A black and white photo of Nealob Kakar standing outside smiling directly at the camera. She is wearing a traditional beaded long sleeve Afghan dress, a lapis lazuli stone locket, and an embroidered scarf draped across half of her head. She has black shoulder length wavy hair framing her face.
Nealob Kakar
Nealob Kakar (she/her) is a Social Practice and Transformational Change PhD student at the University of Guelph. She is a Queer Afghan community-based researcher, storyteller, poet, fibre artist, avid crafter, and maker of all things. Nealob is deeply moved by the ways communities at the intersection of marginalization, specifically racialized 2SLGBTQ+ Survivors, practice care and mutual aid for one another in ways that colonial bodies of policy have not been and will never be able to. Her research aims to contribute to a body of knowledge that reconceptualizes the discipline of policy through critical community-based perspectives that rethink difference and radically re-imagine transformative futures of care.