Reem Sharif
Reem Sharif is a Transgender Rights Expert at the Ministry of Human Rights, a Gender Expert, a Trainer, a Motivational Speaker, a member of the National Youth Council under the patronage of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and laureate of the Youth Excellence Award conferred by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, she was titled as Transgender Woman Trailblazer at the Presidency, and she is Pakistan's first transgender police staff. Reem is also a trained classical Kathak Dancer and performs to express regarding issues of transgender persons.
Saturday 4th March
Trans in Pakistan: Vendetta, Visual and Village
This panel explores the interplay of Vendetta, Visual and Village for the transgender community in Pakistan. It questions the misconceptions continuously being tied to the hate campaigns against transgenders and khwaja siras as well as the forced erasure and bullying of the community. Ultimately the conversation will discuss how the community of care comes together to face of all this.