Ayesha Chouglay
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Ayesha Chouglay is a writer and multimedia artist with a passion for storytelling. Her work often focuses on illness and disability, bringing emotion to overly clinical subjects, and opening up safe spaces for conversation. She is interested in the ways that disability changes our perception of the world, and works with perceived imperfections to create new ways of looking. She has shown her poetry and artwork in many spaces, including within a Poetry Jukebox at Belfast International Arts Festival, at Mr W et al, a celebratory event exploring art and disability in Hackney Wick, and in Deaf Experience, an online short film screening of work by deaf and hard-of hearing creators, organised by The Film Bunch. She enjoys working with other creative people, and has recently been working as the producer for the Creative Voices, Activist Voices Exhibition for Fun Palaces. Her background is in Fine Art, and she feels that this encourages new perspectives within her writing.
