival - CCA Glasgow • Poetry Reading (Oct. 2024) - Blossoming Wilt – SQIFF 2024 - CCA Glasgow • U Belong Glasgow x Pride Outside LGBTQ+ Woodland Wellbeing Festival (Sep. 2023) - Glasgow • ‘Step by Step’ travel writing - Elsewhere to Be: Stories from the Colony to the Tatras (Sep. 2021) - University of Aberdeen/in person • U Belong x LEAP Sports Festival Fortnight in Refugee Week Scotland (June 2024) - Glasgow Zine Library • How do we look after ourselves as queer leaders? (June 2024) - LGBTQ+ Community Leadership Gathering - Pride Outside CIC - Civic House - Glasgow • Poetry Reading (Apr. 2024) - BULB! Colin & Claire’s Secret Garden - University of Glasgow • ‘Damn Your Eyes’ short poems collection - Somewhere: For Us (Apr. 2021) • Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis (June 2024) - Porty Pride - Portobello Library - Edinburgh • Mutual Feelings: A Reading on Body and Place (Oct. 2023) - Civic Soup x Fruitmarket Gallery - Edinburgh/in person • Heritage, Power and Wellbeing in BPOC Storytelling in Scotland (June 2023) - U Belong Glasgow x Scottish Civic Trust - Transmission Gallery - Glasgow/hybrid: in person and online • QUEERY: Community Event on Queer Activism and Mental Health (Feb. 2024) - CAPS Independent Advocacy - Edinburgh • SQIFF x U Belong Interview (May 2023)- Bing Newspaper - University of Stirling • Queer Futures of Colour (Feb. 2023) - Aberdeen Performing Arts - Aberdeen/in person • ‘Weekend Thoughts’ poem - Hysteria Zine: LGBTQI History Month Edition (Feb. 2021) - Aberdeen • GYG present: Cracks of Resilience Creativity in the face of Systemic Racism (Aug. 2023) - Gallery of Modern Art - Glasgow/in person • Poetry Reading (Jan. 2023) - SHRILL - Glasgow/in person • Creative Conversation with Kokumo Rocks (Nov. 2021) - U Belong Glasgow x Glasgow Zine Library - Book Week Scotland Festival - Scottish Book Trust/online • Maud Sulter: Passion by Deborah Cherry book review (Dec. 2020) - The Bottle Imp - University of Glasgow • Ringwood Panel: BIPOC Writing in Scotland (June 2023) - Glasgow Mela 2023 - Glasgow Life - Kelvingrove Park/in person • Winter Showcase: Scottish Black Writers Group x Asian Writers Group (Dec 2022) - Scottish BPOC Writing Network - online • Introducing U Belong Glasgow (Nov. 2021) - MORE: Migrants Organising for Rights & Empowerment - Glasgow/in person • ‘22 Hours in Edinburgh’ photography poem - UniQueer Zine (Dec. 2020) - GULGBTQ+ Student Association - University of Glasgow • Making Space for POC Queer People (May 2023) - SQIFF - Macrobert Arts Centre - University of Stirling • Photography in Closeness zine (Dec. 2020) - Sapphic Writers Collective Online • Alternative Interviews: U Belong Glasgow (May 2021) - Daft Duo Comedy Show - Edinburgh/online • Uncomfortable Conversations in Safe Spaces (May 2023) - We Are Here Scotland - Rise Up! Festival - Aberdeen Performing Arts • Creative Conversation with Prof Zoë Wicomb (Mar. 2021) - U Belong Glasgow x Glasgow Zine Library - University of Glasgow College of Arts/online • Highland Midges 1 - 0 Me: Adventures in the Highlands travel writing blog (Oct. 2020) - Scottish BAME Writers Network • Week Feature: U Belong Glasgow (Mar. 2021) - Sapphic Writers Collective - Glasgow/online • ‘Home, Home’ travel writing (2020) - Gutter Magazine • U Belong Glasgow in See Me Represented zine (Jan. 2021 - See Me Proud - See Me Scotland/online • BUT WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? Spoken-word performance (Aug. 2022) - The New Mythology: Alternative Stories from Scotland - Blunt Knife Co. - Edinburgh/in person • Belonging in the North Conversation (Oct. 2022) - Northern Stories Festival - Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022 - Lyth Arts Centre/online • Photography in Calm After the Storm zine (Oct. 2020) - Sapphic Writers Collective Online • Spoken-word performance (June 2022) - Taking Up Space - Bonjour Glasgow/in person • Curating Discomfort Project - SGSAH Decolonial Methodologies Panel Discussion (Oct. 2022) - Postcolonial Fault-lines: Branching into the Unknown PGR Conference - University of Glasgow/online • 'What is it?' (March 2020) - UniQueer Zine - University of Glasgow • The Words We Are: Performance Poetry (Oct. 2021) - Edinburgh Multicultural Festival - Edinburgh/in person • Why Don’t Black and People of Colour Talk About Mental Health? (Jul. 2022) - We Are Here Scotland - Mental Health Arts Network Project - Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival/online • The Forbidden Grey Area article - Unootha Magazine (May 2019) • Hoop Dreams documentary (Jun. 2022) - Rainbow Glasgaroos - LEAP Sports Scotland’s Fortnight Festival - Glasgow/in person • Beyond the Screen conversation (Dec. 2023) - White Plastic Sky screening - Take One Action Festival - Glasgow Film Theatre • ‘August’ (Dec. 2020) - Mixtape: Writers of Colour Audio Anthology - Scottish BAME Writers Network - Scotland/online • ‘The Required Labels’ testimony (2018) - Kohl كحل Journal Press • ‘Hinted memories’ (2018) - Sekka Magazine • ‘Breakfast in July’ (Oct. 2018) - Unootha Magazine • We Are Here, but We Are not the Same (May 2022) - We Are Here Scotland - Rise Up! Festival - Aberdeen Performing Arts/in person • Poetry LGBT open mic (Jul. 2020) - Poetry LGBT London/online • ‘The Nightmares of April’ (2017) - Causeway/Cabhsair Magazine - University of Aberdeen • Spoken-word performance (Dec. 2019) - Poetry Inn Deep - Glasgow • Devolving Restitution (Dec. 2021) - Curating Discomfort Team - Hunterian Museum - University of Glasgow/online • Changing the Game film (Oct. 2021) - Trans Active Glasgow - LEAP Sports Scotland - Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Glasgow/in person • Transgender Day of Remembrance Reading (Nov. 2019) - GULGBTQ+ Student Association - University of Glasgow • Trans and Non-binary Writers in Scotland (Aug. 2021) - FREE PRIDE - Glasgow/online • Spring Edition Performance Night (Apr. 2019) - Hysteria Aberdeen • Creative Conversations Special Edition (Aug. 2021) - Moving the Centre PGR Conference: Toward Radical Futures - University of Glasgow/online • Queer, Aye! LGBTQIA+ Publishing (May 2021) - Society of Young Publisers Scotland/online • Transgender Day of Remembrance Conference (Nov. 2020) - GULGBTQ+ Student Association - University of Glasgow/online • Performance night (Oct. 2017) - English Literature Society - University of Aberdeen • Trans Food and Body Positivity (Nov. 2019) - Glasgow University Food and Body Society - University of Glasgow/in person • Literary open mic night (Apr. 2017) - Aberdeen Arts and Theatre Centre