ViolencePrevention | Law | Advocacy | FreedomFighter | Fibrowarrior | Survivor
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💞Survivors + advocates to the front💞

🛶 On a healing journey 
🛡Armed to fight for humanity 
🚨Researcher of gender-based violence, honor-based abuse, child/forced marriage, human trafficking, IPV, VAWG, FGM, spiritual abuse, domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, reproductive justice and how all that intersects with the law to better support survivors. 

☠️ DEATH to: white supremacy, cishetero-patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, toxic masculinity, toxic femininity, misogyny, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, gender norms, Islamophobia, racism, colorism. 

✅ Not intersectional? -Not feminism.

📍Oakland, California on Ohlone Land
🇺🇸 Cali raised, 1st gen, Pakistan born🇵🇰 
💃🏽 She/her
👩🏽‍🎓 B.A. Social Welfare, UC Berkeley ‘13
🤓 Forever learning + unlearning 🏞
🦁 Punjabi, iStandWithFarmers 🚜
🗣 Languages: *English, Urdu/Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish, Egyptian Arabic 🇪🇬 
🌈 Love is love. NO transphobia🙅🏽‍♀️
☮️ Practicing human, Muslim-raised🧕🏽
🌿Cannibas therapy💨 
♿️ Disabled, disability justice ⚖️ 
✊🏽Abolitionist, transformative justice🫀
♥️ Access intimacy 
🥄 About that spoonie warrior life. Living (and trying to thrive) with chronic illness- fibromyalgia, IBS, C-PTSD, sleep apnea, anxiety and depression. 
🍋 Food as medicine
🥑 Gut health, nutrition, biohacking
💎 Authenticity
🏃🏽‍♀️ Past multi full marathon runner
🏊🏽‍♀️ Now swimming for pain relief
☀️ Nature lover
🎨 Artist
💼 Previous work: college counselor, rape crisis counselor, restaurant management
🙋🏽‍♀️ Here to connect and grow with other fellow humans 

barira.rashid@gmail.com